Welcome Back My Friends…
…to the show that never ends. As many of you have noted, I took a serious hiatus from posting. During my time away, I did a lot of writing, but was thoroughly unhappy with the results. I’ve missed you, though and so, I am compelled to return to share a few more nuggets of joy while I still can.
Instead of taking this opportunity to discuss the ever-apparent “employer’s revolt” where “less bad” is not better or that cheap money is sowing the seeds of the next economic crisis or discussing the increasing (yes, increasing) global meltdown risk (irrespective of the results of the upcoming so-called “Wall Street reform” vote),
or even the new health care responsibilities “entrusted” to the I.R.S.,I really just wanted to share with you a quote from Abraham Lincoln from his address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland on April 18, 1864:
“We can not fail to note that the world moves… We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.”
It is sad state of affairs that many feel the only winning move is not to play and that “going Galt” (where one refuses to lend one’s genius to the world) is logically perceived as the most rational course of action. And while Publilius Syrus’ (a first century B.C. Syrian slave) maxim “Bonis nocet quisquis malis pepercit- Whoever spares the bad, injures the good” is currently out of vogue, its return will very likely be at once stunning, vicious and unexpected.
We can only be kept in cages we cannot see.
Once the bad are no longer spared, and a rational risk/reward equilibrium restored, Publilius Syrus will smile and we will all come to know (or remember) who John Galt really is.