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Grand Bruit: Horseman, pass by

Grand Bruit, my mother's birthplace, remains one of Newfoundland's most beautiful harbours, but now without a school, come September.

In the cool evenings of August, as the visitors get down to their last few hours spent home in Grand Bruit, the passage of many eras will compound again, as it has so many times before.

My mother was an alumnus of that school. My father taught there.

The metropolian world moves on. 'Equalization' is another profanity that will not brave the winterlude in Grand Bruit.

Mark Steyn distillation

In our cafe society, there are always people who are willing to play social eunuchs to any dictator, to any brute force that offers to accomodate their elitism. Mark Steyn has no trouble understanding that ancient concept and its currency.

Hayek, F. A.: The Road to Serfdom

W.H. Auden called the 1930's 'a low dishonest decade'. While some may have fallen victim to this malaise, Friedrich Hayek did not. Five years into the war against the Nazis, he published a work of seminal insight and clarity. It bears reading and reflection today.

University of Chicago Press rightly touts one of its prized publications, Hayek, F. A.: The Road to Serfdom:

"An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy."

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Boswarlos Daily Revival

This is unlinked, other than to my own thoughts.

What keeps our central Western institutions firmly on a course for centralization of services? An intuitive response to the communications revolution that the microprocessor has wrought should lead to institutional satellites. Instead, the present reaction seems just that, reactionary, dedicated to re-paving the less travelled roads leading to the centre.

Metropolitan centricism is now taking on the shape of a social pathogen.