How Democracies Become Tyrannies:
The American Thinker asks, "Can a free people willingly choose servitude?"
The prophet Chesterton replies that it is usually a free people who choose tyranny, something we see from the Roman Republic to Weimar. Against Wells' notion that primitive man was a tyrant who ruled by force and fear and that democracy is a late development in our onward and upward march of Progress, he writes in The Everlasting Man:(Via Catholic and Enjoying It!.)
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Something to Worry About
So it isn't just me that perceives a slow slide into servitude:
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