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Entry: A Road Not Taken: Distributism Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_road_not_taken_distributism#19817 Post contents: I slavishly devote my time to throwing whatever diatribe I can at big government, thinking perhaps that with smaller government, the mutually aggrandizing quality of the current Big Government -Big Business crypto-syndicate will be hobbled and a more inspired individual within a civil society unleashed. However, one wonders if the citizen's social evolution has not now precluded any ameliorative effects from a reduction of the Bureaucracy. We do seem to be going the way of Europe (which is a howler when one considers the flesh-eating disease of our military budget) and a very large segment of the populace appears to be either unimpressed by the arguments against the current paradigm or , in fact, hostile to any substantial change.... besides the endless talk of change..... because they have come to enjoy the nanny state. It is safe, predictable and an evil they already know. Sad for them, the government is doing its level best to self-implode. Our social construct is thoroughly confused. Patriarchal militancy has resulted in the vast consumption of War Statism and indiscriminate exploitation while the ongoing feminization of the culture has led to the stultifying gridlock of Empathy and it's P.C. output. Meanwhile, the severe depletion of historically normative family life has resulted in the family abdicating it's stewardship role in favor of the various and sundry entertainments of the popular culture on the one hand or the deadeningly monotonous and homogenizing influences of large institutions on the other. One wonders, if a prudent change is even remotely possible.....aside from the kinds of precipitous changes disaster generate ....a kind of change often filled by the efficiencies of the strong man. A traditional definition of higher intelligence is a being that can simultaneously hold two conflicting thoughts without vapor-locking. As a species, we still retain this ability but the demise of authentically deliberative government would seem to indicate that we no longer feel the use of our intelligence to be fully required. In this context, reason would appear to be quite beside the point. Systems , such as Distributism require an underlying social construct that is stable, educated in a full array of forms of intelligence , reasoned and truly egalitarian. Though we reek of a kind of popular feminist empathy against a vast backdrop of violence and patriarchal militancy, this current society would appear to be about as egalitarian as your average toddler. Organized religion has not appeared to make any inroads in this vein with much of arena religion in the U.S. surrendering completely to the kind of aspirational consumerism that infects modern secular American Society. Funny enough, I see a kind of innate sympathy for many of the precepts of Distributism in my private interrelations all the time and so it would appear that a congruence of enlightened self-interest and egalitarianism are not quite so dead as latin. Being an amateur apostate, I had never heard of this Distributism and will enjoy learning about it while I loosen the choke on my shotgun from government alone to include the social construct as well. Thanks for the article Sent at: 2008 05 11