A masterful essay by
Gerard Van der Leun (reprinted from last year, but still unfortunately pertinent).
The whiff of American weakness always emboldens the unspeakable visionaries.
One of the things that "the vision that dare not speak its name" will neither speak nor confront is the present existence and inexorable rise of systems of government that do not exactly wish to deliver the higher realms of personal, sexual, and wantless liberty the One Worlders envision. Free societies are not the default state of how humanity organizes itself. Free societies are rare and always in danger of being overwhelmed by the more evil angels of our nature. That is the historic and present reality of our world. Reality, however, seldom intrudes on our dreams of a perfect world. When it does we call them nightmares. And what we learn from history is that these nightmares are recurrent.
