Again, one has to marvel at how dear Madeleine rarely misses an opportunity to tell us how we feel about things she doesn’t like. However, her vision of a “low-consumption economy†may not bring joy to everyone, entailing as it does “a dramatic drop in household consumption.†This unquestionably righteous end will, it seems, be achieved not by “the good intentions of individualsâ€Â, but as a result of “the government orchestrating a massive propaganda exercise combined with a rationing system and a luxury tax.â€Â
You first, Maddy.
The Roman emperor Diocletian was real big on sumptuary laws, and look how poorly that turned out.
I feel sad, can the Government buy me an Ipod for Christmas.
If you vote the “correct” way, maybe so.
The question that Frederic Bastiat posed a century and a half ago still stands: If I can’t be trusted to live my life correctly, on what higher ground do the reformers stand, to live it for me?
What a great day!
First I read Darleen’s post, and now this.
Where does one find this bim? Anybody have a URL for her? I’ve GOT to read more of her.
Perhaps I could find her at the Baltimore chapter of the NAALCP-maybe married to “Doc” Cheatham?
Lost Dog,
A selection of the works of Maddie of the Perpetual Sorrow
A middle class, Islington socialist.
Poor Maddy – so rich, so unhappy…..
That’s what she gets for living in Islington, the drippy, bourgeois wench.
EP-ATAY, MUTHA FUCKA!
But …but … but…
What will happen to all of those developing Asian countries if we start dramatically reducing our consumption of consumer goods? Where will all of those Chinese families send their unwanted children to earn some noodle wages? Is Ms. Bunting thinking about them?
Nay, say I! My kin and I shall continue to gorge from the unnecessary electronics teat and so support our developing fellow earth citizens!
FOR THE CHILDRENSES!!!
Silly BJ, when we stop our evil Western consumerism, the
inscrutable OrientalOther may return to hisNoble Savage waysnatural culture, which he really wants to do, but has been hypnotized by McDonald’s commercials and Rambo movies.No, no, Andrew. It’s too late for that. The children are actively engaged mining the lead for the toy paint and spraying the E coli onto the pet foods.
MS. BUNTING DOESN’T CARE ABOUT THE LITTLE BROWN TYKES!!!
Wow. Maddie’s so full of herself I’m surprised she doesn’t explode, showering the surrounding area with dripping, gooey monomaniacal self-righteousness.
Oh God. Have you ever tried getting that out of taffeta?
Dry-cleaning would be my first thought, preferably with the worst possible solvents, environment-wise.