... if not -- STRENG VERBOTEN! even if everyone loves it.
"Yes and it also gets back to the liberal paradox [...T]he rule is if it nukes the normal traditional status quo it’s allowed no matter how offensive the majority may find it and if it doesn’t, it’s strictly forbidden and punished if so much as a single person finds it offensive." ( -- my comment of 5/16, 11:09am)
Here, English political philosopher Roger Scruton mentions an instance of what amounts to the E.U. version of that paradox, or -- as it is called in this excerpt more properly -- that double standard:
"But there is a third double standard that can be perceived in the official policies of the EU when it comes to nationality. Where national sentiments pose a threat to the centralisation of power, the European machine is determined to extinguish them. Such is the case when it comes to Flemish nationalism, which threatens the very heart of the machine. Where, however, national sentiments serve to break down rival centres of power, the European machine gladly endorses them. It has dealt with my country as though Britain were a wholly artificial creation like Belgium, has encouraged Scottish and Welsh nationalism, and imposed on us an official map in which Scotland and Wales exists, but England is not mentioned, being merely the arbitrary sum of four independent ‘regions’ by which it is to be eventually replaced. Britain won the war, and established thereby its immovable place in our affections, a place that it cannot yield to a power-hungry bureaucracy situated in a once occupied country. The only way to destroy Britain, therefore, is to emphasize the rival loyalties that will blow it apart and at the same time destroy its center which is England."
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If it nukes the normal, trad status quo it's encouraged, and ...
... if not -- STRENG VERBOTEN! even if everyone loves it.
"Yes and it also gets back to the liberal paradox [...T]he rule is if it nukes the normal traditional status quo it’s allowed no matter how offensive the majority may find it and if it doesn’t, it’s strictly forbidden and punished if so much as a single person finds it offensive." ( -- my comment of 5/16, 11:09am)
Here, English political philosopher Roger Scruton mentions an instance of what amounts to the E.U. version of that paradox, or -- as it is called in this excerpt more properly -- that double standard:
"But there is a third double standard that can be perceived in the official policies of the EU when it comes to nationality. Where national sentiments pose a threat to the centralisation of power, the European machine is determined to extinguish them. Such is the case when it comes to Flemish nationalism, which threatens the very heart of the machine. Where, however, national sentiments serve to break down rival centres of power, the European machine gladly endorses them. It has dealt with my country as though Britain were a wholly artificial creation like Belgium, has encouraged Scottish and Welsh nationalism, and imposed on us an official map in which Scotland and Wales exists, but England is not mentioned, being merely the arbitrary sum of four independent ‘regions’ by which it is to be eventually replaced. Britain won the war, and established thereby its immovable place in our affections, a place that it cannot yield to a power-hungry bureaucracy situated in a once occupied country. The only way to destroy Britain, therefore, is to emphasize the rival loyalties that will blow it apart and at the same time destroy its center which is England."
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Long live free Flanders!
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