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Ragnarok and the Administrative State July 10th, 2023.

Introduction.

In 1983, Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada by American troops, and the Caribbean

Island was liberated from its Marxist rulers, and event the Islanders still celebrate.

In one sense, it was just another American military intervention in Latin American affairs,

and what else is new.

But I would urge you to consider another aspect of the affair, and extract from these

events an encouraging and edifying lesson.

Let us consider it as a parable for our times.

One of the things that communism had going for it, there actually weren't that many,

was the fact that they had an optimistic eschatology.

That when combined with envy has a very long battery life.

Their worldview contained the doctrine that the advance of communism was inexorable,

and would not be stopped until the dictatorship of the proletariat was finally and fully realized.

Before it was a doctrine of economics, or classes, it was a doctrine of history.

As a Cold War kid, I remember growing up in a time when the Soviet Union was a fixture

in the cosmos, and when the much wealthier West, for some reason, felt like it has back

to the wall.

This was not the result of capitalist propaganda trying to keep our citizens in a constant

state of alarm over the commie threat.

It was actually the result of the power of an eschatological vision.

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