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Salvador Dali, monarchist and anarchist, and consequently opposed to a consumer society, is naturally against automobiles, to which he prefers a triumphal chariot…

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• What Iran’s Jews Say: “Let them say ‘Death to Israel,’ I’ve been in this store 43 years and never had a problem. I’ve visited my relatives in Israel, but when I see something like the attack on Gaza, I demonstrate, too, as an Iranian.”
• Futurism at 100: “Futurism in all its aspects and effects should not be lightly dismissed as one of the weirder footnotes of 20th century cultural and political history. It still has the capacity to amaze and shock; and it still has many adherents. The messages of Marinetti and his allies gained traction in times of great popular tension and privation. As we now enter the first great recession of the 21st century, could a new variant futurism catch on?”
• The Prophet of the New Russian Empire: Aleksandr Dugin calls for world war, and he’s got the ear of the Kremlin.
• Horst Mahler- Red Army Faction founder turned German nationalist- convicted and sentenced to six years in jail for the thought crime of “Holocaust denial”.
• Quintessential British pastimes are being replaced by modern customs like blogging, social networking, weekly pub quizzes and curry nights. Say goodbye to afternoon tea, parlour games, hopscotch, Sunday Best clothes, Morris dancing and diary keeping.
• Kafka and His Critics: “the bureaucratization of society establishes order without rationality, speeding the satisfaction of the state’s appetites without benefiting the individual.”
• Nanny State: France defies its heritage to condemn alcohol.
• Jesus was a reformed racist, says Anglican Church of Canada.
• Mule Skinner Blues: Yes, so-called mule skinners – in this case, seasonal workers who dress in colonial garb at a historical park in Easton, Pa. – need Homeland Insecurity background checks!
• Sales of Atlas Shrugged Soar: “Americans are flocking to buy and read ‘Atlas Shrugged’ because there are uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day.”
• Henry Rollins on Mishima & Iron: “Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.”

Dan News Briefs

The marriage of reason and nightmare that has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear weapons systems and soft-drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century–sex and paranoia. [...] Options multiply around us, and we live in an almost infantile world where any demand, any possibility, whether for life-styles, travel, sexual roles and identities, can be satisfied instantly.

Dan Quotes

• Forward Area - Interview with America’s only Social Nationalist Punkrock Band.  Otto Strasser meets Johnny Rotten.
• George Orwell, “Tory Anarchist” & “Third Way” socialist: “Any reference point for Orwell’s politics has to be British, indeed, even more precisely, English, since that is where, despite his internationalism, he drew his political inspirations.”
• James Burnham on Our Managerial Class- The managerial society will be promoted as the salvation of mankind ushering “in an age of plenty, sweetness, and light such that no man in his senses could do anything but welcome with rapture the prospect of the future.”
• Capitalism 24/7: Will the Recession Doom the Last Sunday Blue Laws? God forbid we go one day without shopping!
• The Anti-Bono: Q&A with African anti-Western “humanitarian” aid activist Dambisa Moyo.
• Reality TV goes Amish. Television cameras have the power to undermine even the  most closely-knit community but the reviewer, unfortunately, misses that point entirely.
• Carl Schmitt, anti-Semitism, and liberal democracy: “Schmitt was an exceptional thinker who, for his time, had an unexceptional prejudice [...] To smear all of his ideas on the basis of his political activities in the Thirties, however, would be like dismissing a humane diet because Hitler was a vegetarian.”
• Was the Tri-Racial, Crypto-Muslim “Tribe of Ishmael” really a romantic leftist myth? So says Nathaniel Deutsch in Inventing America’s “Worst” Family, reviewed in both Reason and the Wall Street Journal. The original story is also summarized here. And yet, says Reason’s Jesse Walker, the story does contain a kernel of truth: “The Ishmaels were, by and large, independent Americans, and they weren’t eager to embrace any effort to raise their station that would diminish that autonomy.” Am I the only one inclined to think that Deutsch is a bit of a spoilsport who should have left this exotic myth- this Curio Americana- alone?
• Draft Dodgers: For DIY brewers, Prohibition lasted until 1978. But once unleashed, they revolutionized the industry (i.e. the U.S. boasts 1,463 breweries, including 975 brewpubs).

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The libertarian movement is too decentralized, and libertarians themselves too ornery, for all of us to choose one path. But if we let a hundred flowers bloom, some of those blossoms may well to bring us closer to liberty.

- Cutting the Gordian Knot 1996

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