James Brody
February 8th, 2009, 03:29 PM
Big things grow from little things but later suppress little things that aren't useful. George Will understands it: why can't our Congress?
"Darwin's rejection of premeditated design helped to validate an analogous political philosophy. The fact of order in nature does not require us to postulate a divine Orderer, and the social order does not presuppose an order-giving state. As a practical matter, we cannot expel government from our understanding of society as Darwin expelled God from the understanding of nature. But Darwinism opens the mind to the fecundity of undirected, spontaneous, organic social arrangements -- to Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek."
More at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/natural_selection_still_a_forc.html
Cc: James Gerlach, Bob Casey, Arlen Specter
"Darwin's rejection of premeditated design helped to validate an analogous political philosophy. The fact of order in nature does not require us to postulate a divine Orderer, and the social order does not presuppose an order-giving state. As a practical matter, we cannot expel government from our understanding of society as Darwin expelled God from the understanding of nature. But Darwinism opens the mind to the fecundity of undirected, spontaneous, organic social arrangements -- to Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek."
More at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/natural_selection_still_a_forc.html
Cc: James Gerlach, Bob Casey, Arlen Specter