by Sarah Hoyt
It is perhaps a feature of human life that the things you laugh at as a kid are the things you tend to be, do or think as an adult.
As a kid who was always very interested in both politics and economics, my favorite objects of derision were the gold bugs and the UN opponents. As we know more about the UN, from the rampant corruption that vanishes billions and manages to make things even worse in the third world countries and other kakistocracies in which it purports to intervene to child prostitution and exploitation of natives by UN troops or envoys, I find myself thinking the old guys who said "UN out of the US" were perhaps much brighter than I gave them credit for. (To be honest, unlike most of the kids today who are getting this soft-lit version in school and the idea the UN is some kind of super hero -- I never thought it was good for much but talk-talk, but I thought as such it was inoffensive, and perhaps a show of good will.)
As for the gold bugs... |