After MONTHS of waiting...

... Bill Whittle has finally posted a new essay, entitled "Rafts".

If you don't usually click the links I post, indulge me this one time and click this one. Whittle's essays are long (thus "essays" rather than "posts"), but they're worth it. He does an excellent job of putting things into perspective.

Just a snippet:

Hindsight is 20/20. We can always look back at our wake and see where we have been; the challenge is to know where we are going. Predictive value would be nice. So here’s a better example of how we can use this kind of mental rigor to cut through competing maps of what is happening out in the real world.

Socialist intellectuals will tell you that Cuba is a model nation: universal free health care, near total literacy, and essentially no gap whatsoever between the rich and the poor. They call it an island paradise where brotherhood and compassion reign in stark contrast to the brutal inequalities of the heartless and racist capitalist monster to the North, ruled by it’s Imperial Nazi King, who is the devious mastermind of all manner of Conspiratorial Wheels and also a moron.

Capitalist intellectuals -– and there are not many, since most of these people have jobs -– argue that Cuba is a squalid, corrupt, poverty-ridden basket case, a land of oppression and secret police and torture chambers run by a megalomaniac who practices the most idiotic, inhuman and degrading economic system ever invented.

So here we sit in the chartroom, with our competing maps. What to think?

And anyone who can jab Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Noam Chomsky and Fidel Castro in the course of one essay - and keep it coherent - deserves a read.

Go thou and believe:

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