tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post732946037830692195..comments2023-11-03T07:23:30.909-05:00Comments on The Monarchist 2.0: Men and Principles - Part TwoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-64824610346054388812007-06-27T10:02:00.000-05:002007-06-27T10:02:00.000-05:00Kipling wrote (in part one ...): "The hysterical r...Kipling wrote (in part one ...): <BR/><BR/>"The hysterical reaction of the Canadian left to Free Trade with the US in the 1980s is a case in point. These patriots thought so little of Canada as a nation that simply because we would be buying more American goods, and have a few more of our companies owned by Americans, we would cease to be Canadian. Canada is a lot tougher than that." <BR/><BR/>And yet, we are - 20 odd years later - a weaker nation, whilst perhaps being a more affluent one. <BR/><BR/>Consider the decline of support for the Monarchy and the traditional institutions of Canadian nationhood over the last generation ... <BR/><BR/>perhaps our fuller integtation into American culture - via increased trade - has something to do with this. <BR/><BR/>Capitalism may be machinery, but even machinery needs to be retrofitted and repaired from time to time in order for it to work optimally and more efficiently. <BR/><BR/>But we must guard ourselves from letting the machinery become the system. The equipment is only a tool, and not our social and civic entirety. <BR/><BR/>Get my point?Aeneas the Youngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18235737108817968315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-85671039269519483082007-06-27T09:53:00.000-05:002007-06-27T09:53:00.000-05:00And once Great Britain lost its comparative advant...And once Great Britain lost its comparative advantage, Free-Trade became the very policy that greatly contributed to her relative (to Germany and the USA) impoverishment - which then contributed mightily to the weakening of the Imperial Bond.<BR/><BR/>Empire Free-Trade at an earlier stage, might have been the ticket.Aeneas the Youngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18235737108817968315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-59872586825427182112007-06-27T08:49:00.000-05:002007-06-27T08:49:00.000-05:00This is culturally-focused scholarship. No matter ...This is culturally-focused scholarship. No matter how many times I read through that political era, it's always a pleasure to refresh my knowledge of it.The Monarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10362198840081512460noreply@blogger.com