| Monday, December 2, 2002 |
09:33 - This is an Intervention
http://innocentsabroad.blogspot.com/2002_11_24_innocentsabroad_archive.html#85731076
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Is this article by Collin May about his Northern homeland an accurate portrait? I hope not, but the evidence seems to support it.
Still, this sort of collective surrender to tyranny on the part of my fellow citizens doesn’t occur in a vacuum, there is a broader cultural context for this absolute lack of responsibility and self-respect on Canada’s part. As the National Post reports, in the name of inclusiveness and equality, Canada is progressively eliminating the freedom of its historic institutions, including the church. Canada is becoming little more than a vast humanitarian waste land, without substance, imbued with arrogant and unconsidered self-righteousness, and saddled with a detestable and corrupt government. And I’m afraid that Canadians like it that way.
It's a tragedy, really, if this state of affairs has come about as the result of a long-standing passive-aggressive backlash against all things American. After all, maybe I'm blinded by perspective, but... it seems to me we've done all right for ourselves, in the grand scheme of things, health care or no health care, two-party system or no two-party system. Seems to work for us.
If our solution has less architectural elegance than others, well... this wouldn't be the first or last context in which something that's engineered to be less than efficient turns out to be more successful than something that's been overengineered following the very best of intentions.
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