Once a guy has written…

“The dreamers, like the Pope and his allies, would destroy genuine, realistically possible love of some few people for the sake of the shallow kind professed by politicians and celebrities” do we ever have to take him seriously on anything he ever says about anything in the world again?

Carl Olson takes a look at a triumph of hysterical libertarianism over rational discourse. Libertarianism is good medicine for the disease of statism. But if you take it in excessive quantities, it becomes addictive and starts to impair your judgement to the degree that you start hallucinating fantasy scenarios like “Pope Benedict wrote Caritas in Veritate because he just wants to sit at the Cool Kids’ Table with Susan Sarandon and Barack Obama.”