Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Judge ("Blood Meridian") on statism and the freedom of the Church
Well, not explicitly. But, it sure fits (from Ch. 14):
“The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.”
Doesn't that last sentence capture pretty well the attitude of a certain kind of illiberal, monist liberalism?
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/02/the-judge-blood-meridian-on-statism-and-the-freedom-of-the-church.html
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