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• Monday, April 27, 2009 08:44 PM

  But Didn't I see this in a Movie

  Isn't that how the Lord of the Rings ended...with the elves fleeing Middle Earth in boats headed for the West? I gotta tell em...Just like the Fountainhead is not a religious text, neither are those stories about Hobbits meant to be an outline for a political program. You've lost your free thinking groove by modeling your lives after authorized texts. See what happens when you link together with social conservatives too long? You stop being that secular right that I used to love to party with in college.

  You used to be so good with using logic and tried to find facts to keep liberals honest. Your belief in libertarian utopias used to be a good counterweight against liberal utopias...As Garrison Keilior once wrote in Salon..against the tendency of Democrats for putting up warning signs everyplace where the ground is not level and creating limited regulated spaces where cowboys could hoot and holler. But your support of the more totalizing tendencies of the social conservatives and their quest for authority over personal decisions that you give for the sake of getting a seat at the table has not served you well. Hopefully if you do go into exile, you'll get that free thinking groove back.

  —acenrockland Read acenrockland's other letters
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