[lbo-talk] a sitdown with Chairman Bill

Mark Bennett mab at straussandasher.com
Mon Nov 14 11:23:08 PST 2005


Leigh Meyers


> William F. Buckley Jr. Opined:

"My view is unorthodox," Mr. Buckley says of the violence roiling the French suburbs. "It seems to me that a very hard dose of market discipline would distract the attention of the young revolutionaries from their frolics, traditional and otherwise, and my sense is that if they had to worry about how to eat, and buy food, they would stop screwing around and face reality. If these people didn't wake up in the morning thinking about what cars to burn -- instead of work -- they might not be having these problems."

That's it? That's the extent of his analysis?

In non-OED specific language, he's senile.

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How does this differ, in quality or depth, from any other analysis that Buckley has ever offered, at any age? The man is hardly a deep thinker.



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