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Updated: 23 Jan 2002 |
P.J. O’Rourke may have begun literary life as a card-carrying, drug-using, bona fide hippy – as chronicled in Age & Guile – but in fact he is best known for his distinctly right-wing views, elegantly, hilariously, and convincingly, articulated best in All the Trouble in the World and Eat the Rich. A sample (from Age & Guile, p.227):
‘Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle.
‘There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.’
Hallelujah.
O’Rourke’s books include:
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