C.G. “Dustbury” Hill quotes some very perceptive comments on redecks and racism from David “Clubbeaux” Sims.
I do, however, have one quibble. Hill says “social engineering is to engineering what social disease is to disease….” A better comparison, I believe, is that it is what legal fiction is to fiction, or perhaps what military music is to music….
Hey, I like some of that military music.
Well, I do, too (of course, I like movies and not “films”), but I’m not sure it’s, you know, music. And that ain’t just whistlin Dixie….
Bite your tongue. Military music is no oxymoron. Some of the finest composers in history have written stirring marches (e.g., Elgar) and patriotic songs (e.g., Haydn). You are being deliberately provocative I think.
As for Hill’s comment, I laughed out loud and will remember the line. It is very apt. If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, most of the paving stones laid in that road in the 20th century were the products of social engineering.
For example, Communism, the ultimate in social engineering (e.g., the new Soviet man), was the poster child for more death and misery in less than one century than any other ideology in the history of the world.
If anything, comparing Communism to social diseases is unfair to social diseases. After all, there is a cure for syphilis and AIDS is treatable.
Which kind of “legal fiction” are we talking about here? Legal abstractions, such as corporations as “persons,” or references to “laws” which are themselves fictitious?