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Why You Can Ignite Your Right Hemisphere in South Dakota While Railing Against Libertarianism. And Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and J. D. Salinger
Distributism recoils at libertarianism. If I hear one more distributist declare Tom Woods a heretic because he doesn’t think the State should kneecap every business with more than one employee, I’ll go Rothbard on him.
A Catholic needs to accept the truth about distributism as much as he needs to accept the truth about global warming.
Sure, distributism has a much longer history (the distributist triumvirate: Rerum, Quadragesimo, Centesimus), but economics is still not a matter of faith and morals, unless you’re packing so many considerations into “morals” that even double parking or providing cheap toilet paper to the poor becomes a matter of mortal sin.
I say that, even though I consider myself viscerally distributist, kinda like I’m viscerally a drunk. I’d be drunk all the time if I could be drunk all the time. Whatta glorious existence that would be, just like the Shire was a gloriously…
