Just As A Reminder, This Is How Utopian Regimes End

It was dazzling, was it not, the rebirth of a shattered Germany from the ashes of The Great War and The Great Depression? That young, charismatic leader who seemed to appear from nowhere, who had this magic touch about him; the ability to mesmerize, surrounded by equally brilliant men who carried out his vision of a Greater Europe.

Here is a gallery from Life Magazine, recently released photos of Berlin and The Bunker taken within a very few days of The Fuhrer's demise...the utter chaos and devastation juxtaposed with the banal details--the painting looted from an Italian museum, a molding SS officer's cap, the blood-stained couch where the final suicides took place, the shallow trench in the garden used to cremate the bodies.

It isn't as if we have not been warned. In one manner or another, either via the force of arms, or the inexorable force of mathematics, all utopian regimes--claiming the right and ability to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth at the point of a sword--all of them fail. Jefferson, Adams, Madison and company knew this, and labored to forge a Constitution and a path forward that would discourage Utopians.

OS hopes we pay heed, while we yet have time and grace on our side.

A Book To Acquire: Last Exit To Utopia

The rain continues to pour, so there actually a bit of time to read today--first time in over a week.

From the Acton Institute, an entertaining book review of John-Francois Revel's
Last Exit To Utopia

Revel can certainly write:

We had long been accustomed to the disasters of socialism, since it had never managed to produce anything but disasters anywhere. What had now become obvious was that it could not produce anything else. A liberating truth had emerged: Marxism had suffered from defective DNA all along.

Somebody, please, ring up the White House, and share the news with them...