Comic: Leonard Read in 'I, Leonard'

Peter Bagge | From the November 2021 issue

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Chumby 4 years ago

Leonard Part 6
1. Dillinger 4 years ago
  
  saw it in the theatre.
  1. The Encogitationer 4 years ago
    
    Doggone it, Leonard! Read a book!
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creech 4 years ago

"Forcing someone to do 'the right thing' doesn't make anyone a good person." This should be shouted from every pulpit every Sabbath Day service until the "do gooders" stop falling for every power hungry politician.
1. Brandybuck 4 years ago
  
  The best argument for drug legalization I ever heard was from a fire and brimstone radio preacher while driving through redneck Kern county in the wee hours of the morning. His basic argument was just that. Forcing people to be good does not make them good. Forcing people to be good usurps God's role. Forcing people to be good violates God's law.
  1. Mike Laursen 4 years ago
    
    I always thought the best argument, at least for parents who think drug laws are beneficial because they are worried about their own kids developing a drug problem, is: say your child does become a drug addict — do you want them to have legal problems piled on top of the addiction?
2. The Encogitationer 4 years ago
  
  The Pulpit-Pounders are the very "do-gooders" wanting govenment to force people to do what they call "good." Sooo...Faith-Healer, heal thyself?
3. StackOfCoins 4 years ago
  
  "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis
Roberta 4 years ago

My friend Bob contrasts Odin with Jehova, pointing out that Odin discovered and then gave us runes with which to learn "magic", while Jehova withheld his godly knowledge from Adam and Eve. I agree regarding Odin, but I take a more sophisticated (thought far from original) view of Jehova. Jehova was pleased by our ambition, and wants us to become like him, but wanted to show us we wouldn't get that way from a piece of fruit, and rather would have to work on gaining knowledge and on self-improvement. Unfortunately Jehova went on from there to do things that'd make anyone wonder why they'd want to be like him!

Although they call Odin All-Father, he doesn't assume the position of boss of the family over mankind, while Jehova, All-Boss, does.
1. Patriotic Guy 4 years ago
  
  Odin? He can’t even take on a Celestial.
  1. The Encogitationer 4 years ago
    
    Odin? Jehovah? They can't even take up spatio-temporal coordinates.
Brandybuck 4 years ago

Leonard Read is my favorite libertarian writer of all time. Some people came to libertarianism through Ayn Rand, or Murray Rothbard. For me it was Leonard Read.

When it comes to public policy, the question to ask is, "What would Leonard do?"
Alan Vanneman 4 years ago

"To paraphrase Voltaire, if God didn't exist I would have to invent him" is not much of a paraphrase. How about "Voltaire was right"? I mean, if you want to take this intellectual honesty stuff to its logical extreme.
1. Goateggs 4 years ago
  
  What Voltaire actually wrote was: "Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer." So really, *any* rendition in English is necessarily a paraphrase.
  1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.) 4 years ago
    
    Camille Paglia: What American intellectuals were doing was imitating the translations of Jean Paul Sartre.
  2. The Encogitationer 4 years ago
    
    Which translates as "If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him," according to m ylearning.
    
    Well, however it's put, Voltaire could have just saved his Mad Science Lab space. All Gods that man ever worshipped were invented. And who needs an invented God to do good?
Will Nonya 4 years ago

i didn't make it through all 412 pages of rambling nonsense. Not even good nonsense at that.
Mongo 4 years ago

My idea of a perfect evening is to sit at a bar, read comix, and get fuckin' smashed.
Apollonius 4 years ago

When you stuff 6 pages of story into 4 pages of comics, it has the same effect as paragraphs of ALL CAPS -- readers give up.
The Encogitationer 4 years ago

Leonard Read didn't look too happy with anything he did. And why did he look so scared with threats of boycott? IIRC, wasn't FEE backed by The Brothers Koch?
1. Mike Laursen 4 years ago
  
  Are you sure the Koch Brothers didn’t step in after the episode depicted in the comic, to replace the donors Read expressed concern about?
  1. The Encogitationer 4 years ago
    
    You're right. That could be correct. If so, I stand corrected.
    
    The Kochs did support FEE in the Nineties, The Double-Aughts, and today, but researching it doesn't say if they were there when FEE started.
Utkonos 4 years ago

Leonard Reed passed away in 1983. Fast forward to the summer of 1990 when I was at FEE for a week-long seminar. I happened to be sitting with the daughter of FEE’s then-current director (she was about my age) when she answered the phone and had to explain to a telemarketer that Mr Read was deceased. We both ended up chuckling over that.
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