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November 25, 2024

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Freedom From Want
Norman Rockwell

At the risk of skewering an icon of 20th century Americana, I find this piece to be insulting in its assumptions, and not-so-subtly contemptuous of traditional America...and American Exceptionalism.

Our founders fought and died to protect and guarantee our God-given natural rights from the depredations of government. But the expansion of those rights into needs and desires and wants trivializes our true rights and creates the conditions for exactly what we have today...a huge and unaccountable government that is intrusive and demanding while it purports to satisfy those needs and desires and wants.

I'm not calling Norman Rockwell a crypto-communist, but this is a rare misstep in a long career that is marked by his respect for and celebration of America.

posted by CBD at 09:30 AM

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