Would the plural form of Vox be Voxen?
Just for the record, I’ve currently got no major axe to grind with Vox Day in particular. I also want to apologize if my last post gave that impression — as I did link to a post by Unrepentant Jezebel from Christsploitation in which, as part of making her larger point about fake-libertarian Bush supporters, she attacked Vox by implying he was an example of same.
“It is a standard political device for fundamentalist Christians to cloak their true theocratic political agendas using the label of “libertarian.” Vox Popoli comes to mind here.”
I ignored that part in my post because the general thrust of what she was saying was in line with my overall thoughts on what I wanted to talk about — the matter of fake-libertarians who support Bush. In truth, I did feel a little disappointed in Vox because I just don’t happen to read his stuff as much as I used to and supposed I must have missed the news about him coming out for Bush. He’s apparently trying to set us straight, though, with this remark:
“I’ll admit to generally preferring Republicans to Democrats, but that’s like choosing between Helen Thomas and the rotting corpse of Eleanor Roosevelt. I’d no sooner vote for a member of the bi-factional ruling party than I’d take [either] Helen or Eleanor out on a date.”
Some good might come of this, though, as it seems to have provoked much discussion by Christian libertarians about how their faith and their politics relate, such as in the comments on Vox’s post and this post by MikeT on Blind Minds Eye.
Although I’m not a Christian, I do respect Christian libertarians to the degree they are authentically libertarian — a point I hope I conveyed adequately in “The Biblical Case for Anarchy“.
I still think UJ’s post was good overall, but it was regretable that she maligned Vox by implying he’s a Republican. The guy may deserve criticism from time to time, but not inaccurate criticism.
The larger lesson to be learned here is that sweeping generalizations often leave out fine-grained detail. The Vox in your head may or may not be an accurate model of the Vox that exists in the real world. That’s not a criticism of UJ, but rather a sorrowful acknowledgement that the Orwellian nature of the current state of political affairs has a lot of us on edge.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to reading Lenin’s “The State and Revolution“.
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