The fashionable Italian clothing designer, Brunello Cucinelli, has a full page ad in the current New Yorker. Its sole written message is this: “The State is the actuality of the ethical idea.” Is this man suggesting that the pinnacle of morality is to be found in the principled standards set by Hitler, Stalin, or even Attila the Hun? Do the ethics of the current American state — whose leaders announce their rightful authority to torture, imprison, and murder whom they please, and who are eager to unilaterally declare war upon any nations that satisfy their whims — further inform his … Continue reading Foolishness in Expensive Clothing