Sleeping With Lincoln
September 25, 2007
Usually I hate the pharmaceutical ads that festoon the TV programs I watch (a little too much truth-telling on the demographic!). But I love the sleeping-pill ad that features a sweet Abe Lincoln counselling an insomniac to “chill,” and take an expensive product of the drug-industrial complex.
Though Abe was anything but sweet–but rather a cold-blooded killer, looter, and dictator–this portrayal takes the federal god who founded the current regime out of his temple in DC, and off that pagan mountaintop, and therefore diminishes him.
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., former editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and editor of LewRockwell.com. He is the author of Against the State and Against the Left. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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