The core problem with the elites is that they think that they and they alone are enlightened and possess the intellect required to achieve a centrally planned utopia that solves all of the problems of the world. Unfortunately, one has to be very well educated to be that stupid. Human nature is deeply embedded and immutable as a result of millennia of survival against the harsh realities of life. Human nature is programmed to motivate a person to enhance one's position and the position of one's clan at the expense of others. In the context of a free market, this tension can raise all boats as the motivation to enhance ones position is often focused on providing valuable goods and services to others in a free exchange. In a centrally planned context, the only way to achieve the stated goal of utopian equality of all is through violence. Human nature runs completely counter to the stated goal of equality of all as those with more will not just willingly give their hard-fought position, be it material, financial or prestige. The self-appointed elites must force the issue through violence. Therefore, all utopian dreams inevitably devolve into violent dictatorships. It has always been that way, and it always will be.
I forgot to mention that it is this very same element of human nature, the desire for personal advancement at the expense of others, that drives the elites to always end up with all of the power and wealth in their equal misery for all dystopian utopias.
Words are powerful and can intoxicate ears that are unable to discern until the frogs who have all jumped into the pot of thought find themselves being cooked.
On that note, just the southern border crisis has become a glaring example of corrupt compassion. We’re repeatedly told that open borders is compassionate and reminded of this saying:
“Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
in reality it’s become:
“Give us your fentanyl, your gangs and rebels longing to take our freedoms so we can no longer breathe”
I really love this essay, even though I differ with the more apocalyptic aspects of it. As you indicate, there will need to be people coming together across divides in order for some kind of decent future to come into being. I used to be in the elite that you're referring to. I don't think I was a grifter or a parasite or a Pol Pot wanna be. I was just blind and unable to see beyond my own viewpoint and that of people around me.
What changed my perspective was running into kind, open-minded people from the other side who conducted themselves with honor. They showed me that my view of the right was wrong. That the line through good and evil doesn't run through political groupings, as some of the comments here seem to believe. It runs through every human heart (Solzhenitsyn).
The folks in the expert governing class believe they can engineer a more perfect future for humanity, and their fear of not getting it fills them with very nearly a sense of panic, which is what accounts for the disproportionate nature of things like TDS. Or at least, that's the way it was for me, when I ran with that crowd. I got tired of living in fear. I would bet the same underlying currents run through the left as a whole.
The world can't be engineered for perfection, even though engineering (as I know you know) is an extremely useful capability for more limited things, like providing a workable energy supply. I think that everyday experience inevitably teaches such lessons in pragmatism. I think most people will be willing to heed, in the long run, and we can then have a saner society than we have now.
It will just take enough of us standing up for the principle that a flourishing society is different than an engineered one. That the unruliness of free speech is a signifier for an even greater principle -- freedom is messy, but it's the only realistic way to be human. And to have peace, even though it's unruly.
I can't bring myself to be in this world based on terror of a techno-dystopian nightmare dictatorship, which is what I find so often in conservative discourse, as I myself become much more conservative. I think that kind of apocalyptic orientation toward life and the future rules too many of us who reject what the left is doing. I grew up under Ronald Reagan, who led the country with a vision of hope, for all of his flaws. We need that hope, not just for our country but for ourselves.
It's one of the things that keep us going in this life, not just in politics. Hope, faith, love. Against an empire based on fear, they are the greatest of instruments. We know this because those human gifts changed an empire once before. They came from the story of miracles not of this world. And the world changed. We have to hope it can happen again, even if we won't live to see it.
Spot on. Give no ground to these Globalizing Leftists.
It is amazing what one man - even accidentally - can do to change the world. For good or for ill.
Karl Marx is just one in a long line of self-hating Jewish brats just smart enough to perceive some societal ills, but too stupid to think through them clearly.
That drunk deadbeat who borrowed money with abandon from everyone he could with no intention of paying it back, used his tools of eloquence to bequeath a godless materialist vision which has consumed billions and led to the death of hundreds of millions.
Yet braindead Leftists keep marching to this pointless, godless drum. The "best" part is that 95% of them are so stupid, they don't even know the source of their miserable heathen nihilism which they have been told is compassionate.
The moron running for VP right now thinks Socialist means "being neighborly." Tell it to the tens of millions dead in Pol Pot's killing fields, the prisons of Communist Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, China and on and on.
The core problem with the elites is that they think that they and they alone are enlightened and possess the intellect required to achieve a centrally planned utopia that solves all of the problems of the world. Unfortunately, one has to be very well educated to be that stupid. Human nature is deeply embedded and immutable as a result of millennia of survival against the harsh realities of life. Human nature is programmed to motivate a person to enhance one's position and the position of one's clan at the expense of others. In the context of a free market, this tension can raise all boats as the motivation to enhance ones position is often focused on providing valuable goods and services to others in a free exchange. In a centrally planned context, the only way to achieve the stated goal of utopian equality of all is through violence. Human nature runs completely counter to the stated goal of equality of all as those with more will not just willingly give their hard-fought position, be it material, financial or prestige. The self-appointed elites must force the issue through violence. Therefore, all utopian dreams inevitably devolve into violent dictatorships. It has always been that way, and it always will be.
So well, stated!!!
I forgot to mention that it is this very same element of human nature, the desire for personal advancement at the expense of others, that drives the elites to always end up with all of the power and wealth in their equal misery for all dystopian utopias.
Pedophilia is the opiate of the elites
Words are powerful and can intoxicate ears that are unable to discern until the frogs who have all jumped into the pot of thought find themselves being cooked.
On that note, just the southern border crisis has become a glaring example of corrupt compassion. We’re repeatedly told that open borders is compassionate and reminded of this saying:
“Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
in reality it’s become:
“Give us your fentanyl, your gangs and rebels longing to take our freedoms so we can no longer breathe”
I really love this essay, even though I differ with the more apocalyptic aspects of it. As you indicate, there will need to be people coming together across divides in order for some kind of decent future to come into being. I used to be in the elite that you're referring to. I don't think I was a grifter or a parasite or a Pol Pot wanna be. I was just blind and unable to see beyond my own viewpoint and that of people around me.
What changed my perspective was running into kind, open-minded people from the other side who conducted themselves with honor. They showed me that my view of the right was wrong. That the line through good and evil doesn't run through political groupings, as some of the comments here seem to believe. It runs through every human heart (Solzhenitsyn).
The folks in the expert governing class believe they can engineer a more perfect future for humanity, and their fear of not getting it fills them with very nearly a sense of panic, which is what accounts for the disproportionate nature of things like TDS. Or at least, that's the way it was for me, when I ran with that crowd. I got tired of living in fear. I would bet the same underlying currents run through the left as a whole.
The world can't be engineered for perfection, even though engineering (as I know you know) is an extremely useful capability for more limited things, like providing a workable energy supply. I think that everyday experience inevitably teaches such lessons in pragmatism. I think most people will be willing to heed, in the long run, and we can then have a saner society than we have now.
It will just take enough of us standing up for the principle that a flourishing society is different than an engineered one. That the unruliness of free speech is a signifier for an even greater principle -- freedom is messy, but it's the only realistic way to be human. And to have peace, even though it's unruly.
I can't bring myself to be in this world based on terror of a techno-dystopian nightmare dictatorship, which is what I find so often in conservative discourse, as I myself become much more conservative. I think that kind of apocalyptic orientation toward life and the future rules too many of us who reject what the left is doing. I grew up under Ronald Reagan, who led the country with a vision of hope, for all of his flaws. We need that hope, not just for our country but for ourselves.
It's one of the things that keep us going in this life, not just in politics. Hope, faith, love. Against an empire based on fear, they are the greatest of instruments. We know this because those human gifts changed an empire once before. They came from the story of miracles not of this world. And the world changed. We have to hope it can happen again, even if we won't live to see it.
Nicely framed and spoken. Thank you. “Hope, faith, love. Against an empire based on fear”
Great observations! Thank you!
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Spot on. Give no ground to these Globalizing Leftists.
It is amazing what one man - even accidentally - can do to change the world. For good or for ill.
Karl Marx is just one in a long line of self-hating Jewish brats just smart enough to perceive some societal ills, but too stupid to think through them clearly.
That drunk deadbeat who borrowed money with abandon from everyone he could with no intention of paying it back, used his tools of eloquence to bequeath a godless materialist vision which has consumed billions and led to the death of hundreds of millions.
Yet braindead Leftists keep marching to this pointless, godless drum. The "best" part is that 95% of them are so stupid, they don't even know the source of their miserable heathen nihilism which they have been told is compassionate.
The moron running for VP right now thinks Socialist means "being neighborly." Tell it to the tens of millions dead in Pol Pot's killing fields, the prisons of Communist Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, China and on and on.