Thursday, March 12, 2009
Random Thoughts
The basic philosophy of communism (and this would include today's trendy neo-comms) is that the rich have everything and the poor have nothing...and, it would be a better world if the circumstance were the opposite.
No matter how socially intrusive a leftist may be, they will always draw a line at the boundaries of their own liberty and independence.
The most sincere observer of oppression usually gauges status on a case by case basis.
When an intellectual uses the term, "The Masses," he or she basically means "Those who are not me."
It is the nature of government to not act in accordance with human nature but instead to compel something akin to the opposite of human nature. It is in this obvious folly that government intrusion is almost always a recipe for failure or the exacerbation of worldly problems. It is no wonder that those so enamored with the authority of government hate the free market in economics where human nature is afforded its widest expression.
A cult of personality in politics has never been a good thing – ramping such emotions up, on steroids so to speak, can only be worse.
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is akin to the difference between wanting your high school debate team to do well vs. wanting you school's soccer team to crack the skulls of the other team.
Socialism's solution to societal "weeds" it to simply outlaw flowers.
