Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a
problem. The problem is, Truth has been dis-proven Now I know that a
number of folks here will call BS on me and say that I must be
talking about Religion, so it is not a valid argument.
I'm afraid I would answer in the
negative. This is not about God. This is about Reality. The problem
is-- people have ceased to believe in principles. Not that they don't
have them-- they certainly don't believe they
have them. The problem is, they don't believe that they
are real. That is, they feel
they understand the fundamental truth that principals are no
different from empty rhetoric and the elaborate sophistry they claim
to believe in. So you can make the most logical and well balanced--
even persuasive argument that can be made-- and it will have no
effect, because your audience will simply ask, with a sneer-- “So
what is truth?
And, what's in it for me?"
You
see, the Enemy simply offers the average person what they want, then
asks for what they want in return. All they have to do is say, “Ok,
we'll give you a free ride. Now, you give us a vote, and we will make
those fools who want you to work-- pay for their insolence. We'll
keep you safe from guilt, from necessity, from pain. All you have to
do is vote for us, and you don't even have to think for your self--
and you can feel
virtuous doing it-- because we
know what is best for you, and for all.”
The sad part is, because the people don't ultimately believe anything that anyone tells them, the Left doesn't even have to keep their promises. It is just the promise of the free ride that does all the work.
They already know already that what they use as
persuasion is ultimately empty rhetoric. You can see it in the
Abortion argument. No matter what side you happen to fall on
personally, you can learn quite a bit from it. That is, “So
what if we are taking a human
life? What are you going to do about it? It's legal and most people
agree with us. We are in charge. So there.”
It doesn't even have to be a majority anymore. Just enough to count.
THAT
is the current core argument for the “pro choice” crowd, who are
no longer the pro-choice crowd. Because, now they even admit that
what they want you to
do is have an abortion-- not have a choice.
Say
what you like about my
take on this particular argument-- I still say that this winning
argument will crop up in other parts of our so-called national
dialogue between the Left and the rest of us.
I'm sorry, we aren't a
coalition, and I'm not going to pretend. The only thing that unites
us is the knowledge that what is going on here is wrong and that
something needs to be done about it. That what the Founding Fathers
did was right-- and what is happening here is a flagrant violation of
those hallowed principles and ideas. Beyond that we'd fight like hyenas in j-random bar or
cafe. But. At the end of the night, we'd shake hands and go our
separate ways. Why? We both believe in America, and our ideas
about America are
pretty similar, if not identical.
Even so, we
can't offer the other side what they want. They don't want freedom,
they want free beer. The closest thing we have is free software--
and even that takes
work (knowledge and mental effort), so they don't want that either.
They don't really understand what we
mean by freedom-- and they mostly don't care. Because it's not about
getting free stuff, and they
don't understand what we get
out of what we believe.
That
is why universally they have to call us bigots and class oppressors--
because that is the only conceivable benefit they can imagine to our
system as we describe it. It must
be about power over, because personal power is so much a given that
they don't even see it when it is taken away. As long as you don't
touch the U-Verse, the endless promise of food, stuff and license--
those laws don't mean squat. After all, someone has to be around to
enforce them. If you go to the welfare ghettos, no one really is
until someone dies-- and sometimes, not even then.
Who's
going to enforce inconvenient laws against those who keep you in
office? All the better to extract fines and inconvenience from those
whom it is beneficial to harass. We live in a unique period in
history where the class that is most protected is the class that is
the least important in
the grand scheme of things. It is the enemies of Control who are
important, and where the attention is spent. As long as they keep
sprinkling cash, entertainment and contraception on the throbbing
consuming masses they can be left well enough alone. They won't bite
the dog that feeds, clothes and protects them from effort.
The
Left will not cease to have support until it becomes onerous or
inconvenient to support them. Until the point is driven home that
their rights are not just vaporous changeable ideas, but things that
are profitable to believe in. You know, things that mean
something. They have to learn that something
means something first,
and that's a long row to hoe.
So the
only way we are going to make real headway is to come up with the
answer that proves false the assertion:
Who
wants a free world when you can have a free ride?
I'm
afraid they won't recognize the limited nature of reality until it
is too late.
This
is why freedom is not enough. Or perhaps, I should say, we have to
prove that freedom is real.
That liberty is a real thing. That sacrifice is not just an empty
word. We have to go back to Aquinas-- or perhaps before Aquinas. We
can't assume A=A-- that alone is a tough sell these days. After all-- who
cares, and why does it matter?
For
me, it was all about finding a reason to continue breathing. I
discovered that the Leftist paradigm ultimately leads to a futile and
meaningless existence in a frustrating perpetual childhood. There is
nothing to risk, so rewards don't mean anything. Because you can't
believe anything anybody says, there can't be any truth, so even
looking is pointless.
But I
couldn't stop looking, because deep in my core I knew there just
had to be a truth. I
wouldn't be breathing otherwise, and there would be no reason not to
stop-- save the momentary inconvenience of people who cared for me,
loved me and raised me. But my heart screamed that there had to be a
bigger reason than
that. Don't get me wrong-- despite evidence to the contrary-- I did
love them. I had even convinced myself that my being absent would be
to their benefit-- and I still loved them.
But the heart wants what it wants. We
often take on burdens like children for reasons that don't really
make sense. That love thing gets in the way of making the sensible
choice of living for one's self, and making filling one's gullet and
partying until you drop much easier. The problem is-- those sensible things
don't satisfy. At the end of the day, you still want more.
NO,
I'm still not talking about religion. It is very hard not to, at
this point, because that's how I got here. But it's still not where
I'm going. But there could be a clue here as to where we might go next to be fishers of the self-motivated. Because those deeper desires override even laziness, myopia and ignorance-- even the willful kind.
Human
beings need reasons. We need concrete things. We have to believe the
evidence of our senses, or we become neurotic, reactive and
depressed. I believe that the closest the modern child gets to a
real risk and reward environment in this day and age-- is the video
game. (And, failing that, gang culture. But I digress.) And that is why they are so massively popular-- above and
beyond the immersive experience, or the sensation of being in an
imaginary world. Because you don't have to use the imagination to get
there-- but then, you don't have the freedom to imagine what you
want.
Truthfully,
I'd rather have a book than a video game. Not only am I old
fashioned that way, but I want to control
the experience. No one will ever beat the megapixels of my mental
images-- no mater how fast our technology grows, nor how reactive to
my desires it becomes. It is exactly as real as I want it to be, no
more and no less. The fun part is that I don't know where it is
going, but I know what the main character looks like. It is even better than a movie, because, while you know only what the author wants you to, you control the camera, and you can blur out the parts you don't want to linger on.
But I
am unusual. I don't mind making an effort to get what I want-- even
if I am lazy. But knowing that, I can be constructively lazy, and
make it work for me. That is what puts me on the nerd/geek
continuum. But there is a reason why the geek/nerd is popular right now-- even among non-geeks. It does relate, to a lesser degree, to human nature.
We all
know that the mother of invention is not perspiration or
inspiration-- but laziness. It is the latter two that get us off of
our couches and into our workshops, so we can spend more time later
in our easy chairs. But how will we ever inspire a generation who's
biggest accomplishment is collecting a welfare check? Most of these
people have never learned to defer gratification for anything more than
a twinkie.
Now, I
recognize that perhaps even converting a few won't really help us. We also can't really convert
those who are at the top, feeding the system either. Because they
feed it not only to feel good about themselves, but also to
have power over others. They
don't believe the rhetoric either. They probably don't believe that
truth exists either-- but they will get what they want
anyway. Clearly, as they see it, the only way is
cheating.
The saddest part of
all, is that they don't believe that anyone has the power of creating
their own stuff, that the only way to get it is to take it from
someone else. That is the grim part behind Obama's “You didn't
build that”. Unfortunately, the folks he was actually talking
to, believed him and thought he was speaking a profound truth.
They don't believe you can
build anything. There are whole cultures that revolve around this
philosophy, and they tend to get gnarled up in self-perpetuating
violence pretty quickly. That is the dark side of most hunter
gatherer cultures.
Indeed,
I believe that the whole thing is just a ruse-- a fog of talking
points to distract us while they take everything away. As long as we
are still talking, and we
are not doing, they are free to take whatever they want away from us
while we do it. We also make ourselves easy targets, and then they
know who is too dangerous to live. They can't kill too many of us
too soon-- because we feed the system. But some people get
impatient-- and making omelets always involves breaking some eggs,
right?
Ironically,
thanks to contraception and abortion effort, there aren't enough of
us to feed the system right now. But as long as no one believes in
truth, no one has to see or acknowledge that fact. So the next ten
years should be real interesting. Perhaps opportunities will arise for reality to re-establish itself in the minds of man. I just hope we can wait that long. So I guess, until then, we must demonstrate and try to teach truth as humanity has discovered it.
1 comment:
Very Lucid argument and Description
of "The Democratic Plantation", those they deceive have no moral convictions or even cogent abilities to see what You present. This is Fact. Parts of Your observations bring to Mind Eclessiastical revelations, But, once God is removed from Society and Culture, and You have Demons running the Government, Voila.
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