Thank you for sharing this fascinating essay. Failed education in the US and the abandonment of STEM has been carefully designed to create an army of useful idiots. They can't foresee what happens to them after the socialists have control. Permitted looting = the end property rights. The government's internet takeover and widespread censorship = the end of honesty, free speech and privacy. DEI = the end of healthy and productive competition. Corrupt leftists judges = the end of law and order and the beginning of tyranny. It's all becoming perfectly clear.
Scott. Great comment. Funny I read this and thought about the US far right. You thought about the US far left. My main thesis is the politics and ideology is not a line but a circle and the further you get out on the fringes, the closer far right and far left viewpoint actually collide.
This article was amazing but shows our system is being hijacked by the minority extremes and the expense of the majority folk with common sense just trying to live their life.
Thank you. Such an interesting comment, and one that I didn't think about. The collision you mentioned makes sense. My morning "go-to's" today are often Barri Weiss, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Shellenberger, and I didn't foresee us landing so frequently in the same camp.
Yes, starting with personal freedoms, rights and responsibilities of a Republic, if you proceed to the left you end up with a democracy then socialism, if you move to the right you also end up with a democracy then a move to fascism but in both cases, it is pretty much the same when you circle back. All in all, this devolution is called collectivism and we as people end up with NO rights.
So are you saying we should all go get a STEM degree and this would solve everything?
What I see in you comment and those that replied are a clear, succinct grasp of the problem, but little idea of a solution.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." That is a wise statement that would apply in our current situation. We are way beyond "prevention" at this point. Going back and talking about what we should have done is only beneficial if we apply the lessons learned to the present. Example: All the videos that show parents reading pornographic literature found in public school libraries to school boards and demanding that they be removed..........turn right around the next morning and help little Johnny get ready to go back to the same school.
Talking to a school board about what they already know they are doing is NOT going to change anything. And the porno stuff is the obvious rot taking place, but you can bet there is a ton of other things going on at the school to rot those children's minds. If they will blatantly use that filth in their literature, just imagine what they are doing otherwise to those children's minds.
There is only one solution to this madness. It is the same solution for a house that is infested with cockroaches or termites. It is the only solution there has ever been throughout history. We are way past talking about other solutions like voting, protesting, and taking STEM classes as forms of solution.
Outstanding essay which will be read by very few (present company excepted). The slow march to our collective destruction is being witnessed with horror by those who grasp the enormity of what is going on. The dismantling of the current order will not be replaced by utopia but by the hell of disorder.
The hard part in sharing is finding people who are close enough to the truth (and maybe brave enough) to see it. Many are so lost they will follow their hero’s into oblivion.
The "Road to Serfdom" should be required reading in high school. That Reader's Digest published it for readers in the 1950s tells you how far we have fallen with our literacy rates. (I include myself in this pool.) I look forward to getting the "Fatal Conceit." I tell people we are no different than ants. We signal expectations to each. Anyone who thinks they are above low expectations is a fool. Recently, I was in a drugstore to get lip balm. The store was dingy with no employees in sight. As I reached for the balm, a thought popped into my head, "Just put it in your pocket - payment isn't expected." I felt like my mind was tapping into a signal. I snapped out of it, paid for the item at self-checkout, and left. The next stop was at a Trader Joe's where the thought of stealing would have been an absurd transgression of the communal vibe. In SoCal, officials pontificate about how horrible Jan 6th was, but not the destruction caused by the riots. Small business owners lost everything, but I am to cry because Pelosi and others felt unsafe. This is the signal: officials and their property are sacred, but not that of the citizens. We are mere fodder for their appetites.
I challenge anyone to read Romans chapter one........please use the King James as it is not some watered-down, dumbed-down version........and tell me it is not an EXACT description of what is going on in Western society today. Here is an excerpt.......and by the way, it is way above and beyond Hayek.
18" For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:"
Simple "cause and effect" on display. Cause: deny God and His plan for humanity; effect: become a fool without the ability to distinguish right from wrong......or even think logically.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
(Cause and effect.)
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Thank you for this illumination and insight. I found these quotes that seems to apply. “Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.” -Jeffrey Fry and “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” -Winston Churchill
Anyone who writes or thinks that man developed his own moral code is an idiot in the extreme.
We are getting a small taste of what it is like for humanity to sit around and dream up a "moral code." Whether one is an individualist or a collectivist matters not in this regard.
People become collectivist because they are spoiled, lazy, and afraid of individual responsibility. The collectivist, public school is the breeding ground of the communist attitude in America today......and that goes for the overpriced, overrated University system as well. They are the foundational promoters and finishing schools of the idea that "we are all in this together" mentality. They are the training ground that teaches people not to think but rather to fill in a blank with the proper, provided answer. Once you have memorized the proper, provide answer, and immortalized the one who gave you the answer, then you feel you have no need to extend any mental effort past that point. You have become a socialized, automaton drone or society.
Hayek was a fool, and so is anyone that follows his teaching........because he looks for the solution with in the problem itself. Mankind is incapable of solving the problems pointed out by Hayek. We have thousands of years of history that show that societies sooner or later devolve into exactly what is happening to America. There is a clear fundamental reason, and it is NOT because man is just not smart enough to figure it out. The same destructive forces destroying America are the same ones that are well documented to have destroyed Rome 1500 years ago. Have we learned nothing? Are we as dumb as they were back then?
We are about to face "Biblical" consequences in this country. There is a reason we have the term "Biblical." Sitting around today and denying the power and forces that are beyond humanity's ability to control or solve is just to be willfully stupid. God created a man and a woman. The brightest, most educated, minds in the halls of leadership and education today, will tell you there are dozens of genders. I have heard lawyers, doctors, professors, scientist, and lauded geniuses make the claims of multiple genders; outright say that a "man can be a woman." What we are witnessing is the mind or man at war with the mind of God. That war has never and will never end well for mankind.
I am with you on this. Where are the disciplinarians that were instrumental in our prior generations; in schools, churches and other civic clubs? I search often for dignity, respect, honesty and integrity.
Perhaps it is time to bring back mutual respect and etiquette. We used to have a civilized and dignified order. I miss the inspiration of those teachers and elders that I looked up to. We worry so much about material possessions when cleanliness and Godliness are free and would open so many more doors. I appreciate your thoughts and the thoughts of the epic Frederic Hayek.
Thank you for sharing this fascinating essay. Failed education in the US and the abandonment of STEM has been carefully designed to create an army of useful idiots. They can't foresee what happens to them after the socialists have control. Permitted looting = the end property rights. The government's internet takeover and widespread censorship = the end of honesty, free speech and privacy. DEI = the end of healthy and productive competition. Corrupt leftists judges = the end of law and order and the beginning of tyranny. It's all becoming perfectly clear.
Scott. Great comment. Funny I read this and thought about the US far right. You thought about the US far left. My main thesis is the politics and ideology is not a line but a circle and the further you get out on the fringes, the closer far right and far left viewpoint actually collide.
This article was amazing but shows our system is being hijacked by the minority extremes and the expense of the majority folk with common sense just trying to live their life.
Thank you. Such an interesting comment, and one that I didn't think about. The collision you mentioned makes sense. My morning "go-to's" today are often Barri Weiss, Glenn Greenwald and Michael Shellenberger, and I didn't foresee us landing so frequently in the same camp.
Yes, starting with personal freedoms, rights and responsibilities of a Republic, if you proceed to the left you end up with a democracy then socialism, if you move to the right you also end up with a democracy then a move to fascism but in both cases, it is pretty much the same when you circle back. All in all, this devolution is called collectivism and we as people end up with NO rights.
Yes, I agree it is a circle and if you move far enough either left or right, you have basically reached the other side of the aisle.
First they dismantled manufacturing starting in the 1980s and then they dismantled STEM and next they dismantle Reason.
So are you saying we should all go get a STEM degree and this would solve everything?
What I see in you comment and those that replied are a clear, succinct grasp of the problem, but little idea of a solution.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." That is a wise statement that would apply in our current situation. We are way beyond "prevention" at this point. Going back and talking about what we should have done is only beneficial if we apply the lessons learned to the present. Example: All the videos that show parents reading pornographic literature found in public school libraries to school boards and demanding that they be removed..........turn right around the next morning and help little Johnny get ready to go back to the same school.
Talking to a school board about what they already know they are doing is NOT going to change anything. And the porno stuff is the obvious rot taking place, but you can bet there is a ton of other things going on at the school to rot those children's minds. If they will blatantly use that filth in their literature, just imagine what they are doing otherwise to those children's minds.
There is only one solution to this madness. It is the same solution for a house that is infested with cockroaches or termites. It is the only solution there has ever been throughout history. We are way past talking about other solutions like voting, protesting, and taking STEM classes as forms of solution.
Outstanding essay which will be read by very few (present company excepted). The slow march to our collective destruction is being witnessed with horror by those who grasp the enormity of what is going on. The dismantling of the current order will not be replaced by utopia but by the hell of disorder.
I really enjoyed it, too. Feel free to share, it's free to read.
Will do Chris.
The hard part in sharing is finding people who are close enough to the truth (and maybe brave enough) to see it. Many are so lost they will follow their hero’s into oblivion.
Peace.
The "Road to Serfdom" should be required reading in high school. That Reader's Digest published it for readers in the 1950s tells you how far we have fallen with our literacy rates. (I include myself in this pool.) I look forward to getting the "Fatal Conceit." I tell people we are no different than ants. We signal expectations to each. Anyone who thinks they are above low expectations is a fool. Recently, I was in a drugstore to get lip balm. The store was dingy with no employees in sight. As I reached for the balm, a thought popped into my head, "Just put it in your pocket - payment isn't expected." I felt like my mind was tapping into a signal. I snapped out of it, paid for the item at self-checkout, and left. The next stop was at a Trader Joe's where the thought of stealing would have been an absurd transgression of the communal vibe. In SoCal, officials pontificate about how horrible Jan 6th was, but not the destruction caused by the riots. Small business owners lost everything, but I am to cry because Pelosi and others felt unsafe. This is the signal: officials and their property are sacred, but not that of the citizens. We are mere fodder for their appetites.
How to say "original sin" without saying original sin.
Superb statement.
I challenge anyone to read Romans chapter one........please use the King James as it is not some watered-down, dumbed-down version........and tell me it is not an EXACT description of what is going on in Western society today. Here is an excerpt.......and by the way, it is way above and beyond Hayek.
18" For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:"
Simple "cause and effect" on display. Cause: deny God and His plan for humanity; effect: become a fool without the ability to distinguish right from wrong......or even think logically.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
(Cause and effect.)
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
(Perfect description of Western society today.)
Thanks!I hate typing on an iPad!
Thank you for this illumination and insight. I found these quotes that seems to apply. “Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.” -Jeffrey Fry and “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” -Winston Churchill
Anyone who writes or thinks that man developed his own moral code is an idiot in the extreme.
We are getting a small taste of what it is like for humanity to sit around and dream up a "moral code." Whether one is an individualist or a collectivist matters not in this regard.
People become collectivist because they are spoiled, lazy, and afraid of individual responsibility. The collectivist, public school is the breeding ground of the communist attitude in America today......and that goes for the overpriced, overrated University system as well. They are the foundational promoters and finishing schools of the idea that "we are all in this together" mentality. They are the training ground that teaches people not to think but rather to fill in a blank with the proper, provided answer. Once you have memorized the proper, provide answer, and immortalized the one who gave you the answer, then you feel you have no need to extend any mental effort past that point. You have become a socialized, automaton drone or society.
Hayek was a fool, and so is anyone that follows his teaching........because he looks for the solution with in the problem itself. Mankind is incapable of solving the problems pointed out by Hayek. We have thousands of years of history that show that societies sooner or later devolve into exactly what is happening to America. There is a clear fundamental reason, and it is NOT because man is just not smart enough to figure it out. The same destructive forces destroying America are the same ones that are well documented to have destroyed Rome 1500 years ago. Have we learned nothing? Are we as dumb as they were back then?
We are about to face "Biblical" consequences in this country. There is a reason we have the term "Biblical." Sitting around today and denying the power and forces that are beyond humanity's ability to control or solve is just to be willfully stupid. God created a man and a woman. The brightest, most educated, minds in the halls of leadership and education today, will tell you there are dozens of genders. I have heard lawyers, doctors, professors, scientist, and lauded geniuses make the claims of multiple genders; outright say that a "man can be a woman." What we are witnessing is the mind or man at war with the mind of God. That war has never and will never end well for mankind.
Thanks for presenting Hayes’ views so understandably.
Brilliant thank you
“Eyes to see but cannot see; ears to hear but cannot hear” as the Lord observed.
I am with you on this. Where are the disciplinarians that were instrumental in our prior generations; in schools, churches and other civic clubs? I search often for dignity, respect, honesty and integrity.
Perhaps it is time to bring back mutual respect and etiquette. We used to have a civilized and dignified order. I miss the inspiration of those teachers and elders that I looked up to. We worry so much about material possessions when cleanliness and Godliness are free and would open so many more doors. I appreciate your thoughts and the thoughts of the epic Frederic Hayek.