This is obviously a political post, so feel free to ignore it if that’s not your interest around here. This is also a reference for me, as I’ll be linking to an article that I may want to have access to in the future.
The Plan for Socialism in America
It’s a good read. There is certainly the potential to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole, but y’know, some conspiracies actually do exist. It will be interesting to see what Comrade Obama does in the next few years. Socialism is like kudzu; it keeps creeping in, innocuous at first and even potentially beautifying (hey, it’s green!), but eventually so entrenched and overwhelming that it smothers innovation, progress, uniqueness and variety. When the nanny state takes care of your every need and want, what impetus is there for improving one’s self, and what cost does that care come with?
It reminds me of The Incredibles and No Child Left Behind, actually: “When everybody’s super, nobody is.”
“When everybody’s super, nobody is.”
That is the most profound message from The Incredibles, and I hope people keep hammering that message home.
The USA enjoys technological superiority in most vital areas: military, biotechnology, medicine, pharmaceuticals, electronics, etc. But that will go away if our goal is bringing everyone to the same middle instead of helping our best excel.
So the kudzu-like movement towards a socialist state concerns me enormously.
Indeed. If, perhaps, the goal were to make everyone a brilliant rocket scientist, that would be one thing, but the way these things almost always seem to work is to drag down the outstanding people to the lowest common denominator. It’s a pervasive, pernicious populist doctrine, since the “lower class” (whether economic or educational) loves to take a sort of perverse reverse pride in their situation, seeking an almost French Revolution solution that winds up with the “top people” dead or exiled. (Or as good as exiled by being actively ignored.)
We like to demonize the Bernie Madoffs and Ken Lays of the world in the name of “equality”, and they certainly pulled some boneheaded illegal moves… but it’s the same “equality” mentality that ties potential Einsteins to the same system that churns out Joe Six Pack and the consumer lemming hordes.