- 03 Sep 2009 08:56
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August 8th, 2019
“The egalitarian mania of demagogues is even more dangerous than the brutality of men in gallooned coats… Anyone who has been oppressed can get back on his feet if the oppression did not cost him his life. A man who has been equalized is physically and morally ruined.” - Ernst Jünger (March 29, 1895 – February 17, 1998)
It is hard to fully understand what Junger is saying when he says this; rather, it is knowledge that only a few can relate to.
The luxury of the rich and the privileged is they already have a maintained set of pride and face; they can feel free to attempt to coddle the impoverished with socialism and turn is into infantile victims. They want to become our parents -- parents we do not need. They want to be our providers -- providers we do not need.
The most insidious figures in politics are the celebrities with their millions of dollars who campaign for us to get more help from the government; they are so miserable even with their own wealth they have to attempt to adopt we the people as their Holy Cause. We all become one of Madonna or Angelina Jolie's third world children to put on display for their feel good charities.
The blessing of the impoverished is the struggle of their journey and the meaningfulness of that plight; the beauty of the common man is his attempts to become uncommon and distinguished, and it is in the simple joys that he receives from a simplistic existence.
All of our accomplishments are our own.
Egalitarianism from this angle is wrong if it goes any further than providing a level playing field.
But what is most disgusting concerning egalitarianism is the morally reprehensible collectivism that threatens to crush the individual. The attempt to join us together, ever and ever closer, to steal our personal identities in the name of a higher cause. We join together -- but not out of choice. Out of perverse elections we give power to men who seek more power to control our lives; you vote my rights away every time that you elect a socialist who has a better idea on what to do with my money than I do.
In a socialist society the government usurps the role of parent and takes the common person to mold into an image they find appealing. Whether it is something as inoccuous as "standing against racism" or "fighting terror," or something so personal as to placing sin taxes on our alcohol and cigarettes and fighting hard for the normalization of every perversion.
And those who do not join in the lines of the government propaganda become social pariahs or even 'un-American;' but, in that case, who wants to be an American if it means a subscription to a repugnant socialist dream?
In socialism, we no longer stand on our own feet, but we stand as dependents on a government that now provides us with our moral constructs and systems; a government that has messages it attempts to force on us and usually succeeds until we all suckle on the teet of soul erasing collectivism.
If we become a part of a socialist society, as Junger said, we are morally and physically ruined.
It is our duty to ourselves, to our very souls, that we bow down not to any system which is so empowered to control us all.
It is hard to fully understand what Junger is saying when he says this; rather, it is knowledge that only a few can relate to.
The luxury of the rich and the privileged is they already have a maintained set of pride and face; they can feel free to attempt to coddle the impoverished with socialism and turn is into infantile victims. They want to become our parents -- parents we do not need. They want to be our providers -- providers we do not need.
The most insidious figures in politics are the celebrities with their millions of dollars who campaign for us to get more help from the government; they are so miserable even with their own wealth they have to attempt to adopt we the people as their Holy Cause. We all become one of Madonna or Angelina Jolie's third world children to put on display for their feel good charities.
The blessing of the impoverished is the struggle of their journey and the meaningfulness of that plight; the beauty of the common man is his attempts to become uncommon and distinguished, and it is in the simple joys that he receives from a simplistic existence.
All of our accomplishments are our own.
Egalitarianism from this angle is wrong if it goes any further than providing a level playing field.
But what is most disgusting concerning egalitarianism is the morally reprehensible collectivism that threatens to crush the individual. The attempt to join us together, ever and ever closer, to steal our personal identities in the name of a higher cause. We join together -- but not out of choice. Out of perverse elections we give power to men who seek more power to control our lives; you vote my rights away every time that you elect a socialist who has a better idea on what to do with my money than I do.
In a socialist society the government usurps the role of parent and takes the common person to mold into an image they find appealing. Whether it is something as inoccuous as "standing against racism" or "fighting terror," or something so personal as to placing sin taxes on our alcohol and cigarettes and fighting hard for the normalization of every perversion.
And those who do not join in the lines of the government propaganda become social pariahs or even 'un-American;' but, in that case, who wants to be an American if it means a subscription to a repugnant socialist dream?
In socialism, we no longer stand on our own feet, but we stand as dependents on a government that now provides us with our moral constructs and systems; a government that has messages it attempts to force on us and usually succeeds until we all suckle on the teet of soul erasing collectivism.
If we become a part of a socialist society, as Junger said, we are morally and physically ruined.
It is our duty to ourselves, to our very souls, that we bow down not to any system which is so empowered to control us all.
August 8th, 2019
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