Brainwashing back in High School
In our American Government class in high school, I remember playing a game where we split into groups and we had to pretend that we were on a deserted island. The game was, of course to construct a government that ensure the survivability of the people on the island and to equitably distribute resources. My group and I saw this for what it was, but most of the kids fell into the trap for which they were intended to fall.
The trap was to force us kids to accept a premise that we would not normally accept under normal conditions and to eventually have that premise, which could only be accepted in crisis, accepted under normal conditions. It was clever enough to work on 10 year olds, but we were all 17 and 18, and for my particular group, we didn’t take the bait.
I am, of course insinuating that the teacher wanted us to say, that under certain conditions, communism (or socialism) was an acceptable form of government. Now, we flatly refused to accept this premise and instead constructed an absurd form of government called a militaristic democracy, which won the teachers disapproval and a tongue lashing from the classes resident hippy-wannabe who told us that she hoped none of us ever became statesmen.
We told her we thought she WAS a man… I mean her armpits were probably hairy enough. Just kidding we didn’t tell her that. But we told her, even back then, that we didn’t appreciate the game we were forced to play. The teacher said that we could chose any kind of government we wanted and gave us a “C” I think. Or maybe he didn’t grade the assignment. Either way it isn’t important. What WAS important was that we called the teacher out on his fairly obvious attempt at getting us to accept a form of government we knew to be evil.
Power to the people!
James
Communism and Global Warming
So my friend was telling me today that communism wouldn’t be that bad if it were “real” communism. I was like dude, what you see is what you get. Communism is communism. And then he went on to say that again, communism that is in the world today and as it was in the Soviet Union was not true communism. But I had to remind him, then why does every communist country turn out the same way? Because that’s what you get with communism fool!
Without fail, communists have always been murdering, thugs who were ignorant of the inalienable human rights endowed by our Creator. Communism is always about the state and never about freedom of any kind. Yet my buddy says that he would be OK with a government regulating every facet of his life if it were “done right” or it “fixed the mess we were in.”
All I could do was just start telling bad jokes at that point because clearly, there is no getting through to someone who thinks that government is the answer to the problems we face today. Ayn Rand put it best when she said that politicians create problems, and then try to fix those problems by creating new agencies, regulations and taxes. Which, of course, only causes more problems which the politicians try to fix with regulation, taxes, and new government agencies… or something like that.
If communism ever took hold of the U.S. I would probably be one of the millions of people murdered in cold blood in the street because I would not stand for it. I would love my freedom too much. And I would rather live free than die a slave to some bureaucrat or authoritarian government.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/09/mojib-latif-warns-ipcc-of-cooling.html
Bet you didn’t know a leading IPCC scientist says that we could experience a decade or two of global cooling… Yeah, didn’t think so. All the Global Warming deniers can take a moment to feel vindicated.
Is this administration going to take that into account when they pass their radical agenda? Hell no! You can bet the farm on that. Politicians will never turn away from a chance to control your life!
Keep the Faith!
James
