About three years ago, before this Covid swill was poured down our throats, my wife pointed out an article in the Toronto Star about a proposal to have cars fitted with bumper cameras, or some other surveillance devices intended to cut down on illegal parking, hit and run offenses, and various other “bad” things that if recorded on video would make all of our lives better. Surely anything that would lessen the crime rate was a good thing.
Excellent article, as usual, Todd. A complicated subject. Agree with most of the comments posted before me. One of the issues you bring at the beginning of the article is the tradeoff between making sure nobody commits a "crime" and interfering with basic individual privacy. There have to be limits to what a government or agency can do to try to assure "the common good"... without those limits, we end up doing more harm.
I do wish I was clearer about the concept of crime being allowed in the culture. I do believe there has to be, in the current state of affairs, and effort to enforce laws made by the people. I definitely agree with your last sentence. Crime, enforcement, and punishment, is complicated...just read "Les Miserables" for a bit of perspective on this!
I believe the problem of crime starts with the foundational building blocks of a human being. I do not believe that a criminal is formed by genetics, although if I was presented with more concrete evidence I could be swayed...certainly not all criminals. However, we are a long way from controlling crime through that method.
Sorry. I had noticed after I posted (usually try to write elsewhere so I edit more carefully). I meant to type we live in a Crony capitalist society. It’s much the same as an oligarchical communitarian society except with the promise - or rather spiel that with luck and hard work you can benefit from the crony capitalism. It’s like it’s not what you do it’s who you know.
All you need to do is look at the Johnson government and his replacement Truss and her minister picks. No talent. No brains. No experience.
ESG is all about creating a new casino system as betting on real assets and stocks has come to the end of profitability.
Not only is ESG a danger but do is the future new investment vectors of making nature the new asset class.
For me, my alarm bells went off when I first saw the Agenda 2030 wheel of animals. We humans have equal importance as the badger, crested newt and bears (etc). This is a perverse inversion of the Bible.
Another alarming development is emotional social learning in school.
As Charlie Brown often said ‘AARGH’. WEFist, philandering Charlie will destroy any remaining support for the monarchy. No one has forgotten Diana’s statement ‘there were always three of us in this marriage’. Hence many believe he was involved in freeing himself a la’ Henry VIII of his wife to marry again.
Tbh the Queen revealed who she really was (or maybe she was forced) with her ‘get the jab it doesn’t even hurt’. Later she made another appearance wearing a Monarch butterfly with a small painting of butterflies rather than usual photos of family. Was she telling us something?
Maybe Charles is perfect for our times, vacuous and dim. Like our fridges soon to be empty and our homes during the oncoming cold winter.
We place the modern world on a pedestal. We look at antibiotics, space travel and heart transplants and assume our forefathers were idiots to have not developed those things long ago. The result is an assumption that *everything* invented in our current generation is by default good; the flipside is *everything* (now including the US Constitution, Shakespeare, etc through postmodernism and new critical theory) of the old world is by default bad. We view our forefathers and former intellectual giants as cute savages who didn't know things like IP addresses and blockchain technology.
The result is politicians who sublimate new gadgets like car cameras.
An interesting question I posed to my own family yesterday: Would Dr. Frankenstein appear as a welcomed guest on MSNBC today? I think the answer is yes, and therein lies the problem.
"If nothing is sacred, everything can be commodified." --Maajid Nawaz
It seems that everyone on our side of the fence understands this whole situation with such clarity and accuracy. I am so pleased with that.
What you describe here is also so obviously intentional...to destroy history and all foundation of the morals and values of the past. Remember that old Star Trek episode where they go to some cave-man planet that is all messed up and come to realize they found the constitution of the US in some cosmic junk floating around in space (actually I don't recall how they found it) and Capt Kirk has the leader read it and it is all nonsense when he reads it, meaning the that meaning of the words had not been understood for centuries? (then Kirk, in his profound wisdom and academic acuity, recites the constitution...or could have been the declaration of independence, from memory)....
That is sort of like it is now...everyone has forgotten, or are now being forced to forget, all of the wisdom from the past...
Satan's main game (besides convincing folks he doesn't exist--Usual Suspects) is convincing folks that we can "get *ourselves* back to the garden" of perfection and delight through our own efforts, whether individual or societal, by some means other than the flaming sword of God's Word, Christ Jesus, God-in-the-flesh, perfection and delight personified.
The fakes are myriad, the results always disappointing--especially the eternal one.
I have to admit, Art, that I didn't used to believe this way of thinking. I have always been a very spiritual person and have spent much of my life practicing a faith and studying Christianity and other faiths...now I have to say that what you say here is more plausible than I at one time believed...look out for my Egregore article which is coming out in a week or so...
FWIW, b/c hey, our beards look roughly the same in terms of snow, :) I dabbled in almost everything until ~age 40, the Lord dragged me kicking and screaming to answer one question: how can you *know* what kind of spirit(s) you're dealing with?
The Bible makes clear that the dark ones--with thousands of years more experience than us mortals--are expert imitators of light, adept at (and wholly dedicated to) casting aspersions and doubts on the Truth, e.g., "Did God *really* say...?"
To put it differently, how does one answer Pontius Pilate's flippant philosophical question ("What is truth?" small 't') without falling into the deadly trap he fell into: not trusting the One Who Is Truth, capital 'T', John 14:6, Who was standing right in front of him, willing to die for and redeem him if only he would settle on Truth being singular, definitive, immutable--and PERSONAL.
To me, this statement sums up “perceived, but unachievable utopian ideas”; “where they never have to think for themselves and take responsibility for their own lives”. I experienced it during a conversation last evening with a friend. We were discussing the Russian/Ukraine situation. Her husband overheard a comment I made and went off on me for what he perceived as my defending Putin (I was not and do not!). I was merely explaining how corrupt the entire situation was from both sides, including the US involvement. Consequently, I became the problem, even in my partner’s eyes (he’s a passive “non-sheep” that I describe here).
Even those who don’t believe they are, and would argue vehemently that they are not, sheep don’t really want to risk suffering for what they know in their souls is the false narrative; the evil working to destroy our world. They look around at what they believe they’ve insulated themselves with for protection of their “comfort and happiness”; their solid educations that render them more intelligent than the sheep, their successful careers, nice homes and cars and boats, their “perfect little families and shallow social lives” of others just like them that prove, in their collective thinking, that they’ve succeeded in the American dream. Their greatest fear is disruption and betrayal of this utopian illusion with thoughts, much less verbalization, of how far down the rabbit hole of submission and allegiance to the narrative they’ve actually traveled. Those of us willing to speak of what these “non-sheep” are thinking in the dark recesses of their minds and work so hard to keep at bay by ignoring their souls’ truth, are to me, more an enemy than those actually perpetrating the evil narrative. (There’s a quote by Churchill to this effect).
They know we’re right. They know we’re willing speak out and to resist the machine and, in contrast, they have to wrestle with the realization that they’re weak and afraid of risking their illusory “comfort and happiness” for standing up for truth. We, the shrews, become a problem for them as it causes unrest in their souls. It’s dangerous to follow one’s soul; the very thing that separates us from our house pets.
I believe these people, who are willing to do nothing in the face of evil, who smile and nod and play the surface game of agreeing with us shrews but are not willing to stand up for their convictions (if they even have them!) are a bigger threat than those who openly threaten our survival! I believe these “non-sheep” actually aid and abet the evil narrative with their passivity and feigned indignation, by shading the light of truth rather than joining us in shining it directly into the darkness of evil.
Thank you! I don’t seem to be able to unleash my voice until given inspiration by something that deeply resonates and that I can easily relate to my own experience. And this seems to be the only place it’s appreciated and where there appear to be like souls. It’s lonely being a shrew. I’m always at risk of stepping into trouble amidst the sheep.
Sep 7, 2022·edited Sep 7, 2022Liked by Todd Hayen, PhD, RP
"people also believe we can erase crime from the culture with more militaristic police, more devices for surveillance, digital IDs, digital currency, and more control over all people so the ones who have “nothing to hide” can be separated from the ones who have committed crimes against the system."
There are countless errors in this thinking. In the following example let's define meat as the most natural key element, or nutrition that allows a dog to be a dog.
The first and most obvious error is something like, "If you poison a dog every time that it eats meat, you can successfully make a dog into a vegetarian." It should be obvious that you have not made a dog into a vegetarian, you have made it into a paranoid and malnourished creature that no longer fits the definition of a dog.
There will be another set of, "good dogs" with "nothing to hide," who have already been driven mad. These dogs already believe themselves to be outside of nature, essentially, they are not dogs anymore. They already don't eat meat. They are already afraid of it. In fact these dogs believe that they need to be protected from meat/nature by a cultural construct that calls for insurance against the risk of exposure to meat/nature which includes injections and surveillance to keep them safe.
These dogs that believe themselves to be outside of nature have been damaged to the point that they gladly enter into a slave/master contract in order to pay for insurance against exposure to meat/nature. They are so afraid of owning themselves that they will do anything to surrender their sovereignty to an authority who will claim to protect them from meat/nature. This includes all forms of indentured servitude and voluntary slavery including taxation of 40% of the fruits of their labor. These days, those dogs/slaves are not only told who they cannot associate with they are told who they shall be forced to associate with.
What is crime other than the instinct to shed as few calories as possible in order to get ones basic needs met? The real way to erase crime is first to ensure that every single human has the identical basic needs. There can be not artists who need to express their art. There can be no parents who also have an instinctive drive to meet the needs of their offspring. There can be no independent or creative thoughts, in essence, there can be no humans as God intended humans. Once that is accomplished then you just decide for them what their needs are and you provide the bare minimum to keep them alive so that they can operate as good slaves.
Very nice dog analogy...and the whole argument here is well put.
I have a question...you say "The real way to erase crime is first to ensure that every single human has the identical basic needs..." Who then has the task of "ensuring" that? And one of the big no no among shrews is a universal basic salary. You know the famous Marxist statement: "To those according to their needs, from those according to their abilities."
I am also thinking of the opposite of Marxism, anarchy...where there is no central government that makes certain everyone is given basic needs...thus taking away from others who have more than basic needs...the distribution of wealth is voluntary...within the community. (If anyone is really familiar with anarchy please correct me if I have fumbled that definition up...I don't know that much about it.)
Anyway...I am not judging at all what you have said here...in fact I am very much in agreement, I love what you said, I am just curious to know your thoughts on the question I asked. Obviously this is a complicated issue!!
It is the job or perhaps the endeavor of the slave masters to make sure that every single human has the identical needs. In this way, slave masters can economically provide insurance or "safety" to their slaves which they profess will protect the slaves against "viruses" and "global warming," and other invisible dangers such as "war hungry nations."
This offer given freely by the slave masters to protect slaves against nature is ultimately protection from personal sovereignty. This fully optional slave contract requires that slaves purchase insurance against the presumed risks in life with 40% of their life energy. The slave masters gladly profess to offer protection against disease, war, and famine for the high return that they receive from slave labor.
Slaves get, "health care" which protects them from terrifying and invisible diseases like "viruses" (which do not exist) and "cancers" (which in all likelihood are a response to man made toxins including medical interventions like vaccines, and antibiotics.)
Slavery is the oldest contract on earth. It is humanities default mode. We greatly prefer slavery to personal sovereignty and the overwhelming responsibility of owning our own power and being the masters of our own destiny.
Oh! I see from your response I obviously misunderstood your original statement! Now it all makes sense...sorry about that!! Thanks again for your very intelligent set of comments...and get writing on your substack!!! I want to read more!! And please find the time to come back here once in a while...I love reading what you have to say...
Thatcher once said something like: in a sound economy we should look after the sick, the disabled and the elderly. In the Covid scenario these were the ones targeted for removal of life saving medical treatment with their ‘frailty’ scoring. Here in UK it meant those with below 5 were not treated but made comfortable with end of life drugs.
Fact is, a productive free market aka the ‘hidden hand’ of true capitalism suggests that with plenty should and would look after ‘the widow and the fatherless’. It’s not socialism. It’s actually Judeo Christian ideology.
In a way free markets are more akin to an anarchic model as there’s the removal of centralised control. Plenty of tomatoes this year for everyone, prices lowered.
Law of supply and demand is not law of the jungle: might makes right. We do not live in a true free market economy. We live in front capitalism. And tptb want to remake it into an oligarchical communitarian Society. Aka Animal Farm
No, we do not live in a free market economy, in fact day by day we are becoming a pure Technocracy. If you have not yet studied ESG and ESG scores you are still looking at the cave wall. ESG is the new Global Government. Have a look at your stocks. They all have an ESG score. An ESG score is their corporate social credit score. Without a passable ESG score corporations cannot get loans from any of the big Vanguard or Blackrock banks. Within the ESG framework which is an extension of Agenda 2030, corporations are earning their scores by governing their employees, their contractors and their customers by the purse strings.
Does your corporation provide "healthcare?" Does your corporation keep employees, contractors, and customers "safe?" How about that corporate carbon footprint? Too many gas powered vehicles among employees? (Forget about the arbitrary assignment of the definitions of "green energy" "health," "equity," "safety," and "education." The overlords will hash out those terms behind closed doors.) The p-20 pipeline that you read about is the methodology for farming good slaves through the, "education system," for corporate profits.
All so called utopias like communism fail to address the fundamental fact of human nature. The purveyors of these insane ideas think they can compact all humans to fit their version of what a person should be. But we are all sovereign individuals under God, unique in every way from each other. The lure of the lies of collectivism seem to be smothering the truth of individualism. The fools fall for it every time. Thinking is difficult. Obeying is easy.
As usual, you nailed it my friend. I regret not having said in my article something like "crime can only be effectively dealt with from the bottom up, meaning a criminal mind is formed starting in childhood throughout a person's life. It is ineffective to deal with crime from the top down, which is what we largely do now...with police, violence, imprisonment, and the denigration of a person's rights in order to make crime more difficult to commit"...and everything you just said!!
Yes, we would still have crime if everyone was raised with moral values and weren't continuously traumatized by the culture. But it would be less, and less severe. I would not get into an argument with the "nature vs nuture" folks who believe that a propensity for crime is genetic...I believe in certain rare cases a sociopathology CAN be traced back to "something you are born with" but largely this simply is not true (in my professional opinion!! :-)
Excellent article, as usual, Todd. A complicated subject. Agree with most of the comments posted before me. One of the issues you bring at the beginning of the article is the tradeoff between making sure nobody commits a "crime" and interfering with basic individual privacy. There have to be limits to what a government or agency can do to try to assure "the common good"... without those limits, we end up doing more harm.
I do wish I was clearer about the concept of crime being allowed in the culture. I do believe there has to be, in the current state of affairs, and effort to enforce laws made by the people. I definitely agree with your last sentence. Crime, enforcement, and punishment, is complicated...just read "Les Miserables" for a bit of perspective on this!
I believe the problem of crime starts with the foundational building blocks of a human being. I do not believe that a criminal is formed by genetics, although if I was presented with more concrete evidence I could be swayed...certainly not all criminals. However, we are a long way from controlling crime through that method.
Sorry. I had noticed after I posted (usually try to write elsewhere so I edit more carefully). I meant to type we live in a Crony capitalist society. It’s much the same as an oligarchical communitarian society except with the promise - or rather spiel that with luck and hard work you can benefit from the crony capitalism. It’s like it’s not what you do it’s who you know.
All you need to do is look at the Johnson government and his replacement Truss and her minister picks. No talent. No brains. No experience.
ESG is all about creating a new casino system as betting on real assets and stocks has come to the end of profitability.
Not only is ESG a danger but do is the future new investment vectors of making nature the new asset class.
For me, my alarm bells went off when I first saw the Agenda 2030 wheel of animals. We humans have equal importance as the badger, crested newt and bears (etc). This is a perverse inversion of the Bible.
Another alarming development is emotional social learning in school.
What do you think of the Queen's death? And upcoming King Charles?
As Charlie Brown often said ‘AARGH’. WEFist, philandering Charlie will destroy any remaining support for the monarchy. No one has forgotten Diana’s statement ‘there were always three of us in this marriage’. Hence many believe he was involved in freeing himself a la’ Henry VIII of his wife to marry again.
Tbh the Queen revealed who she really was (or maybe she was forced) with her ‘get the jab it doesn’t even hurt’. Later she made another appearance wearing a Monarch butterfly with a small painting of butterflies rather than usual photos of family. Was she telling us something?
Maybe Charles is perfect for our times, vacuous and dim. Like our fridges soon to be empty and our homes during the oncoming cold winter.
We place the modern world on a pedestal. We look at antibiotics, space travel and heart transplants and assume our forefathers were idiots to have not developed those things long ago. The result is an assumption that *everything* invented in our current generation is by default good; the flipside is *everything* (now including the US Constitution, Shakespeare, etc through postmodernism and new critical theory) of the old world is by default bad. We view our forefathers and former intellectual giants as cute savages who didn't know things like IP addresses and blockchain technology.
The result is politicians who sublimate new gadgets like car cameras.
An interesting question I posed to my own family yesterday: Would Dr. Frankenstein appear as a welcomed guest on MSNBC today? I think the answer is yes, and therein lies the problem.
"If nothing is sacred, everything can be commodified." --Maajid Nawaz
I love that quote...
It seems that everyone on our side of the fence understands this whole situation with such clarity and accuracy. I am so pleased with that.
What you describe here is also so obviously intentional...to destroy history and all foundation of the morals and values of the past. Remember that old Star Trek episode where they go to some cave-man planet that is all messed up and come to realize they found the constitution of the US in some cosmic junk floating around in space (actually I don't recall how they found it) and Capt Kirk has the leader read it and it is all nonsense when he reads it, meaning the that meaning of the words had not been understood for centuries? (then Kirk, in his profound wisdom and academic acuity, recites the constitution...or could have been the declaration of independence, from memory)....
That is sort of like it is now...everyone has forgotten, or are now being forced to forget, all of the wisdom from the past...
Satan's main game (besides convincing folks he doesn't exist--Usual Suspects) is convincing folks that we can "get *ourselves* back to the garden" of perfection and delight through our own efforts, whether individual or societal, by some means other than the flaming sword of God's Word, Christ Jesus, God-in-the-flesh, perfection and delight personified.
The fakes are myriad, the results always disappointing--especially the eternal one.
I have to admit, Art, that I didn't used to believe this way of thinking. I have always been a very spiritual person and have spent much of my life practicing a faith and studying Christianity and other faiths...now I have to say that what you say here is more plausible than I at one time believed...look out for my Egregore article which is coming out in a week or so...
I will look forward to that post, Todd.
FWIW, b/c hey, our beards look roughly the same in terms of snow, :) I dabbled in almost everything until ~age 40, the Lord dragged me kicking and screaming to answer one question: how can you *know* what kind of spirit(s) you're dealing with?
The Bible makes clear that the dark ones--with thousands of years more experience than us mortals--are expert imitators of light, adept at (and wholly dedicated to) casting aspersions and doubts on the Truth, e.g., "Did God *really* say...?"
To put it differently, how does one answer Pontius Pilate's flippant philosophical question ("What is truth?" small 't') without falling into the deadly trap he fell into: not trusting the One Who Is Truth, capital 'T', John 14:6, Who was standing right in front of him, willing to die for and redeem him if only he would settle on Truth being singular, definitive, immutable--and PERSONAL.
To me, this statement sums up “perceived, but unachievable utopian ideas”; “where they never have to think for themselves and take responsibility for their own lives”. I experienced it during a conversation last evening with a friend. We were discussing the Russian/Ukraine situation. Her husband overheard a comment I made and went off on me for what he perceived as my defending Putin (I was not and do not!). I was merely explaining how corrupt the entire situation was from both sides, including the US involvement. Consequently, I became the problem, even in my partner’s eyes (he’s a passive “non-sheep” that I describe here).
Even those who don’t believe they are, and would argue vehemently that they are not, sheep don’t really want to risk suffering for what they know in their souls is the false narrative; the evil working to destroy our world. They look around at what they believe they’ve insulated themselves with for protection of their “comfort and happiness”; their solid educations that render them more intelligent than the sheep, their successful careers, nice homes and cars and boats, their “perfect little families and shallow social lives” of others just like them that prove, in their collective thinking, that they’ve succeeded in the American dream. Their greatest fear is disruption and betrayal of this utopian illusion with thoughts, much less verbalization, of how far down the rabbit hole of submission and allegiance to the narrative they’ve actually traveled. Those of us willing to speak of what these “non-sheep” are thinking in the dark recesses of their minds and work so hard to keep at bay by ignoring their souls’ truth, are to me, more an enemy than those actually perpetrating the evil narrative. (There’s a quote by Churchill to this effect).
They know we’re right. They know we’re willing speak out and to resist the machine and, in contrast, they have to wrestle with the realization that they’re weak and afraid of risking their illusory “comfort and happiness” for standing up for truth. We, the shrews, become a problem for them as it causes unrest in their souls. It’s dangerous to follow one’s soul; the very thing that separates us from our house pets.
I believe these people, who are willing to do nothing in the face of evil, who smile and nod and play the surface game of agreeing with us shrews but are not willing to stand up for their convictions (if they even have them!) are a bigger threat than those who openly threaten our survival! I believe these “non-sheep” actually aid and abet the evil narrative with their passivity and feigned indignation, by shading the light of truth rather than joining us in shining it directly into the darkness of evil.
Thanks for this well-written, deeply-shared, and poignant reply to the essay. Wow.
Thank you! I don’t seem to be able to unleash my voice until given inspiration by something that deeply resonates and that I can easily relate to my own experience. And this seems to be the only place it’s appreciated and where there appear to be like souls. It’s lonely being a shrew. I’m always at risk of stepping into trouble amidst the sheep.
"people also believe we can erase crime from the culture with more militaristic police, more devices for surveillance, digital IDs, digital currency, and more control over all people so the ones who have “nothing to hide” can be separated from the ones who have committed crimes against the system."
There are countless errors in this thinking. In the following example let's define meat as the most natural key element, or nutrition that allows a dog to be a dog.
The first and most obvious error is something like, "If you poison a dog every time that it eats meat, you can successfully make a dog into a vegetarian." It should be obvious that you have not made a dog into a vegetarian, you have made it into a paranoid and malnourished creature that no longer fits the definition of a dog.
There will be another set of, "good dogs" with "nothing to hide," who have already been driven mad. These dogs already believe themselves to be outside of nature, essentially, they are not dogs anymore. They already don't eat meat. They are already afraid of it. In fact these dogs believe that they need to be protected from meat/nature by a cultural construct that calls for insurance against the risk of exposure to meat/nature which includes injections and surveillance to keep them safe.
These dogs that believe themselves to be outside of nature have been damaged to the point that they gladly enter into a slave/master contract in order to pay for insurance against exposure to meat/nature. They are so afraid of owning themselves that they will do anything to surrender their sovereignty to an authority who will claim to protect them from meat/nature. This includes all forms of indentured servitude and voluntary slavery including taxation of 40% of the fruits of their labor. These days, those dogs/slaves are not only told who they cannot associate with they are told who they shall be forced to associate with.
What is crime other than the instinct to shed as few calories as possible in order to get ones basic needs met? The real way to erase crime is first to ensure that every single human has the identical basic needs. There can be not artists who need to express their art. There can be no parents who also have an instinctive drive to meet the needs of their offspring. There can be no independent or creative thoughts, in essence, there can be no humans as God intended humans. Once that is accomplished then you just decide for them what their needs are and you provide the bare minimum to keep them alive so that they can operate as good slaves.
Very nice dog analogy...and the whole argument here is well put.
I have a question...you say "The real way to erase crime is first to ensure that every single human has the identical basic needs..." Who then has the task of "ensuring" that? And one of the big no no among shrews is a universal basic salary. You know the famous Marxist statement: "To those according to their needs, from those according to their abilities."
I am also thinking of the opposite of Marxism, anarchy...where there is no central government that makes certain everyone is given basic needs...thus taking away from others who have more than basic needs...the distribution of wealth is voluntary...within the community. (If anyone is really familiar with anarchy please correct me if I have fumbled that definition up...I don't know that much about it.)
Are you familiar with Larken Rose? http://www.larkenrose.com
Anyway...I am not judging at all what you have said here...in fact I am very much in agreement, I love what you said, I am just curious to know your thoughts on the question I asked. Obviously this is a complicated issue!!
It is the job or perhaps the endeavor of the slave masters to make sure that every single human has the identical needs. In this way, slave masters can economically provide insurance or "safety" to their slaves which they profess will protect the slaves against "viruses" and "global warming," and other invisible dangers such as "war hungry nations."
This offer given freely by the slave masters to protect slaves against nature is ultimately protection from personal sovereignty. This fully optional slave contract requires that slaves purchase insurance against the presumed risks in life with 40% of their life energy. The slave masters gladly profess to offer protection against disease, war, and famine for the high return that they receive from slave labor.
Slaves get, "health care" which protects them from terrifying and invisible diseases like "viruses" (which do not exist) and "cancers" (which in all likelihood are a response to man made toxins including medical interventions like vaccines, and antibiotics.)
Slavery is the oldest contract on earth. It is humanities default mode. We greatly prefer slavery to personal sovereignty and the overwhelming responsibility of owning our own power and being the masters of our own destiny.
Oh! I see from your response I obviously misunderstood your original statement! Now it all makes sense...sorry about that!! Thanks again for your very intelligent set of comments...and get writing on your substack!!! I want to read more!! And please find the time to come back here once in a while...I love reading what you have to say...
Thatcher once said something like: in a sound economy we should look after the sick, the disabled and the elderly. In the Covid scenario these were the ones targeted for removal of life saving medical treatment with their ‘frailty’ scoring. Here in UK it meant those with below 5 were not treated but made comfortable with end of life drugs.
Fact is, a productive free market aka the ‘hidden hand’ of true capitalism suggests that with plenty should and would look after ‘the widow and the fatherless’. It’s not socialism. It’s actually Judeo Christian ideology.
In a way free markets are more akin to an anarchic model as there’s the removal of centralised control. Plenty of tomatoes this year for everyone, prices lowered.
Law of supply and demand is not law of the jungle: might makes right. We do not live in a true free market economy. We live in front capitalism. And tptb want to remake it into an oligarchical communitarian Society. Aka Animal Farm
No, we do not live in a free market economy, in fact day by day we are becoming a pure Technocracy. If you have not yet studied ESG and ESG scores you are still looking at the cave wall. ESG is the new Global Government. Have a look at your stocks. They all have an ESG score. An ESG score is their corporate social credit score. Without a passable ESG score corporations cannot get loans from any of the big Vanguard or Blackrock banks. Within the ESG framework which is an extension of Agenda 2030, corporations are earning their scores by governing their employees, their contractors and their customers by the purse strings.
Does your corporation provide "healthcare?" Does your corporation keep employees, contractors, and customers "safe?" How about that corporate carbon footprint? Too many gas powered vehicles among employees? (Forget about the arbitrary assignment of the definitions of "green energy" "health," "equity," "safety," and "education." The overlords will hash out those terms behind closed doors.) The p-20 pipeline that you read about is the methodology for farming good slaves through the, "education system," for corporate profits.
Perfect...
All so called utopias like communism fail to address the fundamental fact of human nature. The purveyors of these insane ideas think they can compact all humans to fit their version of what a person should be. But we are all sovereign individuals under God, unique in every way from each other. The lure of the lies of collectivism seem to be smothering the truth of individualism. The fools fall for it every time. Thinking is difficult. Obeying is easy.
As usual, you nailed it my friend. I regret not having said in my article something like "crime can only be effectively dealt with from the bottom up, meaning a criminal mind is formed starting in childhood throughout a person's life. It is ineffective to deal with crime from the top down, which is what we largely do now...with police, violence, imprisonment, and the denigration of a person's rights in order to make crime more difficult to commit"...and everything you just said!!
Yes, we would still have crime if everyone was raised with moral values and weren't continuously traumatized by the culture. But it would be less, and less severe. I would not get into an argument with the "nature vs nuture" folks who believe that a propensity for crime is genetic...I believe in certain rare cases a sociopathology CAN be traced back to "something you are born with" but largely this simply is not true (in my professional opinion!! :-)
Thanks for the comment!!