Egalitarianism as a statist goal invariably leads to indigestible social inequality. That inequality inevitably becomes sanctified by the state and becomes immutable. Cynicism is the rational response to cronyism-or identity politics. One need only watch BBC programs which wallow in self flagellation over Victorianism and the British Empire to understand the depths of this cheap and easy "sophistication."
When the state seeks to regulate human conduct on a personal level down to the way man thinks about his fellow human beings and impose criminal sanctions for "wrong thinking," one really has wrought a Kafkaesque tyranny.
I have posted here before my musings on a return flight from Moscow in which I was so troubled by the atmosphere and the condition of the Russian psyche which I encountered that I was compelled to write that the overwhelming feeling one takes away is that of an appalling, empty, cynicism. Today we read of the corruption which is thoroughly out of control. When we cite Eastern European countries as recovering from communism and having some true hold on the notions of liberty, I hope we intend to except Russia, Ukraine etc for these lands are now even as corrupt as czarist Russia and nearly as corrupt as the Stalinist Soviet Union.
This cynicism is the inevitable result of statism. Cronyism and corruption are inevitable results of statism and cynicism is their spawn.
I'm about to make an observation which will be unpopular in these threads to those who are not libertarians: when the state undertakes to regulate private morality, such as prostitution, gambling, adultery, drugs, homosexuality, it verges on the same error and courts the same cynicism.
The United States is about to become a United States of Europe because immigration feeds into our body politic an indigestible quantum of alien culture. If this culture does not share our assumptions about the rule of law, the common language, the capitalist system, even democracy itself, it will overwhelm our values if the numbers are sufficient. If we on the right misjudge our proper role and alienate our modern youth with misplaced emphasis on controlling private morality, we will be regarded with contempt and cynicism.
Caveat: this is not to say that we should abandon our God-given responsibility to protect the unborn, that is a crime with a victim. What the Tories in England and America misunderstand is the difference between ethics and morality. When we abandon ethics and pander to morality, when we prostitute the power of the state to a sect's morality, we breed cynicism.
