Posted on 01/18/2019 2:23:08 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Socialism destroys everything it touches. Everything.
As a short drive through certain neighborhoods will verify.
<>America can fail the same way. Something quite serious is attacking America's traditional culture of trust. It is the old paranoid Marxist disease. Nowhere in Marx's societal prescription is trust. His substitutes are force and hate.<>
Indeed.
John Locke reasoned reasoned that “trust” was the best term to describe the relationship between the sovereign people and the government of their creation. It is simply in the nature of a personal assurance, a fiduciary trust of governors to keep within their enumerated limits to achieve the ends of any government, which is the good of the governed. The people themselves decide if their governmental trustees violate their trust. To remain interchangeable, those who wield this power, fellow citizens all, must not develop an interest distinct from that of the community.
I read that in the 1960s. The only other book that had so much impact on my political views was Ayn Rand's Anthem.As time passed, I became friends with a number of refugees from the Soviet Union and from its satellite empire. They confirmed every negative thing I had heard about communism
I had good friends in Canada who had immigrated from communist Hungary. They, in turn, had friends who voluntarily went back to communist Hungary. Being raised with the notion of a guaranteed job with income of some sort, the fear of becoming unemployed, starving, or having major medical expenses drove them back to Hungary.
“I hadn’t realized that trust is impossible under any form of socialism.”
That’s because socialism is built on lies.
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Wisdom as ancient as Sparta in regard to the requirements of true “freedom”. Once the will to be free has been taken from a people does it EVER return?
Solzhenitsyn - Live Not By Lies
As a short drive through certain neighborhoods will verify.
Democrats losing elections but in a surprise upset, end up prevailing days after polls are closed should tell one a thing or two, also.
Ask Elizabeth Smart, who denied who she was even when the police rescued her.
We used to think, and the neoconservatives acted on it, that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs applied to all humanity, with self-actualization being at the top of the pyramid.
Islam showed that obedience to Allah rules over everything for Muslims. Freedom to them is taking the guard rails down from the mountain road to salvation.
Excellent article. Having lived 4 years of my life in an environment where, “I will not lie, cheat, steal, or otherwise betray a trust, or tolerate those who do,” I know that a society based on trust can work. The key part, I have since decided, is: “or tolerate those who do.”
USNA?
That’s why I always liked newspaper boxes. Put in the quarter, open the door, and just take one, please.
And of course all the homes that put out produce or eggs or firewood with a cash box for deposits.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs has always been a crock.
So is Kolhbergs.
Both have the Self in the center of the highest pinnacle of humanity.
We all know that is not true and history shows it. The soldier who jumps on a grenade to save his squad, the missionary who gives up normal living to save the lost, the parent who gives up dreams to raise her young and well.
Referring to the totalitarian socialist states:
“But there were, and are, great fear and deceit. It was milder there after Stalin and Mao died, to be sure, but communism had so corrupted the culture that one expected lies, not truth.”
That’s the insidious nature of the whole “transgender” movement - it is an attempt to force everyone to accept a lie (that somebody with XY chromosomes is a female). And once you can force the population to accept a lie on something as clear and fundamental as that, it’s only a few short steps to “2 + 2 = 5”. Thus the culture of lies begins to overwhelm the culture of trust.
Maslow shared your concern.
In order to account for people like Mother Teresa, who were clearly self-actualized but also held an apparent desire to “identify with something greater than the individual self,” Maslow set a higher motivational level above self-actualization. He named this motivational level “self-transcendence.”
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/maslows_theory_revisited
Does that restore the value of the hierarchy for you?
Compared to savage and ex-soviet union countries, there is much more trust in the USA. But it’s not enough. You can mostly trust people who are doing business because they have a reputation to uphold, but among strangers, there is very little trust. It’s the legacy of the nanny state.
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Good we left that behind.
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