Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the elite are using the culture to create problems, they then pretend to try to fix with law. Drug abuse, school shootings, crime, homelessness, hopelessness, unemployment, lack of family formation, etc… are examples of problems created by the cultural elite. Then the State elite pass laws and regulations to “solve” those same problems. Law is a poor means to solve a societal or cultural problem, and so they fail. Often making things worse. Which plays into the hands of the elites. More problems require more government to solve them. Since, if government and law fails, then you need more government and law, obviously. Meanwhile the cultural elite are creating ever more problems for the State to solve with the misapplication of law.
All of our local problems are caused by the social and cultural elite. How? By the negative messages they emit into the zeitgeist. Drugs are largely a result of hopelessness. Hopelessness inculcated into the youth by our opulently expensive education system. Why’s the climate change narrative taught in schools if not to discourage kids about their futures? How dare you! Why do you suppose almost all small businesses are started by immigrants to the US? Because the schools don’t teach children to be entrepreneurs, they teach kids to be entitled, self indulgent, ants. Americans know better than to try to run the gauntlet of regulations, taxes and potential criminal action should we start a business. It’s much easier to take drugs, get on welfare and play video games. Then there’s our demonic culture.
The failed war on drugs is proof enough that trying to solve a cultural problem with legal solutions is a non starter. Because law is a poor solution for cultural problems. More often than not, the application of law to solve a societal or cultural problem only makes the problem worse. The problem of poverty was to be solved by the “Great Society.” Since then, the government has taxed, printed and borrowed trillions of dollars to spend on it… making poverty far worse and cloying than before the program started. A failure by any account. Now we’ve coined a phrase to label the new poverty… generational poverty. There is no more upward mobility. Government took a societal problem, applied law, and made it far worse. Just like they did with gangs, grift and drugs.
Many people think the State’s goal is to improve the standard of living, help us make our lives better and lift up the downtrodden. They’re wrong. The role of government is to protect its power and grow that power. Those other things are a means to that end… as long as they serve that end. The moment benevolence hinders the elite’s thirst for power, is the moment they’re thrown off. Examples abound of governments that came into power, sometimes democratically, often at the barrel of a gun, that immediately turn against everything they stood for during the revolution. Cuba, China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Uganda, Venezuela, the EU, etc… Otherwise, why would the CCP and Trudeau’s Canada effectively kill the handicapped? While calling capitalists evil for not helping them enough?
The worse the elite make things for the rest of us, the more power, privilege and profit there is for them. Talk about a pernicious incentive. Maybe that’s why the elite all work to make the world worse. The cultural elite by creating cultural problems like school shootings, then the State elites can exploit the people’s emotions to pass laws that won’t solve the problem, they’ll make it worse, but the power of the elite will be enhanced. The more they fail, at making things better, the better they have it. They must believe its best to ride out a dying world than to toil in an ascending one. So they’ve diligently worked to poison this one, culturally, socially and legally… to make their lives better, how post modernist of them! Maybe, instead, we should keep law, culture and society in their place?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
