Stupidity Leads To Central Planning

Posted on July 10, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, one of the primary attributes of a stupid person is the belief that if given unlimited power they could make the world into utopia. They would be the virtuous central planner. I suspect almost every stupid person on Earth believes that. Such ideas are born of the Dunning-Kruger effect. One need not know anything about a subject to assume they know it all. This is because we don’t know what we don’t know. The stupid, however, assume that if they don’t know it, it doesn’t exist. This facilitates the notion that one could rule the planet with an iron fist and Heaven on Earth would result. For one to be that stupid, knowledge of history must be perverted or absent, complexity theory has to be gibberish, and the ego needs to be the size of the planet they wish to rule.

History is emphatic that central planning fails spectacularly. Even when vested in the hands of Confucius’ Sage Kings, it was perverted by Yu. Modern versions have resulted in mass slaughter, famine, and world wars. Then there are the gulags. History is only a reflection of the nature of central planning by force. Confucius’ Sage Kings ruled by example and force of personality… not force of arms. They supposedly became the ideal of what they asked of the people. Seeing the example, the people would follow and be virtuous. How many people who earnestly believe they could rule the world with an iron fist and create utopia… would lead by example? I would wager not one. That’s why central planners need force, to keep the people from following the leader’s example.

People seek their own self-interest. I do it and so do you. It’s human nature. If we are asked to sacrifice for the greater good, and we see a good in it for us and our loved ones, we step up. If we look at those who are asking us to tighten our belts and they are loosening theirs, we become aggravated. That’s when force becomes necessary. External force is insufficient to stifle human nature, however. The example of greedy, power-mad, and egotistical rulers only makes everyone greedy, power-mad, and egotistical. This causes chaos because the people only follow law and morals when there is instant punishment. They have no self-restraint. That was beaten out of them by their leader’s actions and wrath. The stupider the leaders are, the more destructive the stupidity they foster will be.

I think most people who believe if they were made all powerful they would create utopia, earnestly believe they would improve the lot of Mankind. They wouldn’t seek to starve millions, start wars that kill millions, or enslave whole populations… that would simply be the result. This is because intentions do not yield results. There is a saying… concentrated stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. A single stupid person, no matter how stupid, is only capable of limited harm. Give that stupid person unlimited power, and they now have unlimited power to harm. The harm they can inflict is effectively unlimited. Not done out of malice or ill intent, just the result of a stupid person forcing their stupidity on mankind. This is because they don’t know what they don’t know, so assume it doesn’t matter.

The stupid will kick down Chesterton’s fence to help someone and be aghast at the results. Then they have to build a network of fences to mitigate the harm. That network of new fences to control evils creates banal evil. Constant little evils that make up day to day life under central planning… even as we look up and watch the politically favored fly above the network of fences. This aggravates us, which results in more fences. Moreover, stupid people are not likely to lead by example. Such people haven’t learned humility, gratitude, or temperance. These are qualities required for leading by example. So when invested with unlimited power, the stupid become hedonists fulfilling their every desire, as they demand the people tighten their belts. This is done not out of malice but out of stupidity.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks – Collapse At The First Bout

Posted on July 9, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

In school it’s always hurry hurry,
It’s but an indoctrination slurry,
Gate keeper elites,
Take your seats,
And so learn what it is to worry.

Materialists only need one miracle,
Then their logic takes it spherical,
What’s before their eye,
They vehemently deny,
Claiming their hate is only empirical.

Redistribution of wealth is a noble dream,
Uplifting the downtrodden it would seem,
The self-promoted few,
Paid for by you,
Because the whole thing’s a Ponzi scheme.

The globalist elites to utopia set sails,
Despite the storms serpents and gales,
A glass palace,
The trouble is,
That whatever they touch always fails.

They apparently want us stressed ___,
Believing in absurdity without _____,
A house of _____,
Built upon shards,
Only to collapse at the very first bout.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Government Is Our Enemy

Posted on July 8, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, there is no institution created by humanity that is more clutching, venal, or crass than government. You could say that our only real enemy is government. Now, that’s not to say I believe in anarchy. That is to say that government has made itself the enemy of mankind. Several empirical facts lead to this conclusion. The fact that every nation on Earth is in deep national debt is proof of profligacy. The fact that Covid was created in a lab by US tax dollars, transferring gain-of-function to the CCP and killed millions is illustrative of pure unadulterated stupidity. The fact the governments of the world covered it up is proof of corruption. These are only a few examples showing that government has made itself the enemy of humanity.

An enemy of humanity must have several attributes that make it so. The qualities that make something an enemy are loathing, arrogance, and hubris. For government to be the enemy of mankind then it must hate humanity. Covid shows us it has no affinity for us. It must also be arrogant in action and thought. In the creation and cover-up of Covid arrogance was on full display. Remember they not only created the disease, they profited from it, by suppressing safe alternatives that might have saved tens of thousands. There could be no better example of one who thinks another is subhuman. Government must also have the hubris to think it can take over everything. As in an invading army. A real enemy seeks the foe’s total downfall and suppression.

A friend allows you to talk freely within reason, but an enemy can’t stand your voice. This is because friendship is a system of mutual benefit. This is often called a win-win. If an interaction isn’t supposed to end in mutual benefit but of the benefit of one and loss for the other, we call that a win-lose. Enemies engage in win-lose relationships. In war for example, one party wins and the other loses. Sometimes it ends in a disaster for both. This is where no one gets a benefit and everyone sustains a loss. We call this a lose-lose situation. Communication is critical to a system of mutual benefit. Talking freely allows people to understand each other leading to win-wins. A lack of communication leads inevitably to lose-lose or at best, win-lose. Enemies censor their foes.

The stupid often wage war on their own source of sustenance. In doing so they think they are in a win-lose where they are the winners and the farms, industries, and people they are waging war against are the losers. Such people extract from the nation, like trawlers sterilizing an ocean floor. Eventually there will be nothing left to extract. Then the winners become losers as well. Their win-lose game becomes lose-lose. But for the time being government believes itself the winner. It extracts, borrows and spends without limit. Even in the US there is censorship, and in Europe they are actively jailing people for wrongspeak and wrongthink. (A woman in the UK was jailed for silent prayer on the street). Governments start wars their cronies profit from and we bleed for. These are not the actions of a friend.

You may be thinking, “I don’t believe a word of it. Covid did come form a pangolin, the vaccine was safe and effective, heck, I get lockjaw weekly because the tetanus vaccine is a palliative not a preventative. Censorship is a good thing because that means people have something to say. Moreover, win-win is fiction, there are only win-lose or lose-lose interactions.” These are valid opinions based on the official narrative. You and I may grant the others the right to believe and say that… but those same people would deny us our voice. If your government doesn’t censor, wage stupid wars, extract from the nation, and set up win-win scenarios… that government is your friend. If it runs insane deficits, always needs more revenue, wages absurd wars, censors you, and wins at your loss… it is your enemy.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks – Cooking Up Absurdity

Posted on July 7, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

When the citizen is hated by their own government,
Crimes against humanity become overly frequent,
Aborted and replaced,
Culture is defaced,
As the odds of civil war are buoyed by resentment.

People propagandized with news prefabbed,
Speaking their minds without being nabbed,
What culture shock,
In an argyle sock,
They can walk around without being stabbed.

Democrats may be lower than sod,
Beating their base with an iron rod,
But they’ve an ace,
They win the race,
Because of their friend vote fraud.

If it’s crime that we want to stop,
Safe streets you just can’t top,
Send an angry email,
But nothing will fail,
Like a crazy Karen keystone cop.

To our cries the elites’ ears are deaf,
Eyes opened by playing without a ___,
Living by fraud,
Thinking they’re ___,
Cooking up absurdity like a sous ____.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Limericks – In The Abstraction

Posted on July 6, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

Central planning fails the masses,
Starving us in rose colored glasses,
Convincing extraction,
Is losing traction,
And shows the elites are naught but asses.

If you see crime in the EU better stay silent,
They’ll jail you unless you remain compliant,
Cry in your tissue,
It’s not an issue,
If you’re a pedophile cannibal Epstein client.

Some people can observe a lovely flower,
Examining the structure remaining dour,
But something’s amiss,
The blind materialists,
They don’t see its beauty and Godly power.

Though your life may seem like a bog,
Bumping and rolling along like a log,
But happiness does await,
With a blessed playmate,
Because there’s nothing as great as a dog.

Central planning becomes ___________,
Where elites are above the law’s _______,
Utterly _______,
Blind atheist,
And experiencing life in the abstraction.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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The Impregnable Redoubt of Our Courts

Posted on July 5, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the first thing despots pervert is the judicial system. From that vantage point, they can usurp power bit by bit. Moreover, anyone who questions a judge is immediately slandered and possibly imprisoned. This is because the legal systems in every nation on Earth have no effective oversight. In Brazil the courts have arbitrary rule. In the EU courts overrule the political system and the will of the people daily. Meanwhile in the US the Alex Jones trial and Jan 6th abuse under color of law proves that the US court system is utterly corrupt stem to stern. No place on this planet can someone expect a fair and unbiased trial. Why? People are people, everyone is self-interested, therefore no one is capable of rendering justice, only self-interested opinions.

Law is the manifestation of the State’s morality. That which the State deems immoral the State outlaws. The justification is always the public good. However, the reality is always that it serves some private interest. If it’s illegal to collect rainwater you can bet someone benefits from that law. Otherwise no one would have proposed it, nor would anyone have worked to push it through. People are too lazy to work for nothing. There is an old story of a king who put a gold coin under a stumbling rock in the road. Then he waited for someone to move the rock. No one did. The coin sat there under the rock because unless there is profit, people don’t act. The same is true of lawmakers. They don’t act unless there is profit in acting. Therefore every law must benefit those who pushed it through.

The courts then take those self-serving laws and enforce them. Doing so normalizes exploitative law. To minimize cognitive dissonance those in the judicial branch grow to despise the people they are tasked with abusing. This is because if we do something bad to someone else, even if by accident, we must align our actions with our mental picture of ourselves, or them… so we change our mental picture of them. We are good people, so they must be bad people since we did something bad to them. Otherwise, doing something bad to an innocent would make us bad people… and that’s just not possible. So the people in the judicial system whose job it is to abuse grow into the role of abuser. This facilitates the perversion of the legal system to the devices of would-be tyrants.

Normalcy bias works in the general population as well as the courts. Moreover, people resist change because each change represents a little death, and the work it takes to replace it. People like consistency. So we could say that people expect things to remain the same, and they actively work to keep it the same. Each step a State takes to becoming exploitative is then locked in by this process. It becomes more normal for the State to exploit, extract, and abuse. Those doing the extracting resist change due to normalcy bias and desire for consistency. Plus the people themselves learn to expect extraction, exploitation, and abuse. Even if we don’t recognize it consciously, we understand it innately and in the collective unconscious. Nevertheless, we hope there is some justice.

People expect the courts to mete out justice. It’s normalcy bias. That means we give courts the benefit of the doubt. The same courts that refuse us that benefit. Add to this the fact that courts are the final arbiter of any question. Law enforcement may be an Executive function but they are beholden to the judicial branch. If a politician gets in the way, he or she can be punished. This eliminates all oversight. The news illustrates that in industrialized countries the political system has become much weaker than the judicial system. This makes the court system the ideal vehicle to launch an attack on any nation and people. It’s an impregnable redoubt with unlimited firepower. Therefore, a faction lacking ethics, humanity, and control of the legal system will get unlimited power. This is obvious… if you look.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks – A Dour World

Posted on July 4, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

The elite know just how you felt,
Their policies left a great big welt,
But the world is at stake,
There’s less pie to take,
So you’ll just have to tighten your belt.

Healthcare is all about physical wellness,
Making people well is their core business,
But something’s awry,
They fail and then cry,
Since the system’s contracted a mental illness.

The elites are still chanting revolution and fight,
Globalist elitists who do rule by guile and might,
A strange anachronism,
An elitist progressivism,
They stay left as the rest of the world moves right.

Once extraction is the role of government,
Redistributing it to those of political bent,
Laws become liquid,
Enforcement insipid,
And that state is what’s called demon sent.

As the extracted from get more ____,
And the elite get more crazy _____,
Smash the old ______,
For global progressivism,
Until everyone on the planet is dour.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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The Swindle of Socialism

Posted on July 3, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the deep problem with socialism and all its offspring is the foundational lie, that everyone can be indigent and rich at the same time. This is an example of what I call a glittering lie. A lie that is obvious but is so attractive it is believed anyway. A mundane example is when we buy a new car and think that it will make us happy. We know that in the long term it won’t, and indeed the payments could make our lives harder, but the idea is so attractive. Socialism is a glittering lie in this way. I suspect even the most ardent socialist knows in his or her heart that it can’t work, but they so want it to that they can’t help themselves. They are drawn to that foundational lie, like a moth to a bug zapper. The idea that one can loll about all day and at the same time be wealthy is quite magnetic.

A lie is a lie no matter how glittering or how much one wants it to be true. That is the reality of how swindles are done. Just as water seeks low ground, people seek easy money. If that were not the case, there would never be a pig in a poke, shell game, or a need for a bunco squad. The mark wants money for nothing, so loses the little money he or she does have. They lose it to someone who is working to get money for nothing. The swindler exploits the mark’s greed against him. They work hard to provide nothing. The same game is being played in the case of socialism. The socialist who seeks to run the despotism is exploiting the greed of the marks who throw themselves on bombs to usher in a new golden age. Maybe one that will last a thousand years.

The worker who picks up a hammer to smash is a mark in the socialist game. They have fallen for the foundational lie. The notion that indigence can lead to wealth. All the future layabout need do is smash the machine of wealth creation, then everyone will be rich. Nothing makes more sense than that! Yet it has always resulted in near universal poverty, not prosperity. Nevertheless, those who run the despotic machine of extraction that is socialism live like kings. Even in North Korea. There the apparatchiks are at the top of Pareto’s economic curve. Their high life is due to political favor, not merit, hard work, or entrepreneurship. This exposes the foundational lie of socialism, yet those who fall for it are blind to the example, and those who would be the apparatchiks adore that foundational lie.

Swindlers, like socialists, will go to great lengths to provide nothing for money. Such people eschew productive work for the swindle. This is probably for a myriad of reasons. Some possibly just like to pull it over on others, the thrill of a con, what they see as easy money, power, etc. A con artist will work so hard setting up a game that the same effort, applied legitimately, would make them filthy rich… instead of just filthy. This means the harder working, smarter, and heartless the swindler the higher they will go. The same is true of a socialist. It’s like Game of Thrones. That’s a swindle where most of the cons and patsies die horribly. This is because there can only be one Stalin, Mao, or Hitler. The foundational lie then is the bait they use to exploit human weakness.

This makes socialism a pig in a poke con. The socialist sells a bag with a squirming entity inside. He or she tells us it’s a piglet, but we can’t look… it might escape. So we buy it for supper. When we get it home we find it was a stray cat. So we go hungry as the swindler eats a nice meal. We are told that if we fight to give them unlimited power, we will eat for free. Then, once they have power, the marks go hungry as the socialists eat a nice meal. That is the nature of socialism. It’s sold on a glittering foundational lie, the notion that one can be indigent and wealthy at the same time. The truth is that only the political class will be indigent and wealthy… the rest will starve. This makes socialism a swindle. The leaders are the swindlers and the people are the patsies. Are you a patsy in their game?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks – Hearts Of Tin

Posted on July 2, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

Totalitarians demand our submission,
Surrendering to their ids’ commission,
There’s distributed blame,
It’s a self-delusion game,
Where they give each other permission.

The planners work diligently sending emails,
Managing the economy with an eye to details,
But complexity is tough,
It teaches us stuff,
Just as the Fed proves central planning fails.

I usually shop at the local Walmart,
Using the squeaky shopping cart,
It maybe the gin,
But I do fit in,
And me think me is pretty smart.

Such evil in the world we cannot ken,
It happens to us over and over again,
Central planning begets,
As bureaucracy abets,
And it makes monsters of mortal men.

Many people desire to mortally sin,
Exploiting the system from ______,
No self-awareness,
Plenty of __________,
As bureaucracy makes hearts of ___.

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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Moral Ownership

Posted on July 1, 2026 by john

Dear Friends,

If I make a stone ax from a rock I find, cordage I twist, and a handle I hew… who is justly entitled to that ax? Central planners would argue that the moment it is created it becomes their property. That same argument was used by kings and emperors back in the day. It’s called the rights of kings. The Enlightenment did two things. It decimated the power of the Church and it obliterated the legitimacy of kings by falsifying appeal to authority. Today the term appeal to authority has been perverted to appeal to illegitimate authority. As if there are experts we should never question. Those same people argue to the head of a pin that the stone ax I made in a state of nature is their property. Rationalizing it as the needs of the many overrule the needs of the few. But is that just?

Are we entitled to the products of our own hands or are we indeed slaves to a king, despot, or bureaucracy? The definition of a slave is someone who is not entitled to the product of his or her own labor. They are property whose production belongs to another. Just as the output of a mechanical loom is the property of the owner of that loom. So we can reverse this chain of logic. If someone else owns your production, you are their slave. This is proven further if they control your body. If you are forced to take a shot they demand regardless of your thoughts, someone else controls your body. The fact that they allow you to keep some of your labor isn’t proof of freedom, it’s proof of manipulation. The central planners that run the world today assume the position and so rights of kings.

The Rights of Kings was a theory that the king had his power as the intention of God himself. This perverted Christianity and blasphemed at the same time… how very efficient. To illustrate the results of always getting what you want… I am reminded of the Simpsons. Homer was getting everything he prayed for, and so became arrogant. Then he began making demands of God. Justifying the sins of pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, gluttony, and sloth (the lifestyles of royalty, elites, and despots) in the name of God is the purest form of blaspheming. So central planners both claim God doesn’t exist as they assume the rights of kings by popular vote. Then rig elections, ban opponents, and choose who can run. This ensures they have the rights of kings without the religious baggage. Language is their domain.

Central planners then changed “appeal to authority” to “appeal to illegitimate authority,” inserting the spurious notion that some authorities are above questioning. Legitimate authorities then must not be questioned… they are the experts, the professionals, and the science. Regardless of what the central planners say, no matter how absurd, they must not be questioned. They are the legitimate authorities that are above questioning. Just as kings and the Church were back in the day. This is because those who assume the rights of kings cannot be questioned, or else their authority will evaporate away. Central planners are like the driver who puts his car in the ditch, then complains a tree jumped out in front of him. Their hubris and arrogance are only matched by their ineptitude.

All this warping of logic, morals, and ethics is so that some can take from others and call it just. Kings called it the rights of kings. The Church called it the will of God. Today, central planners claim rule by experts is in everyone’s best interest… so submit. In most cases kings produced disasters. It was the rare king who did good for his kingdom. The same holds true for despots and central planners. If the ratio of failures to successes holds, then we can expect central planning to produce poverty, chaos, and war, while the central planners get rich doing it. Of over seventy-five Roman Emperors, only five were considered “good emperors” by Edward Gibbon. So far central planning has yielded even worse results. So I ask again, if you made that ax… who would it belong to?

Sincerely,
John Pepin

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