The Charging Elephant Of History

Posted on June 7, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, history is like a charging elephant, and we’re riders who only set atop it for a mere moment, before being swept off, and replaced by the next generation. That’s why education is so important. My generation did a terrible job guiding the charging elephant, and providing education for the next generation, as proved by the times. Hopefully the next few generations will do a better job at controlling it and inculcating ethics, wisdom and humility to their progeny. The elephant of history runs on emotion. The rational part only an afterthought. As a result, history hurtles past in a blinding blur as we try our utmost to keep from falling off, and being trampled… like so many other civilizations before. To do so we need ethics, wisdom and humility.

One of the tools we need to control the elephant is ethics. Hypocrisy being the most unethical and utterly corrosive to our ability to control the future. The hypocrite goads the charging beast into the bushes, and in doing so, is swept off and trampled by history itself. Why? Because hypocrites and villains can’t control themselves let alone a charging elephant. How can one guide a beast when they can’t control their own proverbial arms and legs? As we become ever less ethical we become ever more spastic until we get moral ALS or Lou Gehrig disease. Because villains are lost in their own heads and become unable to use their own moral digits. Moreover, the corrupt could care less about the speed, direction or path of the elephant… only that they drive it.

Another tool is wisdom. Because wisdom allows us to see the future. Imagine trying to drive a car blindfolded? How would that work? What if the blind driver is brilliant? Would that help? Because that’s exactly what guiding the charging beast of history is like when we, and especially our elite, lack wisdom. How does wisdom allow us to see the future? Because wisdom is the ability to understand what’s going on around us. Intelligence is often confused with wisdom but they’re utterly different qualities. Intelligence is the ability to connive while wisdom is the ability to recognize conniving. Scheming is helpful when swindling someone but wholly useless when driving. The ability to see and recognize danger is far more important.

Humility is the key to unlocking both ethics and wisdom. Arrogance, the opposite of humility, is both blinding and debilitating. The arrogant connive to get power, wealth and prestige, while the humble forswear wealth, power and prestige, lifting those burdens from them. Unfortunately, the elephant is guided by the arrogant and not the humble. Because the blind and spastic arrogant have to be in charge. Their egos are tied up in it. Egoism is an attribute of arrogance. Egoists can’t see beyond their own wants. Moreover, egoists lack the ability to control their own actions. Take the example of Biden. He has never been held to any standard, is unwise to the nth degree, and humility is a thing he’s never experienced… and so he’s guiding the elephant into the brush. Along with the other world leaders.

Time goes by whether we notice it or not… and with it our lives. Every ten years you look back and wonder how ten years could possibly have gone by so fast. Worry not, the next ten will go by even faster. Which makes the ability to control the charging elephant of time all the more critical. Sadly, that elephant has been guided by arrogant, stupid and unethical elites. Which is why we’re hurdling towards the end times. The humble, sage and ethical are barred from guiding the beast by the elite. Because in their egoism, the elite don’t care how badly they screw up… only that they’re in charge of it. As Milton said, “It’s better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven…” the road map of the elite. Maybe it’s time to teach our kids wisdom, humility and ethics? So we don’t have to live in Hell.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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SCOTUS and Protests

Posted on June 6, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if we take the democrats at their word, then they’re are calling for the execution of Supreme Court Justices. Only a few decades ago, when SCOTUS was on their side, they unanimously claimed anyone criticizing any SCOTUS decision, was tantamount to calling for the execution of Judges. They were adamant about it at the time. Going on to say that judges are wise and honest, thus would never allow politics to change the way they rule. Which is why the change in attitude is so amazing. Democrat’s past policies are memory holed… but being an old guy, I remember it. Lately, democrats have actually called for SCOTUS to be controlled by adding members, forcing an “integrity” panel to oversee them and assassination attempts during the ruling nullifying Roe v Wade.

In the 1990’s democrats vilified any criticism of a SCOTUS decision as stochastic terrorism. Even TV shows spouted that rhetoric. At the time, SCOTUS was empowering the bureaucracy with decisions that moved legislative power, from the legislature to the bureaucracy. A move democrats hailed as a bold step, towards the administrative state they have scrapped and connived for, for over a century. Many conservatives at the time didn’t like the usurpation of power so we protested. But as in Jan 6 2021, our protests were met with threats of prison. Because protesting a SCOTUS decision was effectively calling for the assassination of Supreme Court Justices. Or so the democrats claimed at the time. Something all sane people are against… but apparently democrats are for nowadays.

Today democrats have a love hate relationship with judges. Those who have open double standards are loved, while those who follow the law and most horribly, our Constitution, are despised. Even as democrats laud judge Merchan’s unconstitutional gag order on Trump, the unconstitutional charges against Alex Jones as well as the judge deeming him guilty without a trial, the denial of standing to anyone who felt aggrieved by the 2020 election fraud, the jailing of jan 6th protesters for years without bail or trial, as well as past rulings nullifying our Constitutional protections like Buck v Bell, Korematsu and Wickard v Filburn. Yet, rulings judges hand down that are in compliance with our Constitution and the rule of law, are vilified as partisan and v by democrats.

The progressive faction lacks integrity. Judged by their actions and rhetoric. Their only virtue is unchecked power over others. The progressives make up the entire bureaucracy, most judges, media, the Democrat party and half the Republican party as well, making the progressives the faction Madison warned us about in Federalist Paper #10. Why have integrity when you control all three branches of government, the media, congress, the Presidency, and the courts? That would do violence to their self interest. People like animals seek their self interest at cost to others. It’s nature. As a result, when a faction is above the law, they act it. Like we see with democrats today. Ethics and integrity are for those who are subject to public opinion, the law and justice. Not progressives.

I say, let’s hold democrats to their own standard. Anything less would be making the entire progressive faction hypocrites. We don’t want that! So, contact your senator and representative, write the media and protest… demanding democrats who criticism a SCOTUS decision… be charged. Especially when democrats protest outside judges homes, as they did during the decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Hold democrats to the same standard they hold us to, don’t abet a double standard… and progressives will stop being hypocrites. Because they’ll have no choice. Obviously they aren’t going to become virtuous under their own power. They’re too corrupt. So it’s up to us to enforce a single standard for democrats as well as republicans. Especially when we’re simply following the democrat’s own rhetoric.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on June 5, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Cheer the ethnic cleansing hurray,

Whites will soon be going away,

They had slaves,

The evil knaves,

But only racists care about slavery today.

 

Quiet down you ignorant sot,

Your opinion’s welcome not,

One pointed view,

Others are spew,

Because once we control speech we control thought.

 

Christians are the ones we have to fear,

Their ideology is mean loud and queer,

Fight them hard,

Use the race card,

Until our beloved Beast System is here.

 

Whatever benefits the progressive faction,

Help the few at cost to the larger fraction,

Subsidize me,

Paid by thee,

It’s called the logic of collective action.

 

Disney is no company quotidian,

It inculcates morals amphibian,

It’s their way,

So I say,

Boycott Disney to oblivion.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Sleeper Cell Migration

Posted on June 4, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if migrants are paying 10k each to be shuttled across the border, that means we’re getting middle class people seeking a better life… as well as paid agitators. No starving migrant has 10k to drop… proving the point. A few million people at 10k each adds up to quite a sum of illegally acquired money. Moreover, illegally acquired money is corrupting. Which means our governments are corrupted by it. The national security apparatus should be our allies in limiting mass migration… but they’re not. The three letter agencies are participating in the crime. We know our enemies are infiltrating sleeper cells into the US and Europe. They’d be foolish not to. So what we have in our immigration system, is a Hegelian strategy to enrich the elite, and create chaos in the homeland.

Human smuggling is a profitable enterprise. Enabled by the US elites open borders policy. I have to wonder how much money the smugglers are kicking back to the elite? With the revelation of the NIH getting payola from the companies they regulate, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, I suspect the payoff is enormous. If not purely in money some is probably in sex slaves or adrenochrome. Our elites like adrenochrome like a chicken likes grasshoppers. Since bureaucrats are the ones abetting the crime against humanity, that is human smuggling, I bet they’re the ones getting the biggest payoffs. Like Fauci did during the plandemic. One thing we know, is that once a crime is exposed, it always turns out to be larger in scope and deeper in horror than what we initially see.

You would think the vaunted CIA would also have this information? That people are paying 10k each to be trafficked to the US. While our enemies are using our open borders to smuggle in sappers. The people seeking a better life are irrelevant. Only the terrorists count. The CIA is supposedly far more intelligent than I, since it’s in their name, intelligence agency. Ignoring their past failures, like, “WMD in Iraq is a slam dunk…” for example, they should be up on everything national security. It’s their single job. Yet the CIA is silent about flooding the US with sleeper cells? Why do you suppose that is? Clearly, it’s a violation of their job description, to facilitate terrorist cells in the US. They probably have a plan that’s so wicked smaat we just don’t understand it.

I wonder how much chaos the sleeper cells will cause once they’re triggered? I’m sure they’ll activate to insure maximum chaos. To enhance their effect. The CCP has camps set up in Central America, facilitating the sleeper cell integration into the migrant herd. Terrorists have already activated, the media has been silent about it though. With multiple attacks on our military bases, this year, sooner or later one will get through. Remember the substations that were attacked a few years ago? I’m thinking they were small scale trial runs. Imagine the disaster the destruction of a dozen critical substations would do? It could take out the entire US grid for perhaps months. Coupled with home invasions, random terrorism, military bases taken over… and you have a recipe for canceling the election.

Maybe the plan is to create chaos in the homeland, to traumatize us, so we’ll demand to be tyrannized. That’s a plan the CIA can get behind. Absolute power has been a goal of the bureaucracy since Woodrow Wilson. The problem for our future oligarchs, with ushering in a despotic global administrative state, is the US and history are powerful examples against it. So they have to go. The US is resilient due to our Christian faith and our belief in the American way. Establishing atheism as the state religion was the first step. Perverting history and our kids was the next. Now bringing in enough migrants, who are criminals, have no connection to the US, no skills, are opposed to Christianity, and ideally, sleeper cells to be rooted out by despotism, is a fast track to their utopia, and our Hell.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on June 3, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

 

There once was a coverup artist Block,

The propaganda he spouts are a crock,

Deep state shill,

A bitter little pill,

And he serves in the Beast system’s flock.

 

There once was a despot named Tony,

The guy was a bum and a real phony,

Half wit in charge,

Fat as a barge,

And in many ways he’s the likeness of baloney.

 

Hark the end of the world is near,

It’s the Bird flu that’s coming here,

Panic and fume,

Stay in your room,

And live in perpetual fear.

 

The elite are above the law,

Our Rights away they claw,

Honest observation,

Is disinformation,

And it’s logic that’s based on a flaw.

 

The tragedy of mass migration is truly sad,

The crime turmoil and poverty is really bad,

Brought by the elite,

Racism to defeat,

Proving the elite in Europe have gone stark raving mad.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Flower And The Fruit

Posted on June 2, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a flower is beautiful but if you trap it in the flower state, you will have foiled its purpose. A flower attracts bees, who pollinate it, and gives way to fruit. Without the flower there is no fruit. Without fruit there is no future. Rather than abort the fruit to maintain the flower, why not increase the number of flowers? If one so loves flowers? The foundational philosophies of post modernism progressivism all have this flaw. They would cut the flower, and preserve it for a week or two, then throw it out for another. Since science advances along with philosophy, and our philosophy has stagnated due to our childish fixations, this philosophical innovation would enable greater advances in science as well.

There is a time for everything and everything has its time. The world would be pretty crowded if every flower that ever existed was still here. Indeed they would lose their beauty. Moreover, if the fruit they bore was aborted… the animals they fed would starve, and the plants they begot wouldn’t sprout, so the world would have died long ago. Each generation of flowers generating fruit, which in turn created more flowers, that created more fruit. Of the two, the flower or the fruit, one could argue the fruit is the more important. Except that the fruit requires the flower as the flower requires the fruit. Eliminate the fruit to protect the flower and there will be no more flowers. Proving, aborting the fruit is like when the CCP killed all the bees, and now the Chinese have to hand pollinate their plums.

Our culture has become mesmerized with the idea of trapping flowers in their flower stage. The younger the better. Our elites have no interest in fruit… they only like flowers. So our cultural elites push permanent flower-hood as the utmost ideal. Those flowers that are no longer pretty are discarded for new ones. While our government subsidizes aborting the fruit so the flower can remain fresh. Even passing laws to make it easier to abort the fruit. Everywhere there are advertisements how a flower can stay young looking. We have eschewed the fruit for the flower in a childish lust for beauty. Not seeing the beauty in the fruit, the tree and the soil. We’ve become fixated on our immature notions and so we’re stuck. Trapped in our own idealist phantasm of the ideal.

Before we can move on as a culture, we have to leave behind those childish notions of trapping flowers, and embrace the fruit stage of life. Some attributes are pleasing while others aren’t. Nevertheless, all attributes that are good should be embraced while those that are bad should be avoided. How do we know the good from the bad? Pragmatically. The pragmatist sees the beauty and value in the fruit while the idealist only wants to admire the beauty of the flower. In the past we as a species have had to put behind us some pretty pernicious and pathological notions… before we could move ahead. Human sacrifice, bloodletting and the magic of a severed chicken leg for example. Our fixation on the flower at cost to the fruit is just such a notion we need to give up.

Our technology has opened up vast realms of possibilities for us… those possibilities are only available if we wise up as a species, and start loving all stages of life. While the connection may not immediately seem apparent, the connection is a hard shunt. Just as without language, arcane ideas can’t even be imagined, and lacking the scientific method science retrogresses, and without a rational pragmatic view of the world, further advancement is unthinkable. We see it today. Science isn’t what it used to be under the modernist paradigm. Thousands of unreproducible papers a year have to be retracted from prestigious journals. Why? Because science has become idealistic and not pragmatic. How can we tell? Our expert’s fixation on maintaining flowers at cost to the fruit. That’s how.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Distraction Of The Trump Trials

Posted on June 1, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the Trump trials are distractions, as are the verdicts. We’re fixated on a meaningless theatrical production while the elite drag us closer to nuclear obliteration. Trump won’t go to jail, he would be murdered instantly. The Secret Service knows that, as do we all, and so they can’t allow it. The only effect of the play is to keep Trump from speaking, campaigning and fixing our attention… while the elite usurp as fast as they can. With momentous treaties being discussed, it behooves the elite to have us looking elsewhere… as they sell us into slavery. Even as our food processing plants burn, trains derail, trans mass shootings multiply, crime is out of control, we’re being replaced, and whole ports are taken offline due to “accidents.” The elite clearly need us distracted.

The UN and WHO pandemic treaty are naked attempts to go around the US Constitution and enslave us to an unaccountable globalist elite. While we’re stewing about the guilty verdict, despite the evidence proving innocence, the elite are taking away our Rights wholesale. If that hellspawn is allowed to be born human suffering on a global scale can only result. Let’s examine the last pandemic and the experts actions… First, Covid was created by the experts, then released either by ineptitude or malevolence, either is criminal. Yet no one has been charged for it. Proving the experts are unaccountable. The response was to shut down the economy, force us to wear masks and push a deadly ineffective shot on us. All of which made the pandemic, they created, worse.

What’s up with the “accidents” these days? Farms, processing plants and forests burning. As the elite gaslight us and claim it’s climate change. Yes, it was… the Canadian forest fires last year were due to a climate activist starting them. So you could say climate change causes arson. It’s tough to be a chicken but tougher today then ever before. Between the bird flu (probably made in a lab) and farm fires, they don’t stand a chance. Any bird that survives bird flu and so has immunity, is immediately killed, to protect the bird flu. In my entire lifetime, no ship hit a bridge, not once, until last year. Since then bridges have targets on them. They’re hit regularly now… for some reason. One could argue that since people follow their leaders, and ours are inept and evil, our entire society has become inept and evil.

Crime is out of control. So much so that robbery is normalized in many cities today. Heck, people are glad simply not to be randomly stabbed at a mall, by some Islamist making a point. Whole cities are being hollowed out due to retail theft. Of course, all this will be moot if the elite start a nuclear war with Russia or China. The detonation of a large portion of the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons over Russian, European and American cities, will bring in a nuclear winter, and the extinction of many species across the world. Burning the world to the ground is a price the environmentalist elite are willing to pay, to cut greenhouse gasses. If they do end the world though, wouldn’t that make our elites the worst people to have ever lived?

No wonder they need such a powerful distraction. The trump trials have proven their worth… even if they have politically backfired. People are all worked up over the rigged trial, as we should be at such a perversion of our “justice” system. The elite know this and are willing for the courts to take the reputational hit, to damage Trump… and distract us from their crimes. The state of NY will be economically ruined by this action. No one in their right mind will want to do business there anymore. Only a fool participates in a system he or she knows is rigged. From street crime to nuclear war, we’re being distracted, to give room for the elite to usurp. The trump trials are theater to distract us and politically ruin Trump. Politically they’ve failed, as a distraction… they’ve worked spectacularly.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Migration And Human Nature

Posted on May 31, 2024 by john

Dear friends,

It seems to me, people migrating to the US are all for Biden’s open borders, in other words, they’re democrats. Until they get here, then they’ll be all for closed borders, capitalism and freedom. In other words, they’ll become republicans. Because of human nature. When it’s in our interests for the US and Europe to have open borders, we’re totally in on open borders. Once we’re here however, and see the damage being done to our new homes, we demand the border closed. Immigrants want a better life. They don’t want to enter Venezuela as Hugo is taking power. They know better. That’s what they’re fleeing. Democrats may get a vote or two, and harvest mail in votes from those who don’t vote themselves… but pooping in your food to make your political foe sick, isn’t a good long term strategy.

Until someone gets here they want the doors open. After paying thousands of dollars, to be trafficked to the US or Europe, they expect a better life than the one they left. Some want welfare, to be above the law, as well as plenty of rape material. To them… Europe is inviting. Others want opportunity to get rich. The US is their primary target. Then there are those who seek the downfall of the West. Both Europe and the US are happy destinations for them. With the added benefit the elite will abet their crimes. Fortunately, the criminals and terrorists are the minority. Maybe only a few hundred thousand or so. The ones looking for opportunity though, they’ll rapidly become republicans. To protect their chance to get rich and keep the money they earned by working hard. It’s human nature.

Once someone is here they want to close the doors behind them. This isn’t an odd or out of place reaction. We also see the same behavior in the rich. Once someone gets rich the first thing they do is turn and close the door behind them. Barring others from becoming rich the way they did. Or so said Joseph Schumpeter in his book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. For the wealthy to close the door to wealth behind them, as well as for immigrants to want to limit immigration once they’re here… is self interest in action. The one doesn’t want competition, the other doesn’t want societal collapse, ruining their dreams. Therefore, despite the hopes of the democrats, the illegal aliens will only vote democrat once or twice at most… before they realize where their self interest is.

People migrate across the world for opportunity. A cushy bed might draw layabouts, terrorists and criminals, but riches make the go getter’s mouth water. Don’t conflate the two for a second. There are those coming to America for a better life and those coming to destroy it. The ones seeking a better life will turn on the terrorists and criminals, going after their throats, like Cujo. People are people, the more we have invested in something the more vicious we are protecting it. Those who’ve spent their entire life’s savings to get to America, to have a better life, have everything invested. Giving them skin in the game preventing American societal destruction. Putting migrants at odds with the progressive globalist faction. The faction that’s using migration to poison politics for political power.

The upshot is, all the propaganda in the world, allowing illegal aliens to vote, and wide open borders, won’t assure a democrat victory in the electoral process. Certainly not long term. Because of self interest. When it’s in our self interest to want open borders, we’re for open borders, and when it’s not, we’re not. To expect people to vote against their self interest, because they’re ignorant illegals, is a sub optimal strategy. Migrants may not speak English well, know how to read or write, but they know what despotism looks like… first hand. People fleeing tyranny don’t seek more tyranny. So, registering illegal aliens to vote and programming them to vote democrat, may be a winning short term tactic… but will fail in the long term. Because of human nature.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The CCP’s Expansionist Aims

Posted on May 30, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if I were the psychopathic totalitarian ruler of China, and I wanted desperately to conquer Taiwan, I would implement a plan similar to the one Whinny the Pooh is. I would take out my target’s primary allies, and instill so much fear in others, that no one comes to their aid. One of the main goals of the invasion would be to capture the TSMC semiconductor plants. So the invasion would start with paratroopers landing there… during a distraction. The thing about any sea born invasion is… it’s a logistical nightmare. Supplying an army from a beach without infrastructure to offload freight is impossible. That’s why during the Normandy invasion, a vital goal was the deep water port of Cherbourg. The CCP will have to use a similar tactic… else fail.

The European countries are already tied up in their war to conquer Russia, and their internal migrant issues are hollowing out their civilizations from within… taking them out of the order of battle. All the CCP need do is help foment the chaos in Europe, and even with conscription, the EU won’t be able to field an effective force anytime soon. Plus, the migrants won’t fight, leaving only natives to fight… who are in demographic collapse as you read this. They aborted their children and so have none. The elites there think the migrant replacements will fight for them, but I suspect the elite will be replaced, by the migrants. The moment the natives are deleted. Whether by war, abortion or vaccine, the European race is on its way out. So the CCP doesn’t have to worry about a European army in Taiwan.

North Korea would attack the South to tie up the US troops stationed there. Moreover, with the US in a three or four fronted war by that time, there will be no reinforcements coming to Korea, let alone Taiwan. Supplies of ammo will be all but gone, since the US elite sent them to Ukraine. Rendering the tip of the spear pointless. There may be a few remnant US troops trapped on Taiwan but their numbers will make them irrelevant. Meanwhile the vaunted US navy will be tied up protecting the homeland, in Korea and the Middle East, so won’t have even a carrier group to throw at China. Perhaps Whinny the Poo’s greatest ace is Biden. His bought and paid for puppet. That 30 million wasn’t for honey… or was it? Which means the US can easily be taken off the chessboard by wise strategy.

Japan has to be cowed. Because Japan still has a navy and army. Who knows if this generation is as tough as their grandfather’s was, but who’s foolish enough to see? The CCP. So if Japan can be intimidated into remaining sidelined, along with the Philippines, the invasion will be smooth sailing. Other than the perpetual chaos and disruption of plans that accompanies kinetic engagement. Should Taiwan destroy their ports at the outset of invasion, as well as the TSMC semiconductor plants, the invasion will have gone sideways. Because even without allies, every inch of Taiwan is an improved position, due to terrain and cities. An army lacking supply in such a situation, faces the same fate as Germany’s 6 Army at Stalingrad. Expansion by war is a high stakes game.

Employing Alexander’s tactic against the Indian King Porus when crossing the Jhelum river, would be the final strategy… as the CCP is doing now. By constantly maneuvering troops in a threatening way, Whinny hopes Taiwan will become lackadaisical about it… then the CCP will strike. With the US and Japan out of the way, the Philippines will probably take the “safe” path, and stay out of it. Should the invasion of Taiwan go as hoped. The Philippines will be the next target of the CCP’s drang nach osten. Since I’m not the psychopathic nutcase despot ruler of China, this is all conjecture. He may decide to change course and make China a Constitutionally limited republic, or become a peacenik. Maybe space aliens will land. No matter, reflecting on the past, we can see the future, through a mirror darkly.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Solving Societal Problems

Posted on May 29, 2024 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if it’s true that, “You can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created the problem…” as Einstein said. Then all the problems we have, that were created by government, cannot be solved by government, and to try will only exacerbate them. One of the reasons government is unable to solve the problems it creates, is the people in charge are so far above the law, they look down on us. Another, is that the incentive is for government to grift from problems, not solve them. Often government created them for a reason. Maybe government is simply the wrong tool? No matter why government is unable to solve the problems it creates, it still can’t solve the problems it creates. So trying over and over, then failing, over and over, seems a solution begging to be replaced.

When people are above the law they naturally look down on the rest of us. Like ants. What do you do to ants? You step on them. So, the elite exploit law to control us, not themselves. The elite decide who is charged and for what. Today they openly choose the person to be charged, then find the crime. As in Trump’s case. Let’s face it, law is an ideal weapon. Those targeted have no recourse, other than violence, and violence simply justifies their abuse at the hands of the law. Law was, is and indeed always has been, the realm of Thrasymachus. So the elite are not as much unlikely to use law to solve problems they created but are certain not to. You don’t use the claw to pull nails from your construction… you use the hammer to drive them in. Problems are fasteners to a corrupt system.

Why should government solve problems when they’re so lucrative? Government doesn’t go to all the work to create problems for nothing. There’s always a reason. That reason is to increase their power, wealth and privilege. Any other rational is mere rhetoric. Every government law has a label, like it’s a good thing, but when passed does it’s literal opposite. That’s because they’re supposed to harm, not help, the benevolent sounding name is deception. Like 230 of the decency act… was supposed to enable websites to block child porn… but in fact abetted CP, while it was used to censor conservative content. Twitter was a cesspool of CP until Musk bought it and rooted the CP out. Problems provide bureaucrats with well paid jobs and retirements, and so, bureaucrats aren’t fixing them anytime soon.

You can drive a screw with a hammer, and you can get it back out with the claws, but a hammer and claw lacks the subtlety that’s a screwdriver. Government is like a hammer. It’s clumsy and has but one function… to coerce by force. It can make war, force laws on us or it can remove them… but it’s always and everywhere by force. That’s a point the libertarians get right. A law must apply to everyone (other than the elite) and so is brute force. Now, brute force is helpful when brute force is required, but when finesse, or personal attention is needed, brute force is harmful. No law can make people more moral, bureaucracy is a poor substitute for a father, and law cannot feed the hungry. You simply can’t legislate your way out of poverty, epidemics or despotism. Because government has but one mindset.

It was worth a try, to use government to solve problems… but it failed. History is adamant on this issue. The free market, fraternal organizations and individuals solve societal problems… government creates them. We follow our governments around cleaning up the messes they make. Until government becomes too big and the messes too extensive to be cleaned up, then civilization collapses… to be started anew. Governments create problems by ineptitude, stupidity and malevolence. Public servants and politicians created our problems, and won’t solve them… but are only too happy to try. Einstein was a smart fellow they say. Which means, the answer is less government, and more free markets, freedom, fraternal organizations, individualism… and we need leaders who will lead by example.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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