Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the UN is one example of how utterly corrupt, irrelevant, and counterproductive central planning must become. At that prestigious institution highly paid functionaries debate world events with all the gusto, intellect, and effect as a high school debate club, with better surroundings obviously. They back ever more centrally planned obsolescence in the form of a world bank, world court, and a world war. Coming up with “plans” much like Stalin or Mao’s “five year plans,” but to be imposed on the world instead of an unfortunate nation. Agenda 2030 and others have as a goal to centralize authority to get it away from individuals and local governments to one that’s so far away it might as well be floating among the clouds.
Corruption at the UN is legendary. From blue helmets abusing kids to the huge bribes Kofi Annan’s powerless son was taking in the Oil For Food scandal, with supposedly none of that money flowing up to the father… corruption at the UN is a culture. But it’s not the fault of those at the UN. The fault lies in human nature. When people are given power without consequence for failure, they must become arrogant. You or I would become just as corrupt as they. The problem of corruption isn’t finding saints, they don’t exist, the problem is that power itself is corrupting. Solon set up a series of laws, customs, and mores to keep anyone from amassing despotic power, but Pericles used those very institutions to make himself an arbitrary ruler. Showing laws can’t control avarice.
The UN spends around 67 billion dollars a year in total and amounts to no benefit but a great deal of harm. One could argue that UN vaccine initiatives that are claimed to have resulted in women being sterilized… are quite possibly eugenics experiments cloaked in vaccine distribution. Not unlike the Tuskegee experiments. The early progressives were open about their eugenics ideas. One must do a cost benefit calculation on those billions spent. If the outcome is harm and some good, don’t they cancel each other out? Making spending all those tens of billions of dollars… irrelevant? The money would be better left in the pockets of those who earned the money. They could have spent it in ways that would improve their lives… but the arrogant few at the UN would be out of a meal ticket.
The debate club that is the corrupt and irrelevant UN actually harms mankind. With agenda 2030 and such they create plans to usurp power from the people and put it into the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats. A laudable goal… if one is a demon. The would-be central planners at the UN would plan our cities to the street, our homes to the room, and our lives to the second. They consider themselves to be so much smarter than us they believe they can dictate from New York, Brussels or Beijing… how the rest of us should spend our lives. Even harvesting our organs if they see fit. Because they view people, you, me, and our loved ones… as chattel. No better than guinea pigs to be experimented on. Like a god would experiment on his creation. Except they aren’t gods nor can they create.
The UN is an institution that exists by legalized plunder… as Bastiat would say. Making its very existence a crime. Let alone its irrelevancy, as well as the harm, and corruption it fosters. Then again, the corruptocrats at the UN aren’t to blame. Yes they are probably psychopaths drawn to unaccountable power, and yes even if they went into it with ideals, they are now corrupt. Living in a cesspool makes one stink. So we can say that the UN and indeed all centrally planned systems are criminal in that they exist by legalized plunder, are corrupt in that the incentives are inexorable, and counterproductive because central planners are basically stupid. The UN then is merely an example of why central planning and centralized authority must fail. The incentives lead them to it.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
Limericks
Dear Friends,
Some folks have a violent bent,
Like driving a car into a tent,
They fill their cup,
But it’ll catch up,
And prison awaits that angry gent.
The ivory tower’s wrath is well renowned,
An echo chamber without a sound,
She’s just better,
An elite jet setter,
And dancing on us in an evening gown.
The law has strange and distorted shapes,
But law is pressed from wrathful grapes,
It serves the few,
So how good gets through,
Is blackmailing judges with the Epstein tapes.
Elites are singing the post nationalist song,
Provoking violence with a dash of wrong,
Now that the truth,
Is long in the tooth,
We find that Hegel was right all along.
There once was a corrupt elite named _______,
Who hated us all ________ a ________,
Connived in the _____,
In a pleasant ______,
And that corruptocrat ended up in the _______.
Sincerely,
John Pepin