Dear Friends,
It seems to me, elitists are fervently making the claim, giving a tiny cadre of people unlimited power over the rest of us, power without consequence if you will, globally, will result in a good outcome for humanity. Resulting in a global utopia like Star Trek. I disagree. If anyone is given unlimited power without consequences, it will result in Hell on Earth. Moreover, history suggests I’m right, and the elite are wrong. I’m sure there are plenty of elites, and experts, who earnestly believe that elitism is the solution to the problems elitism has visited on us. People who are driven by the goal of a Star Trek like utopia, and for such a worthy destination, would commit any atrocity. Because heaven is on the other side of that door. I’m arguing hell is on the other side… not heaven.
Human nature is like water, it takes the easiest path into the ground. Only when it sets in clay does it stay puddled. Clay represents consequences for wrong action. Sand is a total lack of consequences. No drop once landing in sand can resist immediately seeping into it. Even the saints, like Augustine, admitted this. Our nature is to seep into the ground. Staying puddled at the surface, or in other words, moral acting, takes clay. Consequences for actions, cultural, social and legal. Cultural first, social next and finally after much deliberation, legal. The elitist would like to fashion a stainless steel bowl for the rest of us while lounging in sand. Yet fail to understand the power of leading by example. Their example is our goal… into virtue or vice. Regardless of the vessel holding us back.
People aren’t angels and unlimited power always proves it. Power without consequence is like sand to the soul. Moreover it’s hydrophilic sand. No matter how honest the drop is, the moment it hits the sand it seeps in. No human being can resist the sponge of power without consequence. History is nothing but a litany of examples. Nero, Tamerlane, and Mao to name a few. To not understand this basic quality of human nature exhibits a supreme lack of wisdom. It’s in fact stupidity writ large. So the people who believe in elitism, earnestly, pathologically or manipulatively, are too unwise to run a race, let alone the world, economy and everyone’s life. Allowing such people to have and keep unlimited power without consequence would be stupid of us.
What we have then are stupid people, willing to commit any atrocity to get their utopia, in charge of the world today. We know they’re elitists because they denigrate and vilify populism. Using the term as a pejorative. Further, proving their stupidity by censoring opinions they disagree with. Exposing their utter lack of self awareness. Only someone self blind, arrogant and stupid has the supreme egoism to presume to censor another. Then there’s the pragmatic argument of outcome. The results of the last few years of administrative state rule have delivered war, inflation, crime, a drug overdose death crisis, invasion and cultural collapse. Pragmatically, the people in charge have failed. They’ve failed by every measure, so pragmatically, they need to go.
Cultural, social and legal consequences are a feedback that keep us from becoming too pathological. They’re the clay. Unlimited power by definition turns it to sand. As consequences have been removed from our elites today. They’ve become stupid people who censor the opinions of wiser people, to further their aim of a Star Trek style utopia. A goal that’s so great it justifies any atrocity. The elite today exist in sand as they fashion a steel bowl of surveillance for us. Believing it’ll hold us, while they fulfill their most heinous fantasies… like Caligula. Let’s use some bentonite… to limit their power without consequence. There are cultural consequences for pedophilia, social consequences for narcissism, and legal ones for crime. Apply them to get rid of the stupid criminal failures.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
