Dear Friends,
It seems to me, a well meaning person can be correct in their assessment, but wrong in their conclusion. Take anarchists for example. Their assessment of our institutions is intuitively correct, and they speak the truth as they know it, yet the means they advocate will not achieve the ends they desire. While I agree, the psychopathic element in our population gravitates to positions of power, then use those positions to feed their narcissism, my conclusion is different. I am of the opinion that it is not just other people that are the problem. If I were born in Mao’s place, I might have been worse… or better, but I don’t know which, nor do you. I think we need a system that mutes the ability of psychopaths in power to harm, that doesn’t turn good people evil, and rewards virtue and merit.
Marx was correct in many of his assessments. In his day the working class had it pretty bad. Better than the farmers, peasants and serfs, which is why they migrated to the city to be workers instead. Nevertheless, they worked long hours, for subsistence pay and were treated as cattle. Marx view was a snapshot of the market system however. Making his correct assessments, based on an instant, of that instant, correct only in that instant. Therefore his conclusions were utterly wrong. That is why Marx predicted the mechanical loom would lead to, “A forest of arms looking for work, and as that forest grows ever thicker and the arms themselves ever thinner…” Yet, that loom gave the worker easier labor, more pay and the luxury of wearing a wool coat to keep warm, instead of stuffing his shirt with straw.
If you or I were born in 1920 Germany, I am not sure we would have been Dietrich Bonhoeffers, more likely, given the chance, you and I would have joined the Hitler youth, Gestapo or Abwehr. So, if you or I might have been the most horrible people that ever lived, had we lived in that time and place, then it doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to judge them deficient. Instead we should rectify the environments that create such people. Nazis were generated by the times, culture and economy they were raised in. They were not unique to history nor were they more violent than other people polluted by their environment. ANTIFA and BLM for example. All three spew from the same sewer. Which means, it is not the individual, but the environment that is the problem.
An environment that leads to people joining ANTIFA, the Young Turks or the Schutzstaffel… is one where the youth are alienated from their culture, and so seek to create a new culture. One that empowers them instead of someone else. It instills hopelessness in the people. Which is why the elite preach atheism. Atheism is the religion of nihilism. Wrath, envy and pride are called virtues. It is of the utmost importance that the young be taught absurdity instead of educated. All of this starts with erasing our stake in society. Teach us we have no stake and we will torch our own house with glee. Such an environment serves to create people who want only to destroy, not build, enlighten or repair. If we don’t want Nazis then, our role is to control the environment, so we don’t get them.
What would a system look like that controlled the environment? Politically, government would lead by example, be transparent by default, populist instead of elitist, propaganda would be illegal, the Right to individual privacy would be strictly enforced, the elite would be held to the law, by a police dedicated to that purpose, themselves transparent and subject to oversight, our Constitution as intended and amended would be enforced with criminal penalties, and there would be term limits at every level of politics. Socially, it would have private schools publicly funded, Christianity would be welcomed back into the public square, and there would be outrage at atrocity instead of normalcy. Culturally, families would be cherished, we would follow the golden rule, and people would be independent.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
