“Drink is the work of the cursing class”. That’s what we’ve come to. It was funny when there was a choice between work and drink. For large segments of Britain, it seems, there isn’t. They are destined to be unemployed.
I ask again: what is more humane, giving people the opportunity to work at lower wages than many around them are getting; or forcing wages up and jobs down, such that those who have jobs are paid better than they would have been, and the rest forced to languish helplessly?
Helplessness is always a cancer. It eats away at the soul. In many respects, these British riots are logical. They are logical to the extent that a social order which compels upon them dependence must expect that the only way for them to express anger will be abstract, and at the world, at the invisible forces which have been forcing them to kneel their entire lives.
In my view, no person consciously chooses life-long dependence, except the very worst. Yet, people who for the duration of their lives are given no option are bound to feel the need to express their energy in some way. If it can’t be expressed positively, through work, through community service (no doubt run “benignly” by the State), then it will be expressed through crime.
We need to be clear that the growth of a generalized prosperous middle class is disastrous for socialists. It undermines their very reason for being, and their political commitments are not just their source of political power and income, but also their very reason for living, for working. “Protecting” others gives them something to do, which they otherwise lack. Hating or disbelieving in God, they need someone to need them, to protect them from their nihilism.
And so they have assiduously engineered permanent underclasses. They take away the jobs, but assure unemployment. Their consciences are clear, even as they are ruining millions of lives.
I posted this Judas Priest video some time ago. Consider the lyrics, and dominant emotional tone. This was in 1980.