Odds and ends

I was noodling around Amazon looking at my Wish List, which includes a number of conservative classics, and came across Robert Nisbet’s “The Quest for Community”, published in 1953.  I have not read it, but he apparently argues that modern alienation–which is to say cultural decay–leads more or less directly to the need for totalitarianism.  I have been arguing much the same for some time: if people are not taught coherent moral narratives, which define who they are, what they should do, and create a place for them–then through decay, through entropy, the much less complex, much less rich order of master and servant arises naturally.

Here is my point: gay marriage is not just an attack on the Christianity, but also an attack on the traditional institution of the family outright.  I have felt this, but I don’t think put it quite this bluntly.  As such, it is one more step in the direction of tyranny.

I saw a self proclaimed “artist” mouthing Keynesian doctrine to one of my Facebook friends the other day, and confronted with the vigourous and ineluctable contradictions in the basic tenets of the faith, more or less throw up her hands and say “I don’t support money, anyway.”  Ha, ha.

I see these apparently decent people simply choosing to decay, choosing to abandon reason, choosing, in effect, to support mass violence and tyranny, by simply tuning out, watching Family Guy every night, blowing a J, and simply not giving a fuck.  These are Obama voters.  This is the lifeless, thoughtless mindset which left wing propaganda is intended to create.

The most clever propaganda coup the Left has ever pulled has been getting popular opinion to locate Fascism on the political right.  The right is God and Country.  The right is Liberalism, and political diversity.

Fascism is merely to the right of full-blown Communism.  It is a system in which the government–which is quite separate from the people, and speaks for them, but does not answer to them–controls everything.  Because it allows private enterprise, people confuse it with being pro-business.

What in fact happens is that the government rewards large corporations with a great deal of money, if they support the government.  It punishes small business, since it is harder to control, and simply lets the rich get richer, while the politicians get more and more power.

Fascism is a system in which, for example, the leaders routinely take enormous contributions from large corporate donors, and rewards them with lucrative contracts, and legislation which increases the burdens of their competitors.

Life under Obama is increasingly Fascist.  As I have said often, the goal both of Keynes and the Fabians with whom he kept in close contact was to implement tyranny so slowly that nobody noticed until it was too late.

What I just realized the other day is that a critical GOAL of Obamacare is to put stress on small business.  It was likely sponsored by and for the mega-corporations whose healthcare plans already meet applicable standards.  It won’t affect them at all.  But it will be ENORMOUSLY damaging to the mom and pop places which create most of the jobs, and make life somewhat decent.

Thus, in another one of those ironies which virtually define the mental illness of what I will simply call Cultural Sadeism–even those who claim ignorance of the end goal understand on some level why they are attracted to zombie movies–the very people who are most vocal about “buying local” are supporting policies which will hurt those very businesses.  They are further supporting the very Fascism they claim to oppose.  They are building up the very corporations they claim to oppose.

If you are not a thinking, reacting, reflecting human being, you are not good.  Everything starts with perception, if you are sincere.  It cannot be otherwise.