ALAN writes:

In a conversation with my mother in 1966, I distinctly remember saying, “We are living in a sick society.”  Today I would abjure the medical metaphor but stand by the judgment.  At that moment I had in mind primarily the practice of coercion in the form of government-mandated schooling, government-forced conscription for young American men, and government-forced involvement in the Vietnam War.  People who called themselves “Conservatives” spoke in defense of all those things, so I concluded that there was also something not quite right with “Conservatives.”

Neither educating children, nor ordering free men to become soldiers, nor dragging such men into foreign wars whose combatants did not threaten one inch of American soil or any part of American liberty was any of government’s business, I thought in 1966.  It did not occur to me then that, in effect, I was declaring my opposition to Communism, which is of course the consummate expression of coercion writ large.

“I only wish I did not have children, for their future, I know, will be one terror at the hands of the Soviet America.”

So wrote novelist Janet Taylor Caldwell in a letter to a friend in 1965.

A year later, although I was much younger than her, I had begun to sense elements of evil in American life.

Imagine what Mrs. Caldwell would say if she were here today and could see our Thought Police, Speech Police, Hate Police, and Mask Police; and how easily Americans now agree to obey their central government when it commands them to take their vaccine like good little boys and girls; and how it threatens to use coercion against those who dare to defy its totalitarian schemes.  Is there a better example of the terror that she saw coming?  Imagine what Lawrence Auster would say.

———-

The difference between what Americans once were and what they are today is metaphysical; it is in their worldview, their frame of mind, their attitude toward government, authority, responsibility, and liberty.  Whereas Americans once invoked words like “Don’t tread on me” and “Keep your paws off me!” to express their distrust of government, their descendants today look upon government as their friend, their ally, their protector and benefactor, their “partner”, and a source of truth, knowledge, wisdom and healthcare – a perspective that I suggest would have sent the American Founding Fathers into gales of laughter or spasms of nausea.  It certainly would have had that effect on my father and my uncles.

———-

Last summer, I heard a police officer say, “We must continue to wear masks and keep locked down.”  Why?  “Because the government says so.”  He asserted both statements twice, as if repetition would reduce their absurdity, thereby proving he has the qualifications to become a TV news anchor or Congressclown.

Soviet America in capsule form:  An argument from authority is said to be valid because it comes from Government.  Could the Communists wish for idiots more useful to them than such witless police officers?  Should we believe that 2 and 2 make 5 if “the government says so”…?
———-

I know a woman whose family fled with their lives from a Communist government in Hungary in 1956 and came to the USA.  They were happy to live in a country without fear of the American government tyrannizing them.  In a recent message, she told me they thought they had escaped from government tyranny for good.  Until now.

“Coming into America was like coming into heaven,” Deanna Durbin’s character says in the wonderful 1943 motion picture “The Amazing Mrs. Holliday.”

Doubtless that feeling was shared by my friend and her family and thousands of others like them in 1956-’57.  But all of that is gone. Now, late in their lives and mine, they see that the American government has become just another tyrant.  I sympathize with her and her brothers and can imagine the horror their parents would feel if they were here today.

———-

“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” — Euripides.  It would be wrong to say that modern Americans have “lost” that sense, because they never had it to begin with.

———-

The Bill of Rights was created as a means for guaranteeing the rights of individuals against government.  Modern Americans have inverted that principle by surrendering tyrannical power to a deadly alliance of their central government, giant corporations, and the mass  communications/propaganda/brainwashing industries.

The most enthusiastic defenders of the American Government’s decades-long (and endless) “War on Drugs” are now the most militant in demanding that all Americans now permit dangerous drugs to be inserted into their bodies by that same government or by racketeers backed by the police power of the State.  People who think it proper or acceptable for their government to pursue either of those policies richly deserve the consequences of such folly.

———-

If a gangster arrives at my door and says he wants to talk but does not smile, I might agree to listen to him.

If a gangster arrives at my door, smiling effusively and saying that he is from “the gov’ment” and is here to “help” me, I would slam the door in his face.

———-

No one who in initiates the use of force or fraud against another person or group of people has any claim to credibility.  Force nullifies credibility.

The fundamental moral-philosophical principle articulated by Ayn Rand is that men may never initiate the use of force or fraud against anyone else and never allow anyone else to initiate the use of force or fraud against them.  The United States Government now initiates the use of both against American citizens, just as the totalitarian Soviet Communist government did against Russian citizens who failed to obey its tyrannical laws and arbitrary commands.

———-

The claim that people who are healthy but not “vaccinated” are causing other people to get sick or die is an absurdity.  It is typical of a population of infantile-witted, credulous men and women to elevate such an absurdity to a principle by which to organize their lives.

Modern Americans have inverted the traditional relation of customer to salesman, of client to “expert”, of patient to “doctor”.  For most of their history, Americans took it for granted that it is always the customer, the client, or the patient who decides to purchase a product or service—never the salesman, the “expert”, or the “doctor”; that they have a right to offer their products or services but no right whatever to force customers, clients, or patients to accept or purchase those things.  They understood that salesman, experts, and doctors should always be on tap, but never on top.  Earlier generations of Americans knew how to deal with salesmen who would not take NO for an answer.  They also knew that a government that would not take NO for an answer had become a tyrant, not a friend.

Modern Americans have thrown that wisdom out the window.  Instead of defending their rights and their liberty against government, they now yield, line up to become victims of this, that, or another shill, “expert”, or “doctor”, and vilify anyone who questions the self-serving advice of those “experts”, doctors, and shills.

———-

My judgments:  There is no Killer Virus.  There never was.  What is called a Killer Virus is nothing more than the common cold or seasonal flu, repackaged, relabeled, and sold to a population of semi-literate, dumbed down boy-men and girly-women.  What are falsely attributed to a Killer Virus are nothing more than the effects of the common cold or seasonal flu.

There is no “pandemic”.  There never was.  What is called a “pandemic” is a Plandemic.

The political usefulness of a fake virus, a “lockdown”, and emergency “vaccines” was foreseen, mapped out, and rehearsed years ago.

There are no “lockdowns”.  What are called “lockdowns” are totalitarian Takedowns intended to demoralize Americans, disarm them morally and philosophically, weaken what little remains of the traditional family, promote conflict, and destroy both private businesses and the very idea of private property.

Unfortunately there is also negligible resistance to those Takedowns by Americans who have proven themselves to be the most gullible people in all recorded history.

People who accept as legitimate a government that infantilizes them richly deserve to be infantilized.

———-

Janet Caldwell wrote in 1964:  “As an Irish-Scots woman, I feel more cynical than despairing.  I think the American people deserve exactly what they now have!  I can’t wait to see what their captors will do to them!  I am eagerly looking forward to the most bloody street-riots and mayhem and terror in the streets.  A people deserve just what they get – and America deserves her looming fate…..”

I agree emphatically.

— Comments —

George Weinbaum writes:

Thanks.

I’ve been saying similar things for about 30 years.

When I was in fifth grade we had what today would be called a “module”.  We spent two weeks on forms of propaganda and logical fallacies.  One fallacy was: argumentum ad verecundiam.  What passes for logic today would not have gotten by any kid in in that fifth grade class! Force?  Argumentum ad baculum!

Please follow and like us: