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"Observe that any social movement which begins by 'redistributing' income... " - Ayn Rand

Posted by GaltsGulch 7 years ago to The Gulch: General
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"Observe that any social movement which begins by 'redistributing' income, ends up by distributing sacrifices." - Ayn Rand

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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 7 years ago
    Rand sure had a handle on the truth. The sole goal of all socialists is control via the equitable distribution of misery amongst the non-elite.
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    • Posted by roneida 7 years ago
      J-1R1776 ... So simple and straightforward a concept but it falls on humans raised and bombarded with the superstitious propaganda that without the main purpose of life being to sacrifice your life for others, you are a waste product that should die. The tough nut in this B S lies in deciding who the "deserving??" others are....who decides??? Charles Darwin knew. and told those who listen....
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      • Posted by j_IR1776wg 7 years ago
        roneida

        I'm trying to write a book explaining why this is so i.e. Why all governments are based on force. It will include

        " I believe that the child should be stimulated and controlled in his work through the life of the community." John Dewey My Pedagogic Creed

        " I believe that we violate the child's nature and render difficult the best ethical results, by introducing the child too abruptly to a number of special studies, of reading, writing, geography, etc., out of relation to this social life." Ibid.

        ” It turns out that compulsory education, a feat accomplished during the Progressive Era, was also a compulsory indoctrination into Progressive
        thought and twentieth-century Protestantism. Arthur Calhoun stated in 1919, “The fondest wish of Utopian writers was coming true, the child was
        passing from its family into the custody of community experts.” 6

        "The power to shape children’s futures was taken from their parents and put into the hands of the government. Starting in this era, as John Swett, the founder of public education in California, stated, schoolchildren belonged not “to the parents, but to the State, to society, to the country.” 7

        7. Quoted in Rothbard, “The Progressive Era and the Family.”

        Theodore and Woodward Andrew P. Napolitano
        Harper Collins Christian 2012

        The socialist invasion of the mind snatchers of children has rendered America near to helpless in preventing this descent into darkness.
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        • Posted by roneida 7 years ago
          I was born in 1940, so Iwent through, not with, the hippie scare of the 60's. they hated America as much as the present socialist/libs do but realized they could never take America over through force or military action. So they did what their heroes, Lenin and marx taught, Take over the education system and in 3 generations the victims will come to you and ask to be educated your way.. IT Worked with no guns or shots being fired.. No we have adults living on childish wants, superstitions and falsehoods that have no reality training.nor practical lessons.I want, I want has more respect than I think... emotion based reality governs...NO THINKING REQUIRED.
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          • Posted by j_IR1776wg 7 years ago
            Well said roneida. Three years after you were born Ayn Rand published The Fountainhead. It contained Ellswoth Tooheys speech "How to rule Souls" which begins

            "What do you want Ellsworth ?"

            "Power, Petey. I want to rule. Like my spiritual predecessors. But I’m luckier than they were. I inherited the fruit of their efforts and I shall be the one who’ll see the great dream made real. I see it all around me today. I recognise it. I don’t like it. I didn’t expect to like it. Enjoyment is not my destiny. I shall find such satisfaction as my capacity permits. I shall rule."

            "Whom...?"

            "You. The world. It’s only a matter of discovering the lever. If you learn how to rule one single man’s soul, you can get the rest of mankind. It’s the soul, Peter, the soul. Not whips or swords or fire or guns. That’s why the Caesars, the Attilas, the Napoleons were fools and did not last. We will. The soul, Peter, is that which can’t be ruled. It must be broken. Drive a wedge in, get your fingers on it – and the man is yours. You won’t need a whip – he’ll bring it to you and ask to be whipped. Set him in reverse – and his own mechanism will do your work for you. Use him against himself. Want to know how it’s done? See if I ever lied to you. See if you haven’t heard all this for years, but didn’t want to hear, and the fault is yours, not mine..."

            The balance can be found at http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and...

            Sadly her fiction has become our reality. Philosophies have consequences. Inculcating one into a society requires patience and tenacity. The Collectivists have done their insidious best over the past hundred and twenty years and have succeeded. I have no idea what it will take to re-introduce Reason and Logic and Objectivism into America nor how much time it will require.

            Joe Gabriele
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      • Posted by Herb7734 7 years ago
        Boring into the brain through teachers, parents, church, and the general population, the concept of altruism and self-sacrifice, is touted a that which is to be greatly admired. Books, novel, TV, Movies, are all telling everyone that whatever you are, you should happy to immolate yourself for the benefit of others. It's a wonder that anyone rises up from the mire caused by this prevailing attitude.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years ago
    This reminds me of a conversation I had very late last night. I told a life-long friend of mine that there are two books she should read: Atlas Shrugged and The Stones Cry Out (about a Cambodian Childhood).

    Written by somebody who was a child at the time - Stones repeatedly has stories of kids being forced to work all day to build a road with a little shovel and bucket while constantly being told they "need to sacrifice for the betterment of others" as they slowly starve to death. Life-changing book for me.
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    • Posted by awebb 7 years ago
      Thanks for the recommendation. I'll add The Stones Cry Out to my reading list.
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      • Posted by $ Abaco 7 years ago
        Excellent. When I read it I remember putting it down after the first chapter and really thinking about whether or not I wanted to pick it back up. I knew it would take me to dark places. Wasn't it Nietzche who said that when you stare into the abyss it stares back into you? I was really moved by this book, by how it was written. So much so that I found the author and connected with her. Not to spoil it but in the story there is a little girl who's basically abandoned to starve (her family was all dead and the village tossed her aside). She ended up surviving and I even got to ask the author about her and pass on a note from me. Pretty incredible stuff...Collectivism repeatedly brings modern humanity to its very darkest places.
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