Read.
Think (including why "collectivism" should replace "fascism" in the title above).
Any questions where we will be in another decade?
Hint: Idiocracy was a satiric warning, not a misty-eyed gaze into a future utopia.
And home-schooled folks?
What do they think of the democratic process, in which the vote of each classically-educated individual will likely be blocked by the votes of a Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon?
Yes, collectivism could replace fascism in that title, that would make it only slightly more broad because nearly all collectivist systems degenerate into fascism, usually shortly after formation of the collectivist state and folks realize that pure communism can't function.
ReplyDeleteA lot of un- or undereducated people continue to refer to Obama as a communist, but he's fascist through and through, a near copy of Mussolini after World War One and through his first ten years.
Arriving at the "Idiocracy" can only be prevented by denial of any input as to how things are run by those without the wherewithal to have rational input. Yes, that will mean reducing who can vote on these things, until we have no need for a vote any longer. That will be in a future that I'm not going to be a part of at all, because I'm unlikely to live long enough, my age is my enemy.
When voting is no longer a possible method of preventing tyranny because of Delta, Epsilon, and Gamma, as far as the "System" is concerned we find ourselves at Omega.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to try something else. I'm no longer certain restoration is worthwhile either, as what came before certainly didn't work for very long, as nations and civilizations are dated.
Pat H:
ReplyDeleteUs older fellows might be the luckiest of all.
I know I will not live in their utopian wet dream, one way or another.
For justice' sake, and my own satisfaction, I hope to make them pay dearly for their idiocy and destruction before I happily "lay me down with a will."