- When the founders of this country and
the subsequent generations who built it created the most successful nation
on earth, little did they realize that in their success they were sowing
the seeds for ultimate destruction of the country. The time would come
when the progressively soft environment created by social and economic
progress would produce progressively soft and corrupt generations that
eventually could not maintain what had been passed on to them and the nation
would simply crumble and collapse from within. Paradoxically, the greatest
enemy of this country has turned out to be the success of the greatest
vision in
- history.
-
-
- As part of this decay process there is
universal dissatisfaction with a
- government in this country that is both
powerless to handle the
- degeneration taking place and at the
same time has become a tool of that
- degeneration. Concurrently, there are
demands that government "do more for
- the people" while spending less
money.
-
- We now have an extensive electorate that
is so mindless as to be
- impossible. They seek candidates who
speak their language, then become
- highly incensed when office-holders turn
out to be as hopeless as the
- people who elected them. It's a grim
fact that the Phil Donahue cultural
- axis mentality isn't likely to either
recognize or support candidates of
- the quality of a James Madison.
-
- The greatest contemporary factor determining
governability of the nation
- is pathology and psychological decay.
One aspect of this is a pathological
- incapacity to separate and limit personal
boundaries combined with
- pathological precision-avoiding, self-protective
levels of abstraction.
-
- Since the mid-sixties there has been
continuing evolution of an extensive
- population that is exasperatingly psychopathological
in a peculiar way.
- They demand to have the authority and
freedom of adults. They neither act
- like intelligent responsible adults nor
have any apparent intention of
- doing so. They can synthesize endless
highly engineered sociological
- arguments and they believe they know
everything. Yet, when there are
- unpleasant consequences to their behavior,
they demand to assume the role
- of innocent little children who are somehow
the victims of that unknowing
- innocence. They demand the level of accountability
and responsibility of
- pampered children. They demand unconditionally
loving parent surrogates
- who will pick up after them. They are
simultaneously characterized by an
- infantile rebelliousness so irrational
that they are prepared to defy the
- law of gravity.
-
- The Democratic Party has clearly become
the force for channeling and
- implementing borderline-psychotic demands
into the political-governmental
- structure of this country. A number of
Democratic office-holders are
- little more than caricatures and expressions
of the contempt for the world
- held by the angry children they represent.
Bitterness and contempt is the
- only thing they are fit to represent.
Caricatures and expressions of
- contempt cannot run this country.
-
- There is a pathological conceptual pattern
of that seen in a small child
- running deep in the Democratic Party.
There is an absence of the concept
- of instrumentality or prudent foresight
either in producing negative
- consequences or its necessity to produce
positive circumstances. There is,
- rather, a series of unreasonable demands
as to how things should be
- regardless of personal behavior, of antecedent
conditions, or of
- resources. Within this concept, simple
demands are expected to be
- sufficient to produce desirable consequences.
The focus of responsibility
- in society is for others to meet those
demands, not the personal
- responsibility of individuals to conduct
lives so that demands are not
- necessary. There is an unconscious belief
in Unconditional Entitlement
- without specific direction and disciplined
effort.
-
- The "Right" to a Job
-
- New York Governor Mario Cuomo gave what
was reported as the best speech at
- the 1992 Democratic convention. His delivery
was flawless. But the speech
- content was pathological and dangerous.
It was also representative of
- thought at the convention.
-
- Cuomo made assertions that were, or should
be, frightening. One of these
- assertions was that everyone has a right
to a job. This assertion
- irrationally separates the existence
of jobs from the preconditions or
- instrumentality necessary to create them.
Jobs are conditional. Jobs exist
- if, and only if, businesses and industries
successfully develop or expand
- to create them. If no one creates and
maintains business and industries,
- then there will be no jobs. If business
and industries are destroyed, then
- the jobs those businesses and industries
support are destroyed. It takes
- ten or twenty years of effort on someone's
part to build a business that
- creates jobs. If the people who attempt
to build business or industries
- are hampered or destroyed, then jobs
will not be created. If the economy
- functions, jobs are maintained. If the
economy is destroyed, jobs are
- destroyed. If the economy is destroyed
so that fewer taxes can be
- collected, there won't even be any government
jobs or programs. Empty
- assertions that jobs are a political
right do not change that.
-
- Jobs are no different than food. If the
fields are not tilled, there will
- be no food. Food is not a political right.
It is a consequence of
- intelligent effort. Employment is like
food. If people do not build
- businesses and industries, there will
not be employment.
-
- Any man of character and intelligence
would be embarrassed to make the
- statements Mario Cuomo makes. However,
the child-like mentality of modern
- liberalism does not recognize the reality
of necessary prerequisite
- conditions to be fulfilled for the existence
of employment or anything
- else, but only recognizes what it wants
unconditionally.
-
- I don't know whether Cuomo believes what
he says. He's reputed to be one
- of the best minds in the Democratic Party
and has been recommended as a
- contender for the Supreme Court. That
he even has a mind would be rejected
- by anyone of authentic intellectual maturity.
The belief that Cuomo is one
- of the best in the Democratic Party tells
the world there are great
- numbers of people who believe what he
is saying. If they believed that
- what he said was ludicrously in error,
he would not be hailed as
- brilliant, nor would he have been a major
speaker at the convention.
-
- If Cuomo believes what he says, he's
seriously mentally defective. If he
- doesn't believe it, but voices it, he's
little more than a psychopath
- seeking to feed social pathology for
personal or ideological gain. In
- either case he's pathological and dangerous.
To the extent that he
- reflects the view of the Democratic Party,
the Democratic Party is
- pathological and dangerous. To the extent
the Democratic Party represents
- the thinking of people in this country,
those people have become dangerous
- to each other and to themselves.
-
- A second point Cuomo made in his speech
that brought standing applause was
- that people, presumably meaning Republicans
or others advocating family
- values or rational morality, should not
push their personal morality upon
- others. Presumably, private life and
private morality should be a personal
- decision and be personal issues.
-
- The problem with the so-called private
morality and personal decisions
- that Cuomo and those like him refer to
is that they have not been, and are
- not being, kept private and personal.
These private and personal decisions
- are part of a sequence of events. While
the first action in this sequence
- of events is demanded to be made on the
basis of private and personal
- decision, meaning a person does what
he or she wants to at any moment,
- there is no intention to keep the subsequent
events in the sequence a
- private and personal matter. There are
demands to make the consequences
- and subsequent events a public financial
responsibility through the
- intermediary of government. There are
demands for unconditional social
- acceptance and an underwriting of the
support and costs. This is not a
- private morality. This is a spoiled child's
demand for economic and
- psychological support for cradle to grave
excesses which in the name of
- social sensitivity are not even permitted
to be recognized as aggressive
- imposition upon others and as pathology.
-
- That attitude is killing this nation.
-
- Someone Else Is to Blame
-
- Consider Magic Johnson. Beneath his superficial
charm, basketball player
- Magic Johnson is a big spoiled kid with
no personal character who feels
- personal unconditional entitlement. He
went through an endless stream of
- women with indifference to anything but
his own amusement and finally
- brought home a case of AIDS. Somehow
he believed that his problem, are you
- ready for this, was a lack of presidential
leadership and he was angry at
- President Bush, who happened to be president
at the time Magic contracted
- the disease and issued his angry protests.
-
- Magic is unfortunately living under a
death sentence from AIDS, but it
- doesn't exempt him from personal responsibility.
His problem is not that
- he failed to use a condom, but that he
failed to use a brain. That is not
- said out of meanness or vindictiveness.
It is said out of simple complete
- exasperation.
-
- Magic, with the support of many others,
voiced the ridiculous and
- conveniently vague complaint that President
Bush failed to exercise
- leadership or failed to speak out on
AIDS, or something. Put this in the
- perspective of hundreds of magazine articles,
hundreds of news pieces and
- hundreds of TV spot announcements per
week on AIDS. The concept that Mr.
- Johnson and millions of others like him
have a personal responsibility to
- examine the seriousness of what they
are doing has become an unacceptable
- concept. Someone else is to blame.
-
- The President didn't exercise leadership.
Why is the President of the
- United States responsible for explaining
to an adult married man (or what
- should be a man) who is indiscriminately
hopping in beds with unknown
- people? There is suspicion that advice
of "Just say no" wouldn't have been
- viewed as acceptable leadership. That
advice might have been the best
- advice, and it's the advice that desperately
needs to be taken; but it's
- not the leadership Johnson or others
are looking for. It elicits a new set
- of tantrums from people such as Mario
Cuomo over interference into
- personal decisions and private morality.
-
- So we have the ridiculous situation of
an adult man attempting to blame
- the president for his sex life, or for
something, and being widely
- supported in that position.
-
- So, by left wing logic, everyone is to
have the president running behind
- them cautioning them to use some sort
of prudence in their personal lives,
- while Mario Cuomo simultaneously screams
about intrusion into personal
- decisions and lives before hysterical
crowds. The same primitive
- compartmented mentality is in a state
of indignant protest over opposing
- sides of its own demands.
-
- There is basically no way of pleasing
immature people who refuse to make
- intelligent choices in their adult lives.
When they destroy themselves,
- they become angry at you for the consequences.
If you propose a choice,
- they become angry at you for the inconvenience
of having to give up an
- amusement for their own survival, the
survival of the nation, or the
- survival of the rights of others.
-
- This is the mind-boggling attitude. We
have an extensive population in
- this country, including some famous,
entertaining, and powerful people,
- that you can beg and plead with not to
do something. You can put TV spots
- and write magazine articles giving them
good reason not to do it. They'll
- do it anyway in spite of all reason.
Then they'll blame you and the world
- when they destroy themselves and they
insist on being viewed as being
- victims. As supposed victims they believe
they are owed compensation for
- their condition.
-
- Pleas for the absolute necessity to curb
personal excesses invariably
- elicit several reflexive replies. "That's
not realistic." "That's not
- going to happen." Or, "That's
not possible." Or, "This is the nineties."
- These assertions are employed in such
an authoritative tone as to suggest
- they reference an unquestionably proven
major principle that must be at
- least as valid as the fundamental theorem
of calculus. This tactic effects
- closure of the issue while attributing
a ludicrous irrationality to
- desperate pleas for restoration of sensibility.
-
- For those who need help on this, "That's
not realistic" does not in this
- case reference a prime pillar of philosophical
wisdom. It is merely
- encryption of an angry spoiled brat's
declaration that he or she has every
- intention of doing whatever it is, no
matter what. The "no matter what" is
- occurring and is serious. Yes, this IS
the nineties. The nineties are in
- some respects the same as any other decade.
Living successfully in the
- nineties requires self-discipline, foresight,
appropriate respect for
- others, and basic realistic intelligence.
These are life prerequisites. It
- doesn't make any difference whether it
was life in the twenties or life in
- the nineties. It hasn't and won't ever
change. The difference between this
- and other periods is that since the sixties
we have had large proportions
- of generations who refuse to acknowledge
and live by that reality.
-
- Forty-five years ago the principle issues
and purpose of government were
- defense, public works, roads, bridges,
education, economics, the care of
- widows and orphans. If those were still
the problems facing government,
- governing this nation would be easy.
If the contemporary population of
- this country were conducting their lives
in such a manner that those were
- still the primary issues facing the government,
then governing this nation
- would be easy.
-
- Today, major issues are: how to deal
with the problem of people having
- out-of-wedlock children with the same
seriousness as they pursue the
- newest dance fad; how to prevent fops
in this country from importing
- hundreds of billions of dollars in recreational
drugs while financing the
- pathways that make the stuff available
in schoolyards; how to approach
- discussing the realities of abortion
while people have
- pathologically-induced, floridly promiscuous
sex lives; how to provide
- day-care for uncared-for children so
irresponsible parents can continue
- single life styles; what to do about
babies being born addicted to heroin
- or cocaine; how to keep people from killing
each other with AIDS with sex
- partners not known well enough to know
what they have or don't have; what
- to do about children of divorced couples
in a nation of adults who are
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