Life Matters - April 19, 2023
The god of big government is nothing new, but with the advent of communism, which is applied socialism, has become arguably the most sinister, the most hypocritical, and the most deadly (to its own citizens) of governments ever to have existed on planet Earth. Communism was begun with the euphoric promise that once the new social order, released from the shackles of capitalism, was further evolved and properly implemented, then said social order would function on its own. Propelled by its purity and the inherent goodwill of properly evolved human beings, government would become unnecessary and would eventually be so irrelevant as to “wither away.” In the past decade, communism entered the second century of its existence and we may now ask, “Why?” Why has this great contradiction of its own creed, the communist manifesto, not withered away? Why has this great contradiction only become bigger, deadlier, and more contradictory to itself with each passing decade? When communism in the USSR and its subordinate satellites collapsed in the 90s, “exhausted by the pace of its own brutality,” as a journalist put it, at least one of the “whys”, if not more, were opened up for an astonished world to see. The lavish lifestyles of communism’s “elites,” who ruled impoverished citizens with an iron hand that pushed and prodded said citizens along on the “narrow path” leading to an elusive “utopia” hidden somewhere in the fog of an unknown future, was astonishing indeed.
The over-the-top extravagant lifestyle of Ceausescu of Romania with his numerous palaces, private-owned reserves and private stag hunts for him and his supporting cronies, the tables laden with choice foods, wines and vodka, while average citizens struggled for survival, are now recorded in the infamous pages of communism. The hypocritical opulence of communist leaders making speeches, passing resolutions for a promising future of equity that never materialized, while the middle class disappeared, only has three common denominators in its society:
1. The upper class consisting of government officials so long as they show unquestioning allegiance to “The Party.”
2. Average citizens who live in a government-suppressed economy.
3. The dead, where all find “common ground” (No pun intended.)
Not only has communism failed in reaching equity, an equality of outcome, it has also succeeded in destroying equality of opportunity: an equality that America is known and famous for. An equality that left-wing politicians are now decrying in a fake show of virtue in favor of “equity.” We do well to remember that the outcry for equity, by whatever title it flies by, has historically been simply a means for the peak of the hierarchical “pile” to gain control of the world’s assets, to take care of the top (#1) first and let those “under them” divide the “leftovers” with the known religious or discontent being relegated to the bottom.
It is worthy of note that the communist countries with growing economies (China, etc.) have quietly been accepting their own special flavor of limited capitalism. A hierarchical capitalism that fits in well with globalist ideas. Globalist ideas infiltrating America through mega corporations and real estate buyouts, threatening the core principles of American capitalism. America has historically been a place of opportunity where a man could start a small business and grow from there. Or stay relatively small if he wisely chose; as the Industrial Revolution has opened up more and more options for a staggering rate of growth; first with steam-powered machines, then internal combustion engines and mechanical automation, later giving way to electrical impulse driven machinery eventually automated by digital technology; a technology that had meanwhile expanded office horizons beyond anything before possible or even imagined, unless in sci-fi movies, giving rise to mega corporations and the expansion of governments, both of which continue to bloat and meld together. A bloating and melding that with the fast-moving developments of AI (artificial intelligence) seems indeed to be bent on suffocating the whole of humanity within its sinister embrace. As Klaus Schwab puts it in his embrace of what he refers to as “this fourth industrial revolution,” in referring to AI, “whoever masters this technology will be the master of the world.” (German accent omitted) To which I/we respond, “No Klaus, faith in Christ, abiding in our hearts and minds, is untouchable by outward forces.”
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