"We are great. We are
free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in
all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true." -- the "Bandar-log"
monkeys in Rudyard Kipling's The
Jungle Book.
Berserk in Berserkely: Confusing Reagan and
Hitler (!)
by Rick Gaber
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A bunch of Berkeley professors have made attempts (documented here)
to link some of America's most effective advocates of limited government,
communication and persuasion with some of history's worst advocates of
huge all-powerful government, coercion and brutality. What this demonstrates
is that the lunatic left remains just as psychotic and hostile -- and dangerous
-- as were the Rosenbergs and other home-grown spies of the 1940s (whose
bizarre delusions let them think that they were saving the world from an
evil American "Naziism" by giving our nuclear secrets to those virtuous,
benevolent Soviet Russians).
While pretending to be just as critical of liberals and socialists,
these pathetic "intellectuals" demonstrate how ridiculous they are by confusing
psychopathic control freaks such as Hitler and Mussolini with warm-hearted,
easy-going live-and-let-livers such as Ronald Reagan. Only hate-filled
psychotics as intensely uptight and humorless as Hitler and Mussolini themselves
could be so psychologically incapable of telling the difference.
As Bret Stevens has said in another context, "This style of hyperbole is
a symptom of madness, because it displays such palpable disconnect from
observable reality." But it doesn't stop there; they even try to
to "prove" (?) their absurd assertions of the alleged similarity by trying
to build a case that they all belong in what they postulate as a "right-wing
conservative" category "because they preached a return to an idealized
past and condoned inequality in some form."*
How vague, how feeble, how pitiful can you get?
More importantly, they're showing how desperately they want public
policy discussions to leave no room whatsoever for pro-liberty limited-government
advocacy -- since they need so badly for the choices to be strictly limited
to variations of authoritarianism ('ours' or 'theirs' -- socialism
or fascism), the only way the socialism they advocate can be presented
in what they apparently believe to be a relatively favorable light.
Their strained attempts to find traits which European dictators and
American conservatives have in common are as laughable as those found in
"Paint Their Swastika Green" by Brien Bartels (posted here).
However, the alleged "intolerance for ambiguity and or need for closure",
for example, while presented as a conservative trait, should more appropriately
be applied to "liberals" and other socialists whose pathological fear of
liberty and free markets in general rests on a fundamental terror of the
spontaneous
order where (horrors!) "no
one is in charge!"
The Psychological Association, in giving them any credence at all,
is saying in effect, "Beware! Our profession is chock full of nuts!"
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See http://entropy.brneurosci.org/psychobabble.html here
for a really scholarly debunking of the Berkeley psychobabble.
Find "There is something profoundly immoral for a latte-sipping,
upscale Westerner of the postmodern age flippantly evoking Hitler when
we think of the countless souls lost to the historical record who were
systematically starved and gassed in the factories of death of the Third
Reich." -- Victor Davis Hanson at http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson031805.html
HERE
-- where the Hitlerian slur is deconstructed.
See http://FreedomKeys.com/collectivism.htm HERE
-- which demonstrates how all the different control freaks belong in the
control freak category and that your political choices and standards of
ethics are not limited to varieties of control freaks and their
rationales.
See http://FreedomKeys.com/kneejerk2.htm HERE
-- which includes a link to an excellent article on the absurdity of trying
to distinguish fascists from other socialists.
And see http://www.aynrand.org/medialink/whoismoredangerous.shtml
HERE
-- "Who Is the More Dangerous Enemy? The Terrorists -- Or Our College Professors?"
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"When the debate is lost, slander becomes
the tool of the loser." -- Socrates |
| "I've never quite been able
to figure out why liberals self-identify with qualities such as 'bright',
'non-conforming', and 'hanging loose', then turn around and demand a system
of government that represses creativity and initiative, stifles individuality,
robs the productive to support the slothful, and demands a high degree
of unthinking conformity. ... Liberals seem to think they are libertarians,
but until they learn that economic freedom is more important to the health
of a free society than sexual license, they will remain Stalinists in drag.
;)" --
Mr.
Jeeves
"Market bashers ... might understand
the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though
they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex
systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like
it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course,
this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order
must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that
has the closet affinity to the religious instinct." -- Julian Sanchez
"Not understanding the process of a
spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding
the creation of resources and wealth." -- Julian
Simon
"Half a century of economic experimentation proved beyond doubt that tyranny
cannot yield prosperity. ... Socialism collapsed because it is a policy
of unrestrained intervention. It tries to fix what is 'wrong' with
the spontaneous, self-organizing phenomenon called capitalism. But,
of course, a natural process cannot be 'fixed.' ... Socialism
is an ideology. Capitalism is a natural phenomenon." -- Michael
Rothschild in BIONOMICS:
Economy as Ecosystem
"Anything other than free enterprise always means a society
of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly
enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement
is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant
fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals." -- Lew
Rockwell
"If concern for human poverty and suffering were one's
primary motive, one would seek to discover their cause. One would
not fail to ask : Why did some nations develop, while others did not?
Why have some nations achieved material abundance, while others have remained
stagnant in sub-human misery? History and specifically the unprecedented
prosperity-explosion of the 19th century would give an immediate answer
: capitalism is the only system that enables men to produce abundance -
and the key to capitalism is individual freedom." -- Ayn Rand, "Requiem
for Man", Chapter 24 of Capitalism:
The Unknown Ideal
* "From the fact that people are very different it follows
that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their
actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position
would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and
material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict
with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not
both at the same time." -- F. A. Hayek
"Machan shines as he exposes embarrassing contradictions
of egalitarianism. Example: 'If welfare and equality are to be primary
aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion
in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political
power alone should be equal among human beings; yet, striving for other
kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.'" -- from
Jim
Powell's Review of Private
Rights and PublicIllusions by Tibor Machan.
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is
a lack of belief in freedom itself." -- Milton Friedman
"Control freaks who sneer at people who have 'faith' in
the free market must be fantasizing an allegedly 'higher' political end
than freedom." -- Rick Gaber
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It
is itself the highest political end." --Prof. John E. E. D. Acton
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find
defenders among the ablest men." -- Prof. John E. E. D. Acton
"So many idealistic political movements
for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders
enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to
destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity." -- Thomas Sowell
"People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than
the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth
of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation,
for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially
to impose ignorance on knowledge." -- Dr.
Thomas Sowell
"Most modern intellectuals congratulate themselves for having
achieved the allegedly momentus insight that capitalism and altruism are
ultimately incompatible (duh). Yet they're still too damned ignorant
to realize, or too damned stubborn to acknowledge, that altruism is definitely
NOT the only moral code available to mankind (it is, in fact, the bloodiest
and most regressive one of all). Such stunted thinking on the part
of the intelligentsia has resulted in their committing the intellectual
atrocity of rejecting the capitalism and freedom instead of the altruism
and coercion." -- Rick
Gaber
"The primary motive of modern intellectuals who advocate various
forms of dictatorship is not concern for human poverty and suffering;
it is the preservation of the ancient moral code of altruism, with emphasis
on demanded sacrifices and on securing for themselves positions to prescribe
the sacrifices, if not personally doing the demanding." -- Rick Gaber
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front
for the urge to rule" -- H. L. Mencken
"The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and
conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety,
which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and
to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full,
actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that
Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism
has to be or can ever be practiced." -- Ayn
Rand
"There are some modern intellectuals, especially among
those coddled at Berkeley, who do not in the least apologize for the thousands,
even millions, of murders perpetrated by Stalin, Mao or Castro.
Indeed, they defend them as 'necessary' to this day. Don't think
for a moment that they no longer work to destroy free lives, free minds
and free markets." -- Rick Gaber
"The most ridiculous, most despicable of all con artists
are those pompous, condescending, so-called 'intellectuals'
who purport to use the intellect to 'prove' the worthlessness of human
intelligence -- and thereby, of the intellect. They don't even seem
to realize all they're doing is admitting their own self-negation in the
most pathetic way possible, in public, to all but the most gullible." --
Rick Gaber
"Left-wing historians' sympathy for American communism
is an example of ideological bias and self-deception comparable to Holocaust
denial, according to [Haynes and Klehr, in their new book, In
Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage ]." -- Publishers
Weekly
"Postmodernism is a response to the
crisis in faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies the
leap of faith necessary to continue believing in socialism, and the same
epistemology justifies using language not as a vehicle for seeking truth
but as a rhetorical weapon in the continuing battle against capitalism."
-- Stephen Hicks in Explaining
Postmodernism
Here's
an example of how the blind insanity of American "intellectuals" enable
and facilitate the most unspeakable of evils.
| "The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a
civilized society."-- Plato (427-347 BC). |
| "In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by
reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of
first importance." --Thomas Jefferson, 1824 |
| "There are only two means by which men can deal with one
another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know
that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns."
-- Ayn Rand |
| "Now the intercourse between individuals and between
social groups takes one of these two forms: force or persuasion. Commerce
is the great example of intercourse by way of persuasion. War, slavery,
and governmental compulsion exemplify the reign of force." -- Alfred North
Whitehead |
"[T]he most fundamental objection
to draft registration is moral; [a] draft or draft registration destroys
the very values that our society is committed to defending." and "[The
draft] rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state.... That
assumption isn't a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great idea." --
Ronald Reagan |