We have all heard the phrase ‘If you are young and not a Socialist you have no heart and if you are old and not a Conservative you have no brains’.
My take on that is that you are young and have no money you want some and feel others in your situation deserve some as well from all those that have plenty. That’s the Socialist way. Then as you have worked your way through life to scrimp and save and bring up a family you want to keep that which you have sweated and worked so hard for.
If that was true then our love for socialism would be short because there are a lot more older people than younger people and that ratio is increasing. So why does Socialism get so many supporters every generation or so?
Well, I think that it our nature to be caring to others. Now before you laugh think about it. We are selfish creatures. We have needs and wants.
Examples of needs are food, shelter and protection. Examples of wants are to have friends, procreate and have nice toys. Both basic lists and everyone will have different views on what should be in there.
So when our needs are not being met we hold on tightly to what we have, sharing with no one and charity is out of the question. Once our needs are met and we feel comfortable that it will continue to do so then we are willing to share some things with others close to us and spend money on status stuff like toys and presents for the other sex. Then once we feel comfortable that our needs and wants are met we give more to others including charity and want to help others less fortunate. Our caring side is freed by because we no longer need to be totally selfish and we do like to help people where we can.
This is why we had wealthy landowners in the past providing poorhouses, medical care and schools. We have people now who provide law and medical care free of charge to poor people outside the legislation that requires it. Sometimes barely making a living themselves, in comparison to others of their skill sets. Bill Gates as his ilk providing aid to Africa all with their own money. Unlike our government which, provides aid to Africa etc. with borrowed money. Who in their right mind borrows money to give away whilst your own people, those you are supposed to be working for, are left with the ever increasing bills and to rub salt in the wounds the people that need the aid where we send it don’t get it either as it’s largely swallowed up by middlemen.
So we elect a Socialist government because they say they will create Social Justice and that is where it goes wrong because there is no such thing as Social Justice. It just creates injustice because we all have different requirement on what we consider to be enough for our needs and sliding scales on what we consider to be enough for our wants. Some think if your needs are met then you should help others, others who may have few needs think that our needs are being selfish and we should settle for less. Some of us have bigger, more expensive houses, others have more kids, others have expensive hobbies and so the amount we want to share differs. That isn’t good enough for those who feel strongly enough about what they call social justice and they raise and support champions who are willing to take via force from the others what they do not want to give willingly. They don’t see that it will impact them as, after all, they are not rich or even well off, and anyway it’s just a bit more. Thus Socialists rise to power to force people to do what they did freely before and because they are inefficient they destroy the economy in the process of making their ideal world and turn those that gave into people fighting to hold on to everything as they no longer can meet their needs and wants and need to keep what they have just to meet their own requirements. Real charity for others drops. It takes a while but it always happens. Then their support goes and we are back at the beginning again. Economy in bad shape. People sticking in local communities and having no interest in anyone else no matter how badly off they are. Socialism proved, yet again, that it doesn’t work and people wondering why we even thought it would.
So in quite a few years when the debts are paid and we have amassed some more wealth we will do the exactly the same thing again and they will again lead the country into the same situation.
Empty heads vote Socialists in and empty pockets vote them out.
The only real cure is education. The Socialists know that and that’s why they fill the schools with so many socialist drones and ensure that they are poorly educated. Sure kids leave with good grades but today 5 grade ‘A’s will get you a job flipping burgers from a street stand and anything less means you can’t read or write. It’s ‘A*’s that count now, anything less means they are indoctrinated into obeying the authority of that state and will put up with anything it does to them.
We must change it. We need to teach the basics. Maths, English, Basic Economics (at the very least it will help them manage their finances) and Basic Logical Thinking. How to work things out from facts and take less on faith. Question what is said and does it make sense. Too often even the brightest among us takes a lot on faith. I’ve done it myself.
Although it may not help though. The need to help others can override logic. Although one day we will have enough wealth to cover all our social programmes. I think we were almost there if we changed the way we looked at certain things. By looking at each issue differently and using logic we could make them manageable. Maybe next time we have some spare pennies.
Or if we develop our FTL capability we could we off on our ‘Wagontrain to the skies’ where we will probably do the same things there once we reach that point in society.
Human nature is just too strong to overcome with legislation and/or logic.
Why we are all Socialists at heart
We have all heard the phrase ‘If you are young and not a Socialist you have no heart and if you are old and not a Conservative you have no brains’.
My take on that is that you are young and have no money you want some and feel others in your situation deserve some as well from all those that have plenty. That’s the Socialist way. Then as you have worked your way through life to scrimp and save and bring up a family you want to keep that which you have sweated and worked so hard for.
If that was true then our love for socialism would be short because there are a lot more older people than younger people and that ratio is increasing. So why does Socialism get so many supporters every generation or so?
Well, I think that it our nature to be caring to others. Now before you laugh think about it. We are selfish creatures. We have needs and wants.
Examples of needs are food, shelter and protection. Examples of wants are to have friends, procreate and have nice toys. Both basic lists and everyone will have different views on what should be in there.
So when our needs are not being met we hold on tightly to what we have, sharing with no one and charity is out of the question. Once our needs are met and we feel comfortable that it will continue to do so then we are willing to share some things with others close to us and spend money on status stuff like toys and presents for the other sex. Then once we feel comfortable that our needs and wants are met we give more to others including charity and want to help others less fortunate. Our caring side is freed by because we no longer need to be totally selfish and we do like to help people where we can.
This is why we had wealthy landowners in the past providing poorhouses, medical care and schools. We have people now who provide law and medical care free of charge to poor people outside the legislation that requires it. Sometimes barely making a living themselves, in comparison to others of their skill sets. Bill Gates as his ilk providing aid to Africa all with their own money. Unlike our government which, provides aid to Africa etc. with borrowed money. Who in their right mind borrows money to give away whilst your own people, those you are supposed to be working for, are left with the ever increasing bills and to rub salt in the wounds the people that need the aid where we send it don’t get it either as it’s largely swallowed up by middlemen.
So we elect a Socialist government because they say they will create Social Justice and that is where it goes wrong because there is no such thing as Social Justice. It just creates injustice because we all have different requirement on what we consider to be enough for our needs and sliding scales on what we consider to be enough for our wants. Some think if your needs are met then you should help others, others who may have few needs think that our needs are being selfish and we should settle for less. Some of us have bigger, more expensive houses, others have more kids, others have expensive hobbies and so the amount we want to share differs. That isn’t good enough for those who feel strongly enough about what they call social justice and they raise and support champions who are willing to take via force from the others what they do not want to give willingly. They don’t see that it will impact them as, after all, they are not rich or even well off, and anyway it’s just a bit more. Thus Socialists rise to power to force people to do what they did freely before and because they are inefficient they destroy the economy in the process of making their ideal world and turn those that gave into people fighting to hold on to everything as they no longer can meet their needs and wants and need to keep what they have just to meet their own requirements. Real charity for others drops. It takes a while but it always happens. Then their support goes and we are back at the beginning again. Economy in bad shape. People sticking in local communities and having no interest in anyone else no matter how badly off they are. Socialism proved, yet again, that it doesn’t work and people wondering why we even thought it would.
So in quite a few years when the debts are paid and we have amassed some more wealth we will do the exactly the same thing again and they will again lead the country into the same situation.
Empty heads vote Socialists in and empty pockets vote them out.
The only real cure is education. The Socialists know that and that’s why they fill the schools with so many socialist drones and ensure that they are poorly educated. Sure kids leave with good grades but today 5 grade ‘A’s will get you a job flipping burgers from a street stand and anything less means you can’t read or write. It’s ‘A*’s that count now, anything less means they are indoctrinated into obeying the authority of that state and will put up with anything it does to them.
We must change it. We need to teach the basics. Maths, English, Basic Economics (at the very least it will help them manage their finances) and Basic Logical Thinking. How to work things out from facts and take less on faith. Question what is said and does it make sense. Too often even the brightest among us takes a lot on faith. I’ve done it myself.
Although it may not help though. The need to help others can override logic. Although one day we will have enough wealth to cover all our social programmes. I think we were almost there if we changed the way we looked at certain things. By looking at each issue differently and using logic we could make them manageable. Maybe next time we have some spare pennies.
Or if we develop our FTL capability we could we off on our ‘Wagontrain to the skies’ where we will probably do the same things there once we reach that point in society.
Human nature is just too strong to overcome with legislation and/or logic.