Thursday, October 14, 2010

Now Why, and What Did He Mean When He Said That?

I was commenting on another blog the other day and I said something to the effect that the problem with this administration is that they want to do big things. Radical things. Things that nobody has been able to successfully do before.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with doing big, radical things. The majority of the problems though, start seeping in when one attempts to do things that nobody has ever been able to do successfully before.
There are typically reasons why people have failed in implementing big, radical things like socialism and why they are likely to fail again and there is a metaphor for the likelihood of that failure, and that is N. Korean military parades.
The big radical thing that leftists want to eventually implement world-wide is Socialism. In their minds, the rationale of the fairness of socialism is inescapable, but just as inescapable to them is what is required for it to succeed – unanimity. Everyone must participate for it to succeed. Everyone must share the vision. And that is where the metaphor comes in – everyone must march, in strict lockstep, unwaveringly, inexorably toward the goal of universal fairness. No exceptions!
Makes sense.
For a universal idea to succeed, participation must logically be universal. And contained within that phrase is the word which virtually guarantees its failure. Must.
Look at the countries where governments have created the illusion of the success of socialism. What is it that they have tried their best to convey to the world? Uniformity. Unanimity. The metaphor of the perfectly choreographed, one organism, military parade.
But everyone looks at these countries and recognizes their seeming success to be an illusion. Even the leftists of this country see that while the parade is in unison, not everyone is at the parade. Yet the leftist in them remains convinced that somewhere, someone will make socialism work – that universal fairness must be achieved. And they are convinced that they are the ones to do it.
That they are the ones they have been waiting for.

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