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Socialists As Parasites

Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 11 months ago to Philosophy
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""I talked of spider's webs. There's a curious parasitic wasp, very tiny, of the genus Hymenoepimecis - a clever little creature that stings a spider into temporary paralysis, and lays its eggs in the spider's abdomen. Soon the spider goes back to work, as if nothing had happened, even as the larvae grow inside him, nourished in its fluids. Then, on the night the larvae will molt and kill the spider, they chemically induce it to change its behavior. On this night, the spider is induced to spin a cocoon web, useless to the spider but necessary for the larva. As soon as the spider has finished its work, the larvae consume the spider and hang the pupal cocoon in the special web. It's quite extraordinary, really, the parasite's fine-grained manipulation of the host's behavior. But its nothing compared to what we humans can devise. That's the sort of thing I think about, Ms. Navarro. Who's inside of us? What forces might be manipulating the apparatus of civil governance into building a web that will serve their own purposes? When will the parasite decide to consume the host?""
Robert Ludlum The Sigma Protocol

Perhaps instead of treating Socialism as an illogical philosophy, we should be treating it as a disease - a parasite. Over the past hundred years or so it has implanted its larvae into our schools from grade to graduate, all branches of all levels of government, business, entertainment, and news. I understand that Objectivism is the answer on an intellectual level. I wonder what can be done on a physical level to kill the parasite before it kills its host - America?


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  • Posted by 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Our socialistic school system begins the children's indoctrination in the first grade. Why should we Objectivists have to wait? It is a lifetime struggle to reclaim one's birthright to Reason if one is denied the opportunity as a child.
    From one who knows.
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  • Posted by masterofelectricity666 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are you sure that if high school or college kiddos with little to no real work/general life experience read Ayn Rand's books the message would sink in? What Ayn Rand's books did for me was to enhance and codify real world common sense knowledge that I already had in a different form. I learned when I had to go dig in the middle of the winter to pay my rent, know what I mean? When I was an idiot teenager, though, I was actually into socialism at one point, until reality taught me how worthless it is.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 9 years, 11 months ago
    As I understand it, a lot of it comes from the phil-
    osophy that is taught in the colleges. So maybe
    a good strategy would be: if you are in college,
    promote Objectivism to your fellow students. If you
    are not, boycott the colleges. (Maybe an Object-tivist college could be started someday, but it
    is not around yet).
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  • Posted by jpellone 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When she said it I had to pause it and step through it writing it down. And yes I thought it described them perfectly!!!
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Good one jpellone! It helps explain why the response to their every failure is "more" as in more laws, more regulation, more money, and more control. Their only absolutes are that they were born to lead and are never wrong.
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  • Posted by jpellone 9 years, 11 months ago
    I don't know how many of you have watched "Once Upon a Time' but Snow White had a great quote that she told the author.

    "You became a villain, but that's what villains do. They make themselves happy at the expense of others but it just makes them more unhappy! I know what it is to feel your heart go dark and that isn't something to idolize. It's something to pity".

    Now replace villain with liberal or progressive and reread the quote. Sad!!!
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  • Posted by jpellone 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It is explainable. Insanity-Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results!!!!
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A general strike now! Non-violent massive non-compliance while we still have a chance to derail Socialism.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 11 months ago
    Attend the funeral?
    Start Over?
    The next time do it right?
    Hope or pray the military upholds it's oath of office?

    Do not vote for the lesser or greater of two evils
    Do not make the best of four very bad choices

    Do not support the Government Party.

    At Any Level
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  • Posted by radical 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Their "bad luck" is alcohol and drug abuse, promiscuous sex, keeping bad company, skipping school, ad nauseum.
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  • Posted by radical 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree. There is too much "discussion" and not enough planning for the fight that is coming.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    WOW! Thank you, I'd been searching sporadically for the author. Seems like somebody knows everything somewhere in the Gulch.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, the established cultural memes operate the agenda, right or wrong. When reason stands in their way, reason must be incapacitated, usually through emotional manipulation. But reason and emotions need not be in conflict. They are not mutually exclusive or antithetical; in a well-integrated mind with no inner contradictions they are as one: A is A. A hard thing to achieve for young minds when the culture works against them.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "... and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed...." Thomas Jefferson DOI
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes what seems to be normal is for humans to trek from emotions as primary to reason as primary. Unfortunately, our schools and religions (I'm an exRC) seem geared toward thwarting young minds from fully exercising their natural ability to employ reason.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are welcome. I sometimes feel like the character at the end of the movie Invasion of the body snatchers screaming "They're coming, they're coming" except he was listened to and I'm not.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So long as America remains prosperous and people are lulled into thinking they can just ride along without paddling, we are the stung spider.

    Notice that the times America has been the strongest in our history were when we had to struggle and fight for our freedoms. We haven't really had to do that since WW II. Apathy has set in amongst the majority. Only those who are vigilant recognize the warning signs, but our cries fall on the deaf ears of those who do not wish to see the truth.
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