Socialists As Parasites
Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 11 months ago to Philosophy
""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?
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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We in the Gulch spend most of our time talking or planning on running away instead of following Jefferson's common sense admonition. America is Galt's Gulch! We should be willing to fight for it!
Of course the teacher's union and the school system itself is desperately fighting against them so this is not an easy fight. Nevertheless it does seem like it has at least a chance of growing.
Once people have vouchers to pay for education then a market is available for us to meet. With educational costs exceeding 10K per student per year there's a lot of potential for someone who actually knows how to run a business to build an efficient school.
It still leaves the government with a significant amount of control but would be a step in the right direction. We have to start somewhere, we are not going to convince the current educational system to promote our values.
Of course, to many, the idea of tax funded vouchers for education is less that ideal, it would be a step in the right direction. To put it in the terms of the health care debate, it would be "single payer education".
With the resulting market for providing private schools, entrepreneurs would be able to start schools and, at least at some level, introduce capitalism to education.