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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, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security..." Thomas Jefferson DOI
    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!
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  • Posted by helidrvr 9 years, 11 months ago
    All forms of COERCIVE collectivism (socialism, fascism, communism, zionism, democracy etc.) are based on a win-lose paradigm and must therefore without exception be defined as moral insanity.
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 11 months ago
    very interesting analogy. to answer the question of what can be done to stop the process; nothing. the reason I believe is the universal that is in the usa lack of educated people. the parasites will win, but it will ultimately their demise as well.
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  • Posted by cjferraris 9 years, 11 months ago
    Socialism is the novacaine that allows all of our teeth to be removed. It doesn't take away all the pain of the removal, but just enough to where we don't really feel it until after it's done.
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 11 months ago
    I think that it is part of human nature to want something for nothing. It is only through living the principles of Objectivism that this can be overcome and we become rational humans who are makers, not takers.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are strong voucher movements to provide choice in education with some degree of success. The failure of the public school system is so obvious that it's hard to defend.

    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.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    William I don't understand how a government-controlled voucher system would lead to building a non-government school system. The only instance I can think of, in my lifetime, of the government giving up control was DARPA turning the Internet over to a private entity. I cannot envision the unions allowing their puppet politicians to permit any level of capitalism into education.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years, 11 months ago
    I think that schools are the place to start. With all due respect to marshafamilaroenright who is concerned that vouchers will inspire the state to become more involved in the operation of her school, we need to encourage vouchers as a way of building a non-government school system.

    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.
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