Making the central objection to a Ministry of truth the singing witch cartoon character tapped to lead it was too easy, not enough emphasis was made highlighting how repulsive the endeavor was as a result. It was too easy, too personalized. Which allowed for repackaging without as much pushback by opponents.
As to capitalism, it is as others in history have described, the worst economic system ever devised - except for all the others.
It's true. All the warts of it you describe are real. But the warts on the others are really worse. And absent a provably workable alternative all we can try to do is improve it.
But many of those attempts at improvement have arguably exacerbated the warts. Government cannot improve the condition of the human soul. Attempts to do so, social reengineering is doomed to fail. It represses the human experience, attempts to compel others to obey the will of others are always done at the tip of a spear. That's what government disinfo campaigns an expression of. Words as weapons, sharper than knives, with brute police force to back them up if the human mind rejects them. And human minds always do. Earthly fear-based compliance isn't how the human soul is reformed, reengineered.
I'd be closer to the right-libertarian you describe. Understanding that life is always about tradeoffs. And ties must go to freedom, not control. The human soul is reformed best by heavenly appeals. Capitalism without faith in a higher power than man is the crux of the problems of our time.
The world only knows crony capitalism today, a variant of socialism. The results of trying to improve the warts that have made more of them even worse. The current model bears no resemblance to Adam Smith's vision; it's closer to Karl Marx's. And leaning into Marx's model more isn't an improvement.
Less government interference in free economic activity. More spiritual connection to improve the human soul that will manifest the caring for the rest of God's creation in the natural world we live in and our caring for out fellow man that we seek is how we improve the condition of man. The invisible hand controls better than the hands of man. It's a terrible system. Only the others are worse.
"Making the central objection to a Ministry of truth the singing witch cartoon character tapped to lead it was too easy, not enough emphasis was made highlighting how repulsive the endeavor was as a result. It was too easy, too personalized. Which allowed for repackaging without as much pushback by opponents."
Far smarter to outsource the job to Big Tech, which has the added bonus of being a private business, and therefore insulated from pesky FOIA suits and unwanted election results.
If we want to be honest about it, they've been doing it the whole time. Internally as standard operating government procedure. And externally through public-private partnerships, since long before Twitter Files evidence was revealed, long before Covid, long before 9-11. Movies like "Enemy of the State' weren't fictional sci-fi predictions, they were revelations of current practices at the time.
There was actually a bit of truth in the government telling what their rationale was in creating its Ministry of Truth - they said they were trying to increase transparency in the programs. Not that they were beginning them. Our collective voice rejecting the Ministry just told them we don't want to explicitly know what they're doing; we'd rather not know. They didn't stop what they already had been doing for decades as a result of us saying we didn't want the Ministry to be formally recognized. Just repackaged it.
The weak link in your essay takes your whole point of view down like a house of cards. The invisible hand is not timely enough to prevent ecological and health hazards. Try left-libertarianism, because it doesn't require control any more than right-. Authoritarianism isn't part of that. You forget that being right-leaning (meaning wealth extraction for wealth's sake) instead of left-, (saving wealth for emergencies and the future) contributes to all of society's ills. It is literally the love of money.
Your believe in government, some centralized authority acts more timely doing anything than the invisible hand of people acting rationally to hazards?!?! Wow. Takes your whole point of view down like a house of cards.
Your definition of right-leaning. Your paradigm. Your belief. Not shared. Not accepted. Easily taken down.
Money is not responsible for society's ills. *Love* of money is. Right-leaning has nothing to do with *love* of money. It is a unit of exchange for value. Your wealth extraction for wealth's sake definition of right-leaning is flawed beyond repair. False or debatable definitions = False pronouncements of a "truth."
Making the central objection to a Ministry of truth the singing witch cartoon character tapped to lead it was too easy, not enough emphasis was made highlighting how repulsive the endeavor was as a result. It was too easy, too personalized. Which allowed for repackaging without as much pushback by opponents.
As to capitalism, it is as others in history have described, the worst economic system ever devised - except for all the others.
It's true. All the warts of it you describe are real. But the warts on the others are really worse. And absent a provably workable alternative all we can try to do is improve it.
But many of those attempts at improvement have arguably exacerbated the warts. Government cannot improve the condition of the human soul. Attempts to do so, social reengineering is doomed to fail. It represses the human experience, attempts to compel others to obey the will of others are always done at the tip of a spear. That's what government disinfo campaigns an expression of. Words as weapons, sharper than knives, with brute police force to back them up if the human mind rejects them. And human minds always do. Earthly fear-based compliance isn't how the human soul is reformed, reengineered.
I'd be closer to the right-libertarian you describe. Understanding that life is always about tradeoffs. And ties must go to freedom, not control. The human soul is reformed best by heavenly appeals. Capitalism without faith in a higher power than man is the crux of the problems of our time.
The world only knows crony capitalism today, a variant of socialism. The results of trying to improve the warts that have made more of them even worse. The current model bears no resemblance to Adam Smith's vision; it's closer to Karl Marx's. And leaning into Marx's model more isn't an improvement.
Less government interference in free economic activity. More spiritual connection to improve the human soul that will manifest the caring for the rest of God's creation in the natural world we live in and our caring for out fellow man that we seek is how we improve the condition of man. The invisible hand controls better than the hands of man. It's a terrible system. Only the others are worse.
"Making the central objection to a Ministry of truth the singing witch cartoon character tapped to lead it was too easy, not enough emphasis was made highlighting how repulsive the endeavor was as a result. It was too easy, too personalized. Which allowed for repackaging without as much pushback by opponents."
Far smarter to outsource the job to Big Tech, which has the added bonus of being a private business, and therefore insulated from pesky FOIA suits and unwanted election results.
Private-public partnerships seem inevitably to become fascism.
Interesting thought.
If we want to be honest about it, they've been doing it the whole time. Internally as standard operating government procedure. And externally through public-private partnerships, since long before Twitter Files evidence was revealed, long before Covid, long before 9-11. Movies like "Enemy of the State' weren't fictional sci-fi predictions, they were revelations of current practices at the time.
There was actually a bit of truth in the government telling what their rationale was in creating its Ministry of Truth - they said they were trying to increase transparency in the programs. Not that they were beginning them. Our collective voice rejecting the Ministry just told them we don't want to explicitly know what they're doing; we'd rather not know. They didn't stop what they already had been doing for decades as a result of us saying we didn't want the Ministry to be formally recognized. Just repackaged it.
Seriously, an open Ministry of Truth would be better than the secret one they pretend doesn't exist, over which we have no control at all.
The weak link in your essay takes your whole point of view down like a house of cards. The invisible hand is not timely enough to prevent ecological and health hazards. Try left-libertarianism, because it doesn't require control any more than right-. Authoritarianism isn't part of that. You forget that being right-leaning (meaning wealth extraction for wealth's sake) instead of left-, (saving wealth for emergencies and the future) contributes to all of society's ills. It is literally the love of money.
Your believe in government, some centralized authority acts more timely doing anything than the invisible hand of people acting rationally to hazards?!?! Wow. Takes your whole point of view down like a house of cards.
Your definition of right-leaning. Your paradigm. Your belief. Not shared. Not accepted. Easily taken down.
Money is not responsible for society's ills. *Love* of money is. Right-leaning has nothing to do with *love* of money. It is a unit of exchange for value. Your wealth extraction for wealth's sake definition of right-leaning is flawed beyond repair. False or debatable definitions = False pronouncements of a "truth."