Wednesday 15 July 2015

FOUR LEGS GOOD TWO LEGS BAD

I take it as a given that most of my friends have long ago realised how much I detest Socialism in all its deviant forms. Unfortunately the State of South Australia is ruled by a socialist clique who were voted into power by those I consider either idiots or infantiles.

For example it is the only State in Australia not to have allowed Uber to operate; why? Because Uber takes the power out of the hands of the government/union/bureaucracy and places it firmly into the hands of the public:
Ultimately, Uber, AirBbB and other cooperative social sharing networks and app-based service providers have sprung up in response to a corrupt establishment - a tangled web of cronyism that involves government regulators who want to tax, control and organize networks, and massive unions who seek to keep a stranglehold on jobs and industries. Uber openly subverts a scheme between local governments and labor unions to limit choice in transportation to that which is both approved by government and operated by unions. The result is inflated pricing, artificial scarcity and a market that doesn't operate with consumers in mind. Instead of changing their system to respond to consumer needs, transportation unions would rather just shut down the subversive businesses entirely. [ Emily Zanotti on 7.13.15 American Spectator]

FREE enterprise (emphasis on Free) is something a socialist bureaucracy has nightmares about. Incidentally South Australia also has the highest unemployment rates in Australia, correlation anyone?

These are people who believe in a utopian society where the State shapes behaviour because, well; every right-thinking person knows that whilst we were all born perfect, society has corrupted us and causes us to make bad choices, (the Rousseaun doctrine; foundational cause of the French 'revolution/bloodbath’ ‘everywhere born free, but now in chains' etc) ergo it is only the state (maternal/paternal bureaucracy) that can correct our behaviour.

Thus we have prisoners with more rights than victims, (shame, its not their fault, its our society's fault). We have traitors blaming the West for terrorists behaviour, we have state bureaucrats determining that lower and ever stupidly lower speed limits (in spite of research reaching an opposite conclusion) can eradicate death from the roads (an escapist mindset signalling that; we don't have to die if only we let the state look after us).

We have financial penalties becoming the social behavioural tool of the 21st century with 'experts' (always in white smocks) lining up to say how behaviour is modified by fining people (tell that to the dropkicks I spoke to when driving a cab who boasted of how they 'beat the system' by never paying and eventually being forgiven their debts) the exorbitant and in many cases unfair (invisible when you don't even know they exist) financial penalties levied on the population which in reality only punish the middle class conservatives, those who are trying to live responsible and honest lifestyles...the wealthy don't care two hoots and the drop-kicks just rort the system.

But don't tell that to the keepers of the 'system' because they already know that (many are opposed to the bourgeois anyway), besides they rely on the revenue to fund their hand-out mentality thus keeping the infantile/couldn't-care-less-as-long-as-I-get-my-handout's in line with goodies.

Capitalism and free enterprise are flawed systems, but they knock the socks off of the alternative which have proved to be not only failures but misanthropic to boot.

Wednesday 8 July 2015

The power of the declared powerless....

For those of us on the receiving end of the looks and gasps of stupefaction (or anger!) when mentioning the almost overwhelming bias exhibited by the main-stream-media, (lame-stream?) a statement such as this one in the media, brings a refreshing I-told-you-so moment to the argument:
"What I admire about the anti-capitalist left is their ability to present their ideas as somehow "unorthodox" and "anti-mainstream", when they are clearly nothing of the sort. Go to any high street bookstore, and you will find that the politics section consists of little else but the tomes of Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Russell Brand, Owen Jones, Ha-Joon Chang, George Monbiot and the other usual suspects. If that is a "neoliberal hegemony", I dread to think what a left-wing hegemony would look like."
This approach is like a reverse psychology ploy of Saul Alinsky's first rule for radicals:
* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. [or not]” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people [nowadays; the media]. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
[Square brackets my inclusions]