DANGER: SLEIGHT-OF-MOUTH!

Beware the slogans and 'sleight-of-mouth' that bellows in its defense for; 'the good of the community' or for the 'people'. Like so many of the current fear mongers and artificial 'scare campaigns'; i.e. over-population, climate change, the industrial/military, complex, 'big oil/banking' etc, their actual motivation lies in a Nietzschean 'will to power' organised by an aristocratic elite seeking to re-establish their position at the top of the pecking order, preferably with a huge gap between them and all the 'others':

The current debate is a public policy debate with enormous implications. It is no longer about climate. It is about the government, the politicians, their scribes and the lobbyists who want to get more decision making and power for themselves. It seems to me that the widespread acceptance of the global warming dogma has become one of the main, most costly and most undemocratic public policy mistakes in generations. The previous one was communism..[President Vaclav Klaus, Climate control or freedom 20.10.10)

Representative democracy and the free market of the post war years made an unacceptable (to the 'overseers') number of 'ordinary' people 'comfortably middle class' (bourgeoisie) and therefore not easily 'managed'. Therefore since the embryonic revolution of the 60's we have witnessed a gradual infiltration and the subsequent ruination of credible education in the West and a neo-Marxist occupation of the media/Hollywood/arts complexes  ala Gramsci/Alinsky and culminating with Obama.

An almost total capture of the major 'organs-of meaning-and-communication' which has resulted in the mass programming of the masses into a philosophically relativised, emotionally driven, politically correct horde incapable of sound reasoning, and believing only what their (limited) 'teachers' have told them.

Unfortunately the truth of the matter is that most of these post-modern, 'educated' people (specifically in the humanities and arts) are woefully ill-equipped for a real-world existence, and such a gap between expectations and reality leaves such folk feeling victimised, dissatisfied and with larger appetites than incomes. Add these 'educated elites' to societies genuine victims (often of circumstances and/or bad decisions) and mix in the ones who have swallowed the media driven scare-mongering, those corrupted by institutional religious hypocrisy, and you have the makings of a massive swell towards big government, simply because these folk feel inadequate, excluded, defenceless, embittered and ultimately incapable of making a difference in the face of  current 'reality', not realising (or incapable of understanding) that it is fact 'big government' itself that causes many of the problems. Ergo the dream of a cultural revolution.

Unfortunately if such a revolution were to be fully realised, it will render the very people who promote it voiceless and ultimately its actual victims, that is if history is an accurate indication, and it usually is. Most however, are too indoctrinated to see it; the blind leading the blind:

"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight for!"

—Ludwig von Mises, as quoted in the preface to The Devil's Pleasure Palace.