Communism’s Unsubtle March On America

Uninhibited by evident, even glaring hypocrisy, Mark Zuckerberg told a fresh crop of Democrats graduating from the Harvard romper rooms this week, “We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things.”

He treated them with other nonsense and simplistic oration that he couldn’t help but inflict on the naive audience in promotion of Facebook, such as championing globalism and claiming that nationalism is “the struggle of our time.”

Apparently he has too much time on his hands since he dropped his lawsuit against the Hawaiians who were peacefully complaining and demonstrating against the “wall” he was building around his 700 acre estate on Kauai, and around parcels of land long-owned by local Hawaiians and passed down through generations of Hawaiians (see Kuleana Act of 1850) - “What? Your ancestors didn’t pass-down to you a DEED of ownership? They didn’t have typewriters or computers? Get out of my wall’s way. I bought this land. I own it. Now, let's talk about my magnanimity, global warming and globalism and let’s ignore economic metrics like GDP. If the government pays you for doing nothing, you’ll come up with genius ideas like mine.”

Zuckerberg seems as lost as Bill Gates proved to be when he decided to dabble in education - remember when Gates dabbled with billions of misguided dollars? Billions purposely thrown by sadly uninsightful minds to derail young malleable minds. Gates might look into the nature of “discovery learning,” and so should Zuckerberg.

Wall Street has made Zuckerberg a billionaire and as a result, the media believes that whatever oozes out of his mouth must be worth a billion dollars. All of the MSM has jumped aboard the Zuckerberg/Facebook advertorial train selling his Marxist ideas, while at the same time this same MSM is advertising the nauseating Obama sermons on globalism and redistribution, concurrently being delivered in Europe.

The left, all of it, is no longer capable of self reflection, analysis, and understanding. Some of it cannot comprehend that human nature prefers to self-actualize. The rest of the left cannot allow itself to change the source of its wealth — the “woe is me” diatribe with which it has indoctrinated millions has created a dysfunctional co-dependent culture infecting half of the Nation. In this ethos of victimization, personal responsibility has been abandoned and slothful intellects have woefully replaced it with blame.

Most of them don't realize that socialism/communism belittle the individual and his, or her importance. Creativity, initiative, entrepreneurship are undermined and suppressed. Human decency inherent in the individual, and stirred by personal judgment loses itself in the morass of the great blob that is the communistic mindset. Bullying, hate, betrayal of neighbors, and even homicide become acceptable, or sanctioned.

I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.
And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make pencils - and everything else.
So, “you didn't build that? Somebody else made that happen?” Yes - but that “somebody else” was not government. The “somebody” was more like everybody - mostly very indirectly.
Government planning is merely interference in society’s subtle workings by people who have nowhere near the competence needed to make such large decisions and be responsible for them. It is nothing more than the irresponsible separation of responsibility from authority, in violation of the first principle of good management. Improvement in efficiency via government “planning” is a paper tiger.

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