Front Page mag - A Project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center
Daniel Greenfield Ping List Notification of new articles.
I am posting Greenfield's articles from FrontPage and the Sultan Knish blog. FReepmail or drop me a comment to get on or off the Greenfield ping list.
I recommend an occasional look at the Sultan Knish blog. It is a rich source of materials, links and more from one of the preeminent writers of our age.
FrontPage is a basic resource for conservative thought.
Lou
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fiGVhiSe7Es/UC2iXPZr6dI/AAAAAAAAIBo/dnH7JqKKqVQ/s1600/sidepicture.jpg"left")
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
To get on or off the Greenfield ping list please reply to this post.
Timeless principles
Brilliant article. Either we are Free or Slaves of the State.
Our “system” was to be “free” and our “Justice” system was ONLY to promote “public virtue” in the masses for Western Civ. understood since Socrates that without Virtue, you are a slave of the State.
That is why the System destroys virtue formation in children (intentionally) by Welfare—it embeds laziness and dependence on the State, as does the public school system which destroys agency and individualism (thinking for self—outside the State Box). After the age of 7, they need structured Classical Christian education (the only rational, logical type which gives a person the tools to “think critically”-—be fully human and free).
As Socrates stated, when the State controls “education” it will never “educate”, it will only make slaves for the State. The Marxists took total control of “education” (brainwashing) in the 30s—by the 70s, every single child’s mind was rotted by the system.
People, even here, don’t understand the psychology used to destroy the minds (autonomy, agency) in our children. We have to take back the Minds of children—they need unstructured time in Reality with human interactions, etc. so that they will be capable of thinking for SELF-—they have to habituate virtue in childhood (build the neurons/pathways so AGENCY is POSSIBLE!!!-—not be like tribal, feudal minds—easily controlled and only regurgitating the programmed cr@p like snowflakes and “bots” /jackboots do.
I think we have another Walter Williams.
Put me on the Greenfield ping list.
New tag line!
In a rationing society everyone is an informer because everyone's livelihood depends on informing on others.
We have commented on length here on FR on Rand's Atlas Shrugged, certain parts of which act as synecdoche, meaning the work as a whole encapsulated in one of its parts. Francisco d'Anconia's money speech is one of these; Hank Reardon's show trial is another. Another is this one, the recitation of the downfall of the 20th Century Motor Company in the words of an ex-employee turned hobo. It is HERE. This is, in fiction, precisely the process Greenfield is describing here, wherein a production society turns, on the strength of a change in ownership and a single election, into a rationing society. And how, and why, it committed suicide.
Being a man of the late industrial revolution, Karl Marx was obsessed with industrial production, and one of the great ironies of Marxism as an economic plan is that it has a nearly perfect record of killing it instead of optimizing it. The reason is fundamental: command economies are rationing economies by their very nature. The socialist ideal is one of stasis, and human societies simply don't thrive that way, they crumble. The current disaster that is Venezuela is only one of a dozen examples. What is most amazing about this is that despite this clear track record there still are fools wishing to try it again, because plunder is easier than creation.
Our form of government works because we are largely self-governing. The erosion of our culture is inching this society towards a rationing society.
Always a great read. Thanks for posting.
w, ping....
Ping.
A fabulous rant. Thanks.