With this one point I think De Toqueville missed. The timid animals will not,in the main, be hardworking and the society will not even be able to feed itself so must decline economically slowly. or maybe rapidly, but unremittingly.
I cannot take credit for this & cannot find my source — some reply to some blog somewhere — maybe FR — but i copied it because it pointed out something no one mentions. The destruction by the nanny state to the meaning of life and the loss of self-esteem when we realize that we cannot make any difference anywhere to anything or anybody because the state has taken over every function: “the personal pain of individual worthlessness to society.”
“The left understands the point, they just see an Orwellian Utopia as more ‘fair’ and ‘equal’ than the risky competition of individual achievement based on merit as an easier way to self sustaining stasis. The damage done to self esteem by devaluing individual contribution can be legislated at a later time and appropriate compensation can be delivered enhancing the benefit although not improving the personal pain of individual worthlessness to society.
The left isn’t really very good at mind experiments or consequential realities of unintended consequences because they act on emotion, not logic or reason.”
Thanks for posting and BTTT.
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