Posted on 04/27/2022 5:10:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
George Bernard Shaw stated that “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I see things that never were and ask why not?” Robert Kennedy used this quote in nearly every speech he made during his ill-fated presidential campaign of 1968. Despite being the only person ever to win both a Nobel prize for Literature and an Oscar, Shaw was also a strident anti-Semite, a noted eugenicist, and a life-long avowed socialist. To his credit, he did pen Pygmalion, which, with a bit of musical assistance from Lerner and Loewe, became My Fair Lady -- a play that is the gold standard of musical theater. Shaw’s life serves as an example of the imperfection of all who have ever drawn a breath.
Today, Shaw shares a position on the Mt. Rushmore of socialism with such disparate individuals as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Utopian thought, it would seem, is not bound by age or gender differences. In our society, however, it is bound by political persuasion. The belief held by those on the Left that utopian thought is theirs and theirs alone drives me, as a conservative, to distraction. Progressives, in their usual impolite manner, declare that only ‘visionaries’ who espouse a desire to live in a world of socialism (with its inevitable tyranny) are capable of envisioning our world as a better place. Only those willing to sit in a circle singing “Kumbaya” or Lennon’s “Imagine” (oh, the ironic yet inelegant symmetry of Lennon putting Lenin to music) are deemed worthy of asking ‘why not?’
Well, as a conservative, I am asking, ‘why not?’ I want to live in a meritocratic world where equality of opportunity is guaranteed, but results must be attained; a world where equality of circumstance is neither expected nor overvalued.
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The left hates prosperity and loves lording over sufferng people. I don’t desire what they want and don’t think most other people would if they understood ahead of time what they are voting for.
A good part of the problem is the Dunning-Kruger effect. Most leftists simply assume that they themselves are above average — far smarter than everyone else.
Therefore an egalitarian utopia would be a wonderful thing — because such a utopia will of course need bureaucrats in charge to make sure it runs right. And so the benevolent leftists (think: screaming woke college students) will be in charge of all of the neanderthal peasants like you and me. Because they’re better than us. That’s really where they’re going with “equality of outcome”. It means: “I’ll be on top where I belong”.
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Excellent article except for this one woke word.
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