DAVE AGAIN | 2008-05-21
The world is of full ironies. There is no economic problem in a well-ordered society. There are bees for honey, cows for milk, and orchards for fruit. The stewardship of these is placed in competent hands for those living in the present and for those yet to be born.
The "family", accordingly, is sustained through descent with an inheritance that grows and is not wasted or dissipated. Marriages are properly supported and capital is properly husbanded so that marriages can succeed and children are raised in security.
But this is not the reality. The reality is the dominion of criminals who see to it that dereliction is officially sanctioned and that ruin is encouraged. Hence "carnival rides". These criminals have a vested interest in the dissipation of capital because their object is theft, not husbandry.
Look at the "Greatest Generation", for example. We have been subject to over 65 years of the romanticizing of the violence of WW II. Even where that violence is strongly condemned, it is covered with a patina of romance, the "Holocaust" included.
But what is never confronted is the reality of the dominion of criminals and their evil for that is what WW II really was, a situation where the restraints were entirely lifted from criminals who went about committing crimes without any fear of retribution.
Have you ever heard a member of the "Greatest Generation" mention this? Or mention the fact that the lifting of the restraints upon those with a proclivity toward criminality was universal?
And those members of the" Greatest Generation" who were actually thrown into combat never honestly talked about it, not because of the horrors, but because they were fully aware of the enormity of the crimes that were committed and of their personal subordination and cowardly attitude toward those crimes and toward the criminals committing them.
They in fact recoiled at the romanticizing of the War at home. Nevertheless, it was heresy for them to mention it. They dare not, and did not.
Did Stephen Spielberg ever catch even one little sliver of that truth in his abominable portrayals of "history"?
He did not because Spielberg's vested interest is in the sanctioning and promotion of dereliction for profit, and the encouragement of ruin, an object he shares with most of the Hollywood film industry.
But the takeaway is this: Evil is for real. Criminals are for real. They hold dominion over large swaths of life. They are widely and officially celebrated and we are forever encouraged to subordinate ourselves to them. It has always been so, and in that, nothing ever seems to change.