Essays in Idleness

“You will be free if you do as we say”; this has been the immortal leftwing claim, since the Left manned the guillotines in Revolutionary France; and since then the Left has been in power, potentially when not actually. Of course, you will not be made free if you do as they say, nor will you be consulted. The Left is selling a programme of “progress” that will never be realized, for it is determined by “experts” who are consistently wrong. Moreover, it was never intended to be realized. It is their essential sales pitch, however, by which a significant portion of any population can be “played.” It is all about power, which is what leftwing people live for.

Yet the powerful are not free, either. They cannot move without tripping over themselves. They get caught in their own spider-web bureaucracies, the poor darlings.

While having nothing to do with principle, in reality, this has been the consistent plan of every leftwing party; it is planning itself. Some of it is merely arbitrary, but under the surface, it is satanic. A “Liberal” party, or “Democrats,” or “Labour,” will certainly tell you what to do. They will have a plan. And you are to obey them, on the promise that you will be rewarded. However, they have no comprehension of what works, and what doesn’t, on God’s green earth. Their promises are, invariably, lies; although “bullshit” is the more accurate term, for the power-hungry may not consciously lie; they simply do not care what is true. In return, for all the sacrifices one makes, to obey their rules and regulations and pay for their extravagant schemes, you will get nothing.

Veritably, it has been said, that if you establish socialism in the Sahara, there will soon be a shortage of sand.

All leftwing parties, without exception, limit freedom. They impose, by their nature. Often this is done by simply taxing more than half of one’s income, plus deficit spending, on things of no value. (“Climate change” is the ultimate leftwing fraud.) Alas, so do many rightwing parties “tax and spend,” shamelessly, for it is necessary to finance corruption, and besides, they find themselves competing for the moronic vote, which is a strong majority in urban constituencies.

General intelligence dips precipitously in urban areas. Crowding is the leftist’s companion, because it guarantees a public that will be increasingly distracted, and stupid. It also provides the excuse for endless, mindless bureaucracy. “Crowd control” must be everywhere in cities, and wherever we look we see a forest of “traffic signs,” and omnipresent police.

Worse, however, is that all of us — not only the stupid ones — must live in a commonwealth of lies, by lies, and for lies. This is inconvenient.