Below is a chapter from my book,
"News From Meat Street: Life on a Planet That's Lost Its Soul". It was mainly about the mental health
industry. But I think it's also a good analogy for socialism.
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Flatliners
The “experts” find all
sorts of ways to make you stay up nights. One way is to show how crazy
we all are. Being normal has become a state that has no peaks or
valleys. No ups, no downs. Just a nice, boring state where no one does,
says or feels a whole lot.
For instance, it’s considered a
mental problem to be depressed. But it’s also a sign of mental problems
to be too happy. They call it “manic” (makes it sound clinical, doesn’t
it?) They’ll call you in to see the school counselor if your child’s
not too bright. They’ll also call you in if he’s too bright. The theory
goes, “We could be looking at mental problems down the road due to your
child standing out in the crowd. The other kids will torment him for
being too stupid/smart, so we must get him some counseling.” Anything
they consider “too much” has to be leveled out. Make everyone nice and
dull and similar. No flunkies. No geniuses. (They even tell us that
genius is close to insanity, but that’s a whole ‘nother chapter.)
It’s
also interesting that the “therapy” of choice these days–drugs –has the
same effect as their philosophy. When you take a psychiatric drug to
keep you from getting depressed, the drug doesn’t know the difference
between a good emotion and a bad one. It just dulls them all down. Once
again doing away with the peaks and the valleys.
Life
is peaks
and valleys. That’s what makes things interesting. Life is a game and
the only reason one is interested in playing a game is if there is
something to win and lose. One of the reasons our schools are doing so
poorly is that the “experts” have infested the education system with
the idea that competition is harmful. Lets do away with grades. Let no
child fail! It hurts the student’s self-esteem. Bull! Self-esteem comes
from competence.
Current mental health theories and psychiatric
drugs take away the ups and downs. And if you’re on a life support
system and the machine you’re hooked up to stops showing peaks and
valleys –you’ve flatlined. You’re dead.