Yellow Dog [Part 9]

Marx,

Of course, I’m not missing your point at all. I understand the concept of media bias. I know that thirty people can witness the same event and write thirty different stories. This is not a new idea. That is why when we read history or watch the news or read someone’s eye-witness account, or whatever, we have to take our values with us.

I don’t reject Michael Moore, for example, because he creates entertaining movies and calls them documentaries, or because he cuts and edits film to make people look ridiculous, uncaring, dishonest, or whatever he wants them to look like. I hate Michael Moore and his movies because he is a collectivist-altruist, cynical, hypocritical collection of raw sewage. He is a statist and a socialist. When I show his films in my classes I always point out to my students that Moore is a talented film-maker and an excellent propagandist for his cause. What I reject is his cause. Take Sicko, for example. Moore makes the case for universal health care. I don’t care if all of Moore’s video or none of his video is doctored, altered, pure fiction or gospel truth...It wouldn’t matter if every sick person shown in the movies was a Hollywood actor reading a script, or my next door neighbor, or me! I reject entirely [philosophically] with every fiber in my being his first premise: People have a right to health care. This is an irrational and dangerous position to hold if you believe in liberty. Health care—hospitals, doctors, and prescription drugs COST MONEY. Nobody has a right to anything that costs money. We all need health care, but the fact that people need food, clothing, and shelter does not give anyone a right to these things.

Wealth doesn’t just “exist.” Wealth is created. Individuals have an absolute right to the wealth they create. In a free, capitalist system individuals come to the market place to trade with other individuals, value for value. My paycheck represents real work, real value that I have created. People can not morally consume more than they produce. One who produces nothing has nothing to trade. What do they bring to the market place? 1. their tears [the moochers] or 2. their guns [the looters]. Looters and moochers offer nothing of value in exchange for your productivity... Looters steal your wealth by force; moochers count on your acceptance of the altruist code and “guilt you” into handing it over.

The welfare state is actually a combination of the two: collectivist-altruist politicians are guilted into forcing taxpayers to hand over their wealth. In other words, they use the tools of the looter to achieve the immoral goal of the moocher!

In his films. Moore uses both, too. He appeals to his audience on a purely emotional level. [Nobody likes to see human beings suffering, particularly when they did nothing to deserve their condition.] The altruist Moore uses your own guilt to soften you up to the point where you gladly leave reason at the door...Like Hitler he calls his followers to ACT! Don’t think. ACT! Something, ANYTHING must be done! Then he sics the politicians on you. Politicians, of course, produce nothing. The only tool they have at their disposal is force. Through the progressive tax code, socialist politicians force the producers to hand over the products of their labor so that their wealth may be distributed to others, people who did not produce it. This forced sacrifice “for the greater good” is nothing less than extortion.

Altruist-collectivists sacrifice JUSTICE and reward sloth and indifference to reality. Their socialist schemes destroy economic freedom, destroy liberty and ultimately enable the politicians to destroy the producers.

Try this experiment with your classes. After your next test tell your students that you’re going to add up all of the points everybody made and divide them evenly among all of your students. Students who made Ds and Fs will think this is a fine idea...they’ll be getting something of value for nothing. You’re the government, so of course you can force the A and B students to hand over the points...They will undoubtedly [and correctly] believe that your system is unjust, but you have the power to imprison them or even execute them, so they’re not going to give you too much of fight. They’ll get permits and protest a bit, here and there, but they’ll never attack you personally. After a while the producers, the A and B students, will stop trying so hard to get ahead. What’s the point? There will be fewer points to go around...the D and F students will demand more...they will believe that they are entitled to it...Good grades are my RIGHT! There are more of them than A, B, students by now...you’ve done the math...there are fewer points to go around. You’ll try to persuade your former A and B students to work harder “for the greater good,” for the “motherland,” for your brother-men. Before long that empty promise will fail, too. My right to keep the A that I earned is the greater good. Justice is a greater good. Eventually, you will have to crack down on the dissidents, start detaining your former A and B students, force them to study after school...set quotas based on their pre-experiment test scores...Finally, you will announce your Four Year Plan and promise that if everybody does their DUTY to the STATE that all will be better for it on graduation day four years hence.

After graduation, your former A and B students will either:

>flee to the West where [still] one can keep most of the products of their labor [the US is the world’s greatest beneficiary of Eastern brain drain];

>join their former oppressor, become a card-carrying member of the collective elite, and take the club to the next generation of suckers...er...ah...brothers.


Donn