Invincibly Incompetent Idiots

by Alvin Plummer
Apr. 11, 2007

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

~ G. K. Chesterton

In his article "Mind Makes Right: Brain damage, evolution, and the future of morality," William Saletan outlines why, in the latest attempt of the Brave New World, we can soon expect to have our brains reprogrammed by Responsible Authorities – licensed by the State, of course – to uphold whatever moral code they dreamt up last night. After all, direct reprogramming insures tighter control than gulags, torture chambers, ThoughtCrime laws, and media manipulation could ever do – therefore, it’s obviously the way of the future.

This new tool to crush all opposition – the ability to subvert the independent judgment of (increasingly less) Free Men – is supposed to be a Revolution in Morality. You know, in the same way a loaded pistol to the head can also causes a Revolution in Morality. By the very title of his article, the author shows his perfect understanding of the issues involved here.

But this time, the power to forcibly rewire Wrong Thought is itself the New God, and must replace both Christianity (aka "religion") and atheistic naturalism (aka "philosophy") with a new atheistic naturalism (aka "utilitarianism") that will insure The Greatest Good For the Greatest Number.

If you can tell me how turning ordinary men into psychopaths – the only personality type allowed in the New Dispensation – by forcibly inflicting brain damage is supposed to lead us into the Visionary World of the Future, I would love to hear it.

Well, OK, I don’t want to hear it – I have to deal with enough delusions, lies, and propaganda in my daily life. I have no need for yet another plate of fecal matter served up with a sprinkling of sugar on top.

The intellectuals' worship of Power per se has long been nauseating – if completely unsurprising for anyone who has studied the March of Reason since Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, and Hume. Now, it is not only evil and diseased, but increasingly delusional and pathetic.

Just consider what is being discussed, from the "pragmatic" – that is, the power-hungry, viciously cruel, and ridiculously short-sighted – point of view:

I am amazed with the trust our idealistic, oh-so-superior elites place in bureaucrats. I shouldn’t be by now – the Mental Masters have consistently rewarded bureaucratic failure & incompetence, everywhere in the world, at all times – but I really am. Who knows: maybe one day I’ll learn what a "Ph.D" really stands for…
I wonder what happened to all the Great New Moralities that were supposed to replace Christianity. Nazism anyone? Communism? Racialism? The Civilizing Mission? Free Love? The Rule of Reason?
The need to Suppress All Dissent only blinds Dear Leader & his Step’n’Fetch It Court Intellectuals to reality1. The ability to insure that no one ever contradicts Official Truth – not even in the privacy of their own heads – means that the very possibility to get of the railway track no longer exists: not for Dear Leader, and not for the reprogrammed organic androids underneath him.
I am amused with the idea of just how Our Masters plan to reprogram the masses. Using what funds? The money wasted in various warfare/welfare programs? The cash lost in various corporate corruption – pardon me, "corporate welfare" – initiatives? And who will administer the program? Seventy-year-old baby boomers? Muslim or Mexican immigrants? Public school graduates? The ghosts of 50 million aborted children – the dead future of the elites?
The sheer pathetic level of current elite discourse can be presented in a single quote: "Some of those fights are about morality. Maybe abortion grosses you out, but you'd rather keep it safe and legal."

Obviously, the word "murder" isn't part of the New Morality (version 8... or is it 80? I'm losing track now.)
The essential ideal of this article can be reduced to two quotes: "According to the neuroscientists, philosophers on both sides are wrong, because morality doesn't come from God or transcendent reason. It comes from the brain."

"Right now, we're discovering the seat of morality," warns NIO President Zack Lynch. "In 10 to 15 years, we'll have the technologies to manipulate it."

Yes, these highly-educated cretins think that morality exists because we wish it to be so. I await the day they decide that gravity and cyanide also operates on the same principle.

The modernist "Ye shall be as Gods, determining good and evil" parade has been running for quite a while now. It will continue to run until the welfare/warfare state visibly crashes – just like Marxism was abandoned, not because of loathsome activities, but because the power of the Soviet State failed.

These Rationalistic, Ph.D intellectuals are so predictable, don’t you think? An observant, homeschooled seven-year-old could predict their actions and words 80% of the time. All the little boy really needs to know is the lodestar that these moral & mental midgets steer by: "Maximize Power, Minimize Responsibility!" Everything else you need to know about them can be picked up on the web, with the occasional assistance of a godly old grandma (like the babushka’s of Soviet Russia) and the Book of Proverbs: "Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who repeats his folly."

Both the quality and confidence of these Idiot Parade reruns are increasingly laughable, as they ever return to its fly-covered vomit. But those of us who distain both the State Banking & the State Warfare/Welfare rackets will be free of them both if we persevere, stick to our knitting, and remember: Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito, "do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it." (Thanks Mises!)

As these senile fools jam their face into their own waste again, our intellectual duty is clear: force them to admit the consequences of their actions. Refuse to allow them to escape the results of their own cant and deceits. Hold them to their vomit of lies, until they drown in it. A simple example will suffice to illustrate the point:

"In a utilitarian world, you do what it takes. It's all about helping people."

Yeah, "helping people – whenever they want to be helped, or not."

"But THIS time, we really mean it!"

* snort *

"Nothing must stop the March Of Progress!"

* giggle *

"It's for The Good Of The Race!"

* MOCKING LAUGHTER *

"No, No… I meant The Good Of The People!"

*SQUEAL* *GIGGLE* *COUGH COUGH* *Hee hee hee*

"No – I meant Diversity, Equality and Choice!"

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA*

"Human Rights! The Environment! The People’s Revolution! Democracy! Mental Hygiene! The Sake of the Children! Living Room! Tolerance! Good Health! The Economy!"

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1My sincere, deepest apologies to the slaves. Comparing actual illiterate, worn-out, and impoverished slaves with Our Ruling Elites is as contrasting a bright shining star with fetid pond scum. One is a humble and beaten man, the other is some uncaring, automated Thing – a Thing whose only vision is to turn all other men into Things.

"For the Greater Good of All," of course.

April 10, 2007

Alvin Plummer [send him mail], globetrotter, is currently working in Piura, Peru.

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