The Slow Inevitable Death of the Individual

I was raised in a fairly mundane household without too much dysfunctional drama. In other words, a bubble. When you grow up like I did you just naively assume people are all like you. Now that I have more hair growing out of my ears and nose I realize that humans are highly programmable and that we aren't all just born with a base of moral code that helps us understand the differences between right and wrong. How could 909 people in Jonestown be convinced of the insane ideas James Jones espoused and, ultimately, to commit mass suicide? How could Manson convince his followers to brutally and senselessly murder the way that they did? How could millions of Germans be convinced that The Final Solution was the path to paradise? How do so many millions Muslims believe in such a barbaric, backwards belief system?

I think that people who grew up in a bubble like I did sometimes take for granted that being an individual that is free to do, think and say as they please is something that should be a human's natural state. But, that is what we were programmed to understand and believe. As Libertarians believe in individuality others just as strongly believe in collectivism. They have been so successfully inculcated in Socialism that the idea of being an individual is not just foreign to them it is terrifying and something to be extinguished.

And, of course, they breed. I see it all of the time. Liberal, group thinkers teaching their offspring not just that that collectivism is good, but that individualism is dangerous, bigoted and evil. All the while they completely ignore the tremendous social dysfunction created by their dogma setting their offspring up for countless disappointments and setting the culture up for disintegration.

Most of us don't know it, or if we do we don't take it as seriously as we should, but there is a real battle being fought right now between good and evil and, in my opinion, evil is way ahead. Evil has control of our educational system at all levels, our news organizations and our entertainment outlets. We are barraged by their backwards messaging all day long and when we disagree with or question any of it we are ostracized and marginalized as bigots, racists and the like. We have a small number of friendly ports on line but we are, for the most part, confined to these enclaves. In the space of 70 years they have become mainstream and we have become the hippie freaks.

The only thing I can do is the same thing they are doing which is to educate my children about the virtues of self ownership, freedom and liberty. In the end, I doubt that will be enough. As we learn of our political leaders seeking legal remedies for questioning things like MMGW (and that will only be the beginning) I know that this will not end well. Freedom can't be stamped out and doesn't die with a whimper, or ever and that can only mean revolution in the end.

It's a shame too. A real waste of human energy. But, it's not like we haven't been warned about all of this. Man has been writing about battles like this since before Shakespeare. In addition to being highly programmable we have short memories. Particularly when it comes to history. I really hope the best for us all.