Over the last few months since seeing "The Incredibles", I've mulled over a line from that movie several times. The antagonist, Syndrome, in his solliloquoy to Mr. Incredible tells of how his inventions will empower everyone to be superheroes in their own right, including persons such as himself with lackluster appertaining thereunto and who have no call on the types of activities in which superheroes engage. As he leaves, he tells Mr. Incredible that "when everyone's super, noone will be."
This villainy currently plays out in our national scene. In the name of equality and "for the children", self-described "compassionate" Americans sing the praises of a communistic/marxist regime as a way to make life fair. They forget that life isn't fair, and in many instances, the voices that scream the loudest for fairness and equality stand out among us for their affluence and notoriety.
Marxists in America know nothing of communism's dastardly effects, never having lived under it. I remember Austrians criticizing me for the US Army's cessation of invasion and asking why the Americans didn't liberate their towns. When the Russian communists rolled into Austria, they left a wake of carnage and anguish that resonates still in that nation.
I find the sounding cry of marxists highly ironic. Many of them are entrepreneurs, which communistic regimes don't tolerate. Even more depend on free speech for their livelihood and rhetoric, another instance communism cannot abide. Communists hate Hollywood even as Hollywood fauns over them. Even more atrocious, so many people in Hollywood clandestinely opine for a communist world. Their willful blindness and the ignorance of the masses constitute a volatile mixture.
Many of them are rich or even ueberrich. Yet, they think it's not fair for CEOs to earn big salaries. If they were so idealistic, why don't they give up what they have and take a vow of poverty? Moreover, leaders of terrorist groups, dictators, and revolutionaries typically own much more money than the common Joe. None of them care about us.
Much of the world is poor, including most notably our neighbors to the south. If American Capitalism is so evil, why do so many Mexicans clamour for entrance to our shores, against the throws of legality and in defiance of propriety and law? Among the poor in America we find few professed communists, yet each of the poor clamors for his "fair share" when windfall assets are to be divvied out forcibly from those who obtain by their industry. Out of this greed and envy, the poor take relish socking it to the rich, even when those initiatives leave them bereft of even crumbs from the table of industry.
The ability of communists to prey on the rich and rally the poor depends upon a continuation of the system as presently constituted. Their continued intrusions on capital indomitably remove incentives to become rich, and eventually reduce those who currently classify as rich to an equal state of misery and woe as their neighbors. From whom then can they steal capital and make good on their promises?
One of the communist's largest attacks is on religion, all the while preaching compassion and brotherly love espoused thereby. They know that in religion we find both reason for those values and the actuary opportunities to do so in a manner that truly elevates the individual. Communists cannot abide a God under which they might have to bow, even when he promises them everything they could ever want. They sing the songs from Culture Beat "I know what I want and I want it now." Their vanity and greed are insatiable.
God's first commandments in the Garden of Eden bear further scrutiny. He first commanded Adam and Eve to dress the garden and take good care of it, so long as they refrained from eating from one particular tree. They ate fruit from trees they did not plant, and although appointed as stewards, the obsequious commandment set no benchmarks and expected no quotas. The garden was for them, not they for it. It existed and would exist even in their absence. God then commanded them to multiply, not just in seed as assumed, but also in all things they had.
What of Job, the rich man who walked peaceably before God? In the case of Job, God took no issue whatsoever with Job's affluence on account of Job's peaceable and obedient walk. Job obtained his prosperity by the sweat of his own brow. God had no problem with Job's wealth compared to his neighbors because Job obtained his wealth by the sweat of his brow, and Job was a great benefactor, voluntarily, to his neighbors and friends. The best cure for poverty and inequality comes in the form of a slieu of rich men who of their own volition impart of their substance to those in need, without compulsory means, forever and ever.
Ironically, recent elections resulted in a sweep of conservative victories in Iran despite their dictatorial regime. People clamour to be free. People want to find their own way. That's why they flock to America through all time, a place where every man may prosper by his own industry.
You cannot force equality without cutting down those who rise above. Equality is a noble ideal, but it is not possible while some people prey upon others. Stop trying to make earth, which is fallen, the utopia that heaven alone can sustain.
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