Little Red Men

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After dinner last night, my dad showed me a video on youtube he found particularly illuminating. It shows Reagan 'schooling' Obama on why his ideas are foolish, but it's not a new idea. It's always been the aim of the elites to convert us all into Little Red Men.

Here's the video: In this video, it illustrates the notion that, if you give everyone the same grade, it changes incentives. The slackers and shirkers like it at first because they benefit from the work done by others. Eventually, everyone is unhappy because the skilled and intelligent lose incentive to perform if they cannot reap what they sow. I do find it very ironic that many liberals believe in Karma but deny conservatives the right to reap what they sow.

The truth is that this illustration is not a new thing. In his book American Colonies, Alan Taylor describes a Rhode Island colony founded by Roger Williams. Originally, the colony was divided into equal plots, and everyone brought the fruits of their labor together to share. After about two years, Williams dissolved the pact, having discovered that the lazy among them in an attempt to glut themselves on the labors of their zealous neighbors brought nothing to the table but expected to take away from it sufficient for their needs. This sick, dystopian, and essentially anti-American idea failed utterly because it ignored the nature of man.

My mother really overhyped the tale of the Little Red Hen as a child. She will still sometimes refer to herself as that character parenthetically, particularly when she feels like she bears the lion's share of the work. For those unfamiliar with the story, a Little Red Hen goes around the barnyard attempting to solicit help in preparing bread. She plants grain, harvests it, grinds it, and bakes it, all the while refused any help by all the other animals on the farm. However, when the time comes to eat the bread and she asks "Who will help me eat the bread?", the fox, the cow, the goats, the pigs, ad infinitum all excitedly declare, "I will help you eat the bread". At that point however, the Hen gives it to her chicks, because the others have no right to reap what they have not sown.

Our politicians, particularly and specifically liberals, live according to the misbegotten notion that people can reap what others have sown. To do this, they lean on our Christian sensibilities; the rest of the time they mock us for our "sad devotion to an ancient religion". They tell us that if we just work together things will be better. They might, but I ask the same question asked by Patrick Henry when the British seemed likely to satiate the demands of the colonists. "And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House". It failed with Roger Williams. It will fail today because the morality of the people will not sustain the charity on which such a supposition relies.

Liberals attempt to build a utopia on earth without the assistance and principles of heaven. They try to make among men, who are fallen, the utopia that heaven alone can sustain. In their efforts, they will make all of us Little Red Men, forcing us in the end to share the bread we bake with all animals of the barnyard, even though some of them not only do nothing to help but actively try to prevent us from success. They say they believe in karma, and then they deny us the right to reap what we sow, because it's greedy. Well, there's another type of Little Red Men, the tormentors of the adversary who in their Hellish Philosophy glory in sucking the life of their victims. As CS Lewis wrote in the Screwtape Letters:

He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself—creatures whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His. We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over.

We want to fill the world with copies of ourselves, with more people who are excellent, amazing, wealthy, prosperous, and hopefully happy. They want to absorb, consume, suck, and be filled. God taught us to give.