Shower Thoughts (thanks to Will Durant in “Caesar And Christ” Vol III of “The Story of Civilization”)
Socialism is a venomous application, disguised as an easy solve to the hardship end of a stressed system, that turns the participants into food for the predator.
Socialist Democrats are the eventuality of a party that uses the democratic components of a democratic republic to undermine the stability of the republic. This is done by manipulating the populous to install destructive policies using manipulations through broadcast rhetoric and deceitful social pressures that shift the compass from freedom and responsibility as a participating society to a that of a protected society dependent upon the state.
This is the stage of an empire where the populous abuses the democracy and takes what they want from others, which precedes the “revolutionary chaos” phase, whereby the dictator rises, leading back to the beginning again, at Monarchy.
It’s a cycle. Our job is to fend it off, but it doesn’t appear avoidable, because we’re perpetually living this out across cultures and millennia. Religion seems to be the only thing that persists across 10 generations or more. Everything else falls away, either by disregard or the ever-failing memory of humanity. I’m beginning to see why religion. It isn’t spiritual. It’s humanity carrying goals across generations. Pick yours wisely and play for your team, I suppose. We’re bugs on a rock hurtling through space. Our lives matter to us, but not to stone. This sounds hopeless, but it’s actually freeing. Get to living. Make your goals that are bigger than you. Live a life that’s uplifting to future generations. I choose freedom, integrity, power in purpose, and community; with a heavy lean toward global cooperation and competition with as little violent conflict as we can manage. GM.
