Whence Goeth Self Reliance and Self Respect

Whence Goeth Self Reliance and Self Respect? Ideally, one would perhaps wish to preserve one’s pursuits in respect of one’s friends and one’s concept of God. For that, there would be freedom of expression and arms length freedom of enterprise. In that connection, where are we now, and where are we headed?

For the masses, that ideal may not much longer be sustainable. We may be unavoidably headed to collectivism. We see that government is needed for some essentials. We see that government is inefficient for accomplishing some things that are more suited either to competitive free enterprise (driven by profit motive) or to charity (driven by closer connection between the needy and their well meaning and voluntary benefactors). For such purposes, for awhile, there was competition among small businesses and small operations and charities.

Now, however, businesses and operations have discovered the enormous advantages that can be had by buying influence among governmental agents and politicians. Buying and trading interests and pull in government has become an industry, and it has so advantaged some interests as to avail them with virtually impregnable and oligopolistic powers. The result is ever bigger, even international, corporations and operations, so that small operations are relentlessly being squeezed and regulated into oblivion.

Once big corporations and operations own and run government, there will be no need of profit motive, because the positions of power elites will be otherwise secured. This means merit will be otherwise measured. For most, there will be little chance to betterment in terms of material success, influence, personal autonomy, or creativity -- except as one learns to please (brownnose) those who are in position to improve one’s position. For a select few of considerable special talent, there may remain occasional opportunities to impress and advance based on substantive skill and merit. However, there will be little urgency among the new aristocracy to find or reward such merit. This collectivism via corporatism will share much in common with the collectivism of Marxism, even as international corporatism replaces Marxism.

This kind of collectivism will return most of mankind, even Americans, to a position of less self respect and empathy for God and others. This is to be the New World Order. To delay it, we need a third political party. As things stand, we have no representation of traditional, independent minded Americans. Instead, what we have is Progressives: Progressives of the kind for financing the collectivizing of the masses (Rinos); and Progressives of the kind for wanting to be equally secured and collectivized (Dinos). Although they take turns regulating us, both kinds of Progressives are leading us to the same kind of New World Order. Neither kind is trying to delay or divert, much less change, the ultimate, fundamental direction.

If we want at least to delay this relentless demolishing of the American ideal of individual self respect, self reliance, and freedom to think and act, it is clear that we need to enforce borders, preserve industry, guard immigration, and regulate foreign entanglements. For that, neither Rinos nor Dinos are on board.

Regardless, what is the teleology? Is there any choice but to succumb to a corporatist N.W.O.? How can individual liberty, privacy, and power be conserved among the masses of Americans? In an age of suitcase bombs, how can privacy and autonomy much longer be preserved? Can computers, robots, and technology empower us to preserve worthwhile autonomy of expression among the masses? Can or will a more intelligent appreciation of God?