Socialism And The Soul

Dancing to the Superfriends theme on a pair of soul less slippers, I ate Ritz crackers - yo beyotch close them drapes and stop staring into my kitchen! Maybe it was the wondrous taste my snack or the inspiration of watching Green Lantern, Bat Man and Robin, Aquaman and Superman team up in unison to create the greatest forces of good and justice for all mankind that got me thinking of how socialism ruins and destroys the individual soul.

Socialism is destructive because on its surface it comes in peace. On the front end, that is the exterior, it seems functional even natural to our existence.

It possesses, Lord knows, good intentions. But it can't possibly cure what ails mankind through the power of the state. Using coercion to force one segment of the population to submit to another against its will, under the guise of the greater good, does leave a corrosive impact somewhere down the line of our individual consciousness.You have to take from individualism to give to socialism.

Furiously the crumbs fall to the ground. The theme song is now over. I discover Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

I shamefully take but one excerpt and copy/paste it here:

Individualism, then, is what through Socialism we are to attain to. As a natural result the State must give up all idea of government. It must give it up because, as a wise man once said many centuries before Christ, there is such a thing as leaving mankind alone; there is no such thing as governing mankind. All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is violently, grossly, and cruelly used, it produces a good effect by creating, or at any rate bringing out, the spirit of revolt and individualism that is to kill it. When it is used with a certain amount of kindness, and accompanied by prizes and rewards, it is dreadfully demoralising. People, in that case, are less conscious of the horrible pressure that is being put on them, and so go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other people's thoughts, living by other people's standards, wearing practically what one may call other people's second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment. "He who would be free," says a fine thinker, "must not conform." And authority, by bribing people to conform, produces a very gross kind of overfed barbarism amongst us.