Individualism Is A Danger

Collectivism is obviously the answer. Ahem. Well, I had the following video, a sympathetic interview of Chris Hedges, suggested by YouTube. So I thought I’d post it to give some idea about how the collectivist are thinking. The “Individualism Danger” idea is presented at about 4:50 in. He does identify “the ineffectual liberal elite” so there is that. But in the end they want to solve the problem of government control by – this will shock you – government control. And they are looking for a viable form of socialism to do this. They might as well be looking for dry water where mermaids live.


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13 responses to “Individualism Is A Danger”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Similar sentiments have been expressed by Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin and Stalin.

    But the leftoids will call ME a fascist if I point this out to them.

    Who was it who said “Everything for the state, everything within the state, nothing outside the state”?

  2. Simon Avatar

    Who was it who said “Everything for the state, everything within the state, nothing outside the state”?

    A state machine designer?

  3. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    Usual libertarian clap trap! How many of you “INDIVIDUALS” live in a cabin you built your self made the cloths you ware eat the food you grew? Same old B.S.! You want the police to protect you! Insted of this bull(smoking bad dope again?) Try to make the place you live in better like I do! My motto is help the people who need help(and they will let you know who they are!) and leave the rest of us alone(liberals don’t like this part of the equation!) That you can sell to people not this survival of the fitest bullcrap. And buy the way you libertarians are not the fitest! Look thru out history who finally survives the sorting out of the survival of the fitest and their CLASSICAL VALUES!

  4. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Mussolini of course.

    Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!
    Hitler

    And the original tricolon:

    Veni, vidi, vinci.
    Caesar

    …when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, when our best-laid plans seem beyond our reach…
    tricolor from Barack Obama, December 10, 2013
    An introspective thought perhaps?

  5. Simon Avatar

    crapaz,

    You mean if I voluntarily cooperate with other people I can’t be a libertarian?

    You mean I must cooperate at he point of a (government) gun?

  6. Gringo Avatar
    Gringo

    Man Mountain Molehill :
    Who was it who said “Everything for the state, everything within the state, nothing outside the state”

    That would be Mussolini, of course.Which reminds us of Fidel Castro’s shopworn phrase:“Within the revolution everything, against the Revolution, nothing.” It is no accident, as Pravda would have once said, that Castro’s statement resembles one of Mussolini’s.

    In Guerrilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro Georgie Ann Geyer’s masterful biography of Fidel Castro, she points out that when Fidel was an adolescent he was an adherent of Fascism- not just Mussolini. For brevity’s sake, this quote is confined to Mussolini.

    With this ideological background of the time, Fidel clearly revealed who his heroes were in his personal life. He walked soberly around the campus with a copy of Mein Kampf (La Lucha) under his arm; in his room, he had a map on his wall upon which he charted the movements and successes of the Axis armies across Europe; for hours, he would stand before a mirror holding a primitive, early recorder, and mimicking Mussolini’s speeches over and over again…..

    The brash and daring Mussolini offered a still more interesting role model for Fidel, who later taught his people to shout to him,¡Comandante-en-Jefe, Ordéne!, [my translation: Commander in Chief, Order us/Tell us what to do.]words which were uncannily similar to Mussolini’s exhortations to his crowds to Credere, Obbidire, Combattere (“Believe, Obey, Fight”). Always Mussolini played endlessly on the theme of the rich versus the poor nations, and Mussolini’s artistry in wooing (and despising) the people through their speeches was eerily akin to Fidel’s.

    Once again, Fascism and Communism are shown to be similar, not diametrically opposed. Recall also that Mussolini began as a Marxist.

  7. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    The myth that fascism is somehow “right wing” was invented by communists desperate to find a way to differentiate themselves from the Third Reich. Repeat after me:
    Stalin gooood
    Hitler baaaad

    (if you’re of a new-leftish bent, substitute Mao or Fidel for Stalin)

    In fact they are both developed forms of socialism, and about as different as coke and pepsi.

    Collectivists all want the same things: power for themselves and death and misery for everyone else.

  8. captain*arizona Avatar
    captain*arizona

    It was not libertarian Ideas that ended slavery or stoped hitler The first was by captain john brown of kansas(and my personel hero) and hitler was not stoped by danish non-violent civil disobediance ;but soviet tank armies! Afterward they explained classical values to the woman of germany! and unfortunetly the rest of eastern europe.

  9. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Collectivists all want the same things: power for themselves and death and misery for everyone else.

    So true. It is interesting to see our Marxist-In-Chief test drone warfare in the Middle East, like Hitler tested the Luftwaffe in Spain before the start of WW2.

    The California Department of Fish & Wildlife has aircraft equipped with highly sophisticated equipment for use by their Special Operations Unit:

    The current SOU has taken many steps to enhance their investigative abilities with training in a wide variety of topics. Technology has moved to the forefront of many investigations with equipment such as GPS tracking units, infrared scopes, pen register phone taps, and much more.

    The heat sensing IR scopes can find where you peed on the ground 15 minutes earlier, they are that sensitive.

    Rumor has it that they have been expanding joint enforcement efforts beyond the DEA and local sheriff to include Homeland Security.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fish_and_Wildlife

  10. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    This will not end well.