“Science is more modest. It is aware of the limits of the human mind and of the human search for knowledge. It aims at tracing back every phenomenon to its cause. But it realizes that these endeavors must necessarily strike against insurmountable walls. There are phenomena which cannot be analyzed and traced back to other phenomena. They are the ultimate given.” Mises, Human Action
Political amnesia is real, the result of the ultimate given being reset with each major vote.
Until the pending crack up of the current system, there will be no repeal of socialized health care. Why?
Every search for knowledge ends with the ultimate given — which today includes the existence of socialized health care.
The past that existed before the vote is now hidden behind an insurmountable wall, so to speak. It is forgotten. In 10 years, most folks will not be able to conceive of a system where government does not run health care.
From this point forward, all actions will build upon our new ultimate given. Onward and upward — until the crack up becomes reality.
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Quite dismal that commentary is.
“The past that existed before the vote is now hidden behind an insurmountable wall, so to speak. It is forgotten. In 10 years, most folks will not be able to conceive of a system where government does not run health care.”
It will be worse than that. Here in Canada where we are “ahead” of the USA in the communistic medicine department, not only can people not conceive of private medicine any more, but they are actually brainwashed into thinking that this is the greatest thing about their country. Everyone knows that costs are spiraling out of control and that no jurisdiction anywhere in the world with socialist health care can balance its budget. Everyone has a close relative with a major, life threatening medical problem who is/was stuck on a waiting list, or who had to break the piggy bank and buy an extremely expensive MRI or go for $$$ treatment outside of Canada. Everyone knows that many people can’t find a family doctor, and that many doctors are retiring early or cutting back on hours. Everyone knows that the political and business elites and their family members jump to the front of the queue. Many of them are aware that there is a looming demographic crisis in which the number of tax slaves cannot possibly pay for high quality medical care for the huge bulge of aging people. And still … in their heart of hearts they know that this system is GREAT and THANK GOD we don’t have to pay for it like that PRIVATE SYSTEM in the USA.
“From this point forward, all actions will build upon our new ultimate given. Onward and upward — until the crack up becomes reality.”
Let us hope that this crack up comes sooner then later. There is no point in prolonging the agony.
“Let us hope that this crack up comes sooner then later. There is no point in prolonging the agony.”
How about allowing a bit more time before the impending crack-up to so more people can join together in an underground economy? Perhaps that way there will be just a few more “survivors”
“Crack up.” I too have pondered the issue for some time as it is quite clear that the growth of the beast of the State is now exponential. The State is further secured by its tool of State sanctioned “education” to indoctrinate the public at large to fully accept entitlements in the name of the “public good.” However if it exists that the so-called “Social Contract” has its foundations on the premise that human beings are basically good by nature, but are corrupted by “civil society;” then the State is the “ultimate given” in corruption. However, I ponder a much deeper issue in that is the human condition at a point in which we have reached the “absurd?” Does one value life over liberty or liberty over life? If one chooses life, then one is ultimately owned by the State that is the happenstance of the time/space that one occupies as he/she is a material being. Or has the so-called “Social Contract” devolved to the point in which the human condition has long left the state of natural equilibrium. To quote Agent Smith from The Matrix, “I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we are the cure.” Is the cure the State or the absurd? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
Americans insist on immitating Europeans without bothering to look at European history. All of Europe is backpeddling on socialism because they have hit the limit of their resources. They can’t borrow much more and can’t raise taxes any more, so their only solution is to cut back on socialist services. Americans are too stupid to learn from the European experience, so we have to follow along blindly and stupidly in their path, repeating their mistakes.
No one can sell socialism to the Chinese today. Americans can’t learn from others, but when the full effects of socialism become too obvious to deny, even for hard core socialists, we will have no choice but to change our ways.
The healthcare bill will make a lot of things much worse. Premiums will rise dramatically. As a result, more people will go without insurance and more businesses will quit paying for insurance for employees. The budget deficit will soar as the feds try to pay the insurance costs of so many who have lost insurance because of the bill.
All this bill does is put more of our future in the hands of the Chinese who must loan the feds the money they need to pay for.
To proceed boldly against evil at this point, then, we must hasten the crack-up and make sure that institutions are ready to peacefully collect the pieces.
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