A Journal for Western Man-- Issue III
Part II
G. Stolyarov II
Mugabe received another outpouring of support at the summit, from a horde of fanatical protesters apparently intimidating it because they perceived the gathering’s policies to be insufficiently radical! A Chicago Tribune article of Sunday, September 1, 2002, declared that their primary goals were to receive “land for the landless and an end to privatization.” Now, wait a minute. Upon retrospect, how can such initiatives benefit anyone? Land is a market commodity in free countries, and men who own it have deserved it through their productive labors. The fact of their ownership demonstrates their capacity to develop it, earn their own profit, and as a side effect benefit their clients and consumers through consensual commercial exchanges. To grant land to those undeserving is to create a deterrent effect for such men of action, who will realize that the further they refine their unstable property the more alluring a prize it would seem for “the landless”, who had not cultivated their land nor possess the material commodities desirable to the owner in exchange for the land. Essentially, their demand had been carried out by Mugabe in Zimbabwe, as he had expropriated prosperous farmers, nationalized their fields, and now may place there whomever he selects. And whomever he selects will be parasites, just like the landless looters which the protesters are. The Chicago Tribune article mentions that the origin of the vast majority of the demonstrators is from the slums. The slums had formed in the first place as a result of government wage regulations to bar men from working if their labor were below a certain mandated level, which had created a permanent underclass of government dependents, who had over generations been groomed to accept parasitism as a social and behavioral norm. The protesters merely translated it onto the world at large, seeking to transform it into one gigantic welfare bureaucracy with six billion helpless dependents constantly trembling for fear that they would not obtain a bite to eat tomorrow and therefore groveling at the heels of the omnipotent clerks at distribution points. Is that an optimal situation for these people? No. Had they lived in a laissez-faire capitalistic system, all of them would have been employed and prosperous in proportion to their merits and efforts exerted. Yet, that having been barred from their ancestors, they have been transformed into incapacitated parasites, whose only means of survival is expropriation of the producers. Was it not a convenient scheme for totalitarian governments or even mixed-economy regulators to inexorably degrade these people to the level where their only means of support is somebody else’s ruin, and the only means to obtain that ruin is through the coercive hand of big, authoritarian government? Indeed, big, authoritarian government was precisely the role model they had upheld. They cheered at Mugabe’s land confiscations, extolling them as an example of the overall redistribution of wealth that they propagated. They have jumped onto the socialist bandwagon when it lunged into an abyss, and remaining there is their only bet for surviving a few seconds longer. They, however, are mere minions. The blame must be placed on the socialist governments of the world, who had imposed wage restrictions, or more radical dictatorships such as Mugabe’s, who had incited parasitism by offering for free that which can justly only be bought. Mugabe’s predecessors across the world, in the United States even, had established the conditions for a positive loop, an escalating cycle of dictatorships obtaining support from impoverished masses, resulting in increasingly oppressive dictatorships and increasingly impoverished masses, wherefore the level of totalitarian control rises once more and so forth. Parasites at the top have created parasites at the bottom, and the alliance grows. While this may seem only a practice of the radical left only, it is in fact manifested at every level of the summit.
Mugabe had rigged an election, but at least he is attempting to seem democratic, feigning his legitimacy. The bureaucrats of the United Nations and the majority of its dictators do not even pretend to have been elected by the people of any country. Their ambassadors have been appointed by governments, not selected through majority vote. The greatest rigging emerges from the fact that said officials, even from Western nations, endorse or passively resign themselves to backward regulatory proposals that their home countries’ populations do not desire, and which would have been even illegal under the Constitutional rights of such nations as the United States. They fall into the trap crafted for them by the regulators and their mentality of altruism, which manufactures bogus “rights” such as those of education and housing. If the two cease being a market commodity and their providers are deprived of the right to accept or refuse a particular transaction, the teachers and the builders become bound in literal slavery, because they possess superlative skills which are in high demand. And, just as in the case of the farmers, ability will not be exercised, for men will realize that its practice merely augments their liabilities toward the ignorant and the homeless. Quality of learning and quality of building will decline, and living standards along with them, creating yet another horde of living corpses maintained solely by the rising tide of expropriation by big-and-growing government. The protesters may be clamoring for expropriations, but the Johannesburg Summit is already implementing them in a neat, tidy, bureaucratic fashion.
Only when the men of action are willing to surrender their profits without reward or customer selection power to the leeches can parasitism continue indefinitely. Only if nations such as the United States, Britain, Israel, and other fading bastions of the free world perpetuate their participation in the Third World conglomerate that is the U.N. will their intellectuals be censored by "planned educational curricula", their construction companies inhibited by "planned development zones", and the ultimate goal of the parasites ultimately come to the forefront.
The identity of that goal should be first pinpointed philosophically. The aim of altruism is the antithesis of the merit hierarchy, that is the penalization of virtue and the subsidization of vice. This, although cloaked by flowery moral rhetoric, is the ultimate repudiation of morality, that is, nihilism. In every dimension of existence, physical, intellectual or psychological, the consequence of nihilism is the plummeting of all men below the level of the parasites, into the relationship occurring between the expropriator, Mugabe, and the dependent, the protester from the slums. The parasite cannot elevate himself, but he yearns for power and luxury, even if they are relative to men around him dwelling in simple filth. Ultimately nihilism is to be a return to the dilapidated thatch hovels or skin tents of Paleolithic tribes, whose members were dependents of chieftains and witch doctors who retaliated brutally against any attempt to amend or improve upon stale, century-old dictates of primitive ritual. The ultimate essence of nihilism is not control by each man of his own destiny, but submission to the whims of his surroundings, as was the lifestyle of stagnant tribes who did not bother developing agriculture, philosophy, and technology. To apply this to the Johannesburg Summit, what greater application of abdication mentality does there exist than man's subordination to barren, inanimate matter, or automatic unthinking animals, an elevation of their interests above his own through the curtailment of human expansion into their "habitat" at the expense of the freedom of the economy, of the amount of goods available to increase the quality of life, of technological progress, and of human life expectancy? In the animist spirit of the witch doctor the U.N. bureaucrats seek to dub green shrubs and dung beetles intrinsically sacred, and woe to him who dares to defy the superstition or even identify it as such! A "right" to a "pristine" or "untouched" environment is not identical to a healthy environment, which can be created by meritorious men of their own accord and using their own private property, but rather amounts to "a right to be barred from employing natural resources to ameliorate one's existence". Only voluntary, private individual actions for adaptation of the environment to human needs are to be curtailed, however, not social planning schemes to grant precisely that amount of conveniences to a certain group of parasites as deemed expedient by the dictator or authoritarian committee for the sole sake of its remaining in power and resuming its higher-level parasitism. "They do not want to live. They want you to die." If they die along with you, their nihilism justifies it for them perfectly. After all, if the top of the lack of value hierarchy is to be the ultimate non-value, then death is precisely the aim that their power will lead them to pursue, yours, then their own. That is why mankind has remained in a quagmire of stagnation for the majority of its existence, and still lingers there in nations that have not seen the light of the Industrial Revolution and traces of free-market capitalism.