Reply #199: No alternatives here, just the SOS

[Meliorist]

Jon, in all liklihood, this will be my last post on this site, for reasons I will make clear.

After having spent a good portion of my life working for change in our society, I, like many other people, have become dissatisfied with the choices presented to us by our political establishment. When I became aware of this site, I decided to check it out, in the (vain) hope that there was something going on here that would present a possibility of more attractive options to the "same old, same old" remedies offered by that establishment.

Tough luck for me. After thoroughly reading this, and many other threads on this site, all I have found-with a few exceptions, such as yourself-are smug, self-satisfied and self-appointed "intellectuals" who have never bothered to actually examine the failures of the "same old" prescriptions they avow will work, if we just give them another chance. Doing the same thing, over and over, despite the fact that it fails every time, is one of the clinical definitions of insanity; it is well in evidence here. If most of the posters here have ever bothered to read anything but information sources that support only their own prejudices, it would simply stun me; they evidence no knowledge of anything but their own preconceptions, yet they are quite comfortable damning most of the populace for not agreeing with them, seeing them as "sheeple", as fit only for being ruled by their self-proclaimed "betters".

Yeah, right. They are nothing less than elitists, wallowing in the same mud and dung encrusted sty that elitists have always wallowed in; they are modern Marie Antoinettes, thinking that the masses are simply unaware of the fact that, when you are out of bread, why, you simply eat cake. Did it ever cross their minds that, since the governments of the past century, and every one of those in the present century, that have followed in the path they suggest has ended up in tyranny, terror, economic failure, and, in most cases, genocide? Have they never read history, beyond the bland and bowderlized pap that passes for such in our schools today? Are they so filed with hate for those who cannot understand their clinging to corrupt and failed policies that have ever been ineffectual in actually changing people's lives for the better, policies and doctrines that have always engendered more human misery than existed prior to their enactment, that they have to denounce them as their intellectual inferiors, and portray them as so ignorant that they don't even deserve the basic respect due to all humans?

It is a sad commentary on the state of alternative political thought that a site such as this, which portrays itself as being in opposition to the establishment, is in reality a slave to its tired, worn out ideologies, incapable of conceiving that real alternatives that would actually change society genuinely for the better may exist outside of their highly limited "received knowledge". That they assume the role of being oh-so-well informed, when in reality they convey nothing but ignorance and refusal to look at the hard realities facing all of us is not surprising; it is common among all of the doomed classes of the past, from the aristocracy in Europe, to the Chinese mandarins, to the Soviets of Russia-every one of them also proclaimed loudly their intellectual superiority to the masses; every one of them ended in that proverbial "trash-bin of history".

So will the people here, if they cling to the failed rhetoric, the failed politics, the failed crusades that they espouse. The people here are not ignorant; or so they proclaim. Yet they consistently fail to say anything new, to think anything new, and, as a favorite song of mine says "He not busy being born is busy dying."

No one here has even attempted to address my questions; I can think of only three reasons for that:
1. They don't think that it's worth their time.
2. They are incapable of doing so.
3. They are frightened to do so.

Maybe you, or someone else, can refute these three possibilities, but I frankly doubt it.

I wish you well; but if you really seek change, I'm quite certain that you'll not find any source for it here.

These people have so little intellectual capacity that they remind me of the story of the minnow who bragged of his ancestry from the great sharks-everyone knew he was lying, but no one would point it out, since that was all he had in the way of a claim to stature.

Swim on, all you minnows.