Things Fall Apart

The title for this post is actually the title of a book by Chinua Achebe, but it is also a great theory, that everything eventually falls apart.  Last night I had this wonderful --err-- awful epiphany that struck me and everything just fell into place.  I saw the country heading down this road of progressivism which will ultimately lead us to a backward, cro-Magnon society (pick your dystopia here: Ayn Rand's Anthem, Orwell's Oceania, etc.).  We will eventually do everything for the good of everyone else.  Perhaps we should just eliminate the pronoun 'I' from our vocabulary.  We will speak always with 'we' because everything we will do will not be for ourselves, but for the human rights of everyone else.

Speaking of "human rights," they are part of the great progressive jargon.  Human rights have been manipulated.  Not only are there too many of them, but they are replacing what the Founding Fathers would call self-evident truths.  But, since there cannot be truth in a progressive, and inherently relativistic culture, there are human rights.  Everyone is apparently entitled to a "liveable wage" and free speech, among other things.  But the list of human rights continues to grow, it is malleable, like the tide of culture and is therefore infinite, so eventually human existence will be worth nothing because everyone will be entitled to everything.  So then, what will be the purpose of human existence other than to serve the state, under the guise of serving other men?

I am not saying that people are not entitled to free speech, but the United States cannot be spreading its principles everywhere.  Moreover, it is hypocracy to pull out of one nation after having attempted to spread our principles, all the while saying that the world needs all these "human rights" but without spreading Republican values.  I harken back now to my favorite phrase in the Declaration of Independence: "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." In my epiphany I have seen that long train and perhaps it is not leading us to despotism in a traditional sense, but rather monarchy as a means of achieving American and global goals, as a means of suppressing and sacrificing the individual for the good of the whole.

It is not that I am advocating revolt --although, if Americans rose up tomorrow against our government in favor of the one I believe in, I would have no qualms about my own participation-- I am predicting revolt.  In fact, I can even predict the location: there will be a revolt in California over health care; in Massachusetts, there will be a tax revolt; finally, the nation will rise-up because the nation will be bankrupt and people will be angry either because money will be worthless or the hand that was once subsidized them will be no longer.

If you have an inkling that this is the course of our country, then you can see that the theory is true: things fall apart.  If we are to repair this country, forget a return to the Constitution or even the classics.  First, we must put faith in the individual, carve out the word 'EGO' in our souls and in our homes and trust that 'I' takes precedence over 'we.'