I was looking through our archives for mentions of the Frankfurt School, and Antonio Gramsci for my “Disney’s REALLY gone Woke” post, and this popped up from 2016. While not directly in line, it does approach in a similar fashion because it REQUIRES Government to carry out the action.
“Free Stuff” means slavery for someone else
I’ll just say it loud: some people just don’t deserve free stuff.
…Free stuff given out by politicians is a seriously bad idea – no skin in the game oft means “of no real value” to a lot of people; it engenders an entitlement mentality on behalf of the “recipient” which, in turns, engenders an envy for even more “free”.. After a bunch of decades on this mud ball, I am convinced that TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is real and anyone trying sell the idea that something, in this case college, can be free has an agenda that won’t be pleasant for someone else (and generally people like me that work hard for the money we earn).
But this is where we stand after the Frankfurt School and Gramsci’s philosophy has burnt our original meritocracy of individualism and personal freedom to being crispy critters; both of the Socialists running for Prez believe they have the right and claim to my stuff to simply give to someone else.
There is another name for this (and yes, I will go there): Slavery. It is one thing to fund a limited government but now, with decades of incrementalism by the Left, there is no such thing as limited government at either the State or Federal levels. Day by day, by Democrat and Republican, those Elites keep believing and acting on the idea that ONLY Government can do the good works they parrot. They have no trust in we individuals – only forced collectivism / communitarianism. When you work hard for something only to see it taken from you on the false premise of “equality”, you are seeing that their definition of equality really isn’t – it is “anti-freedom”. Anti-Freedom – a perfect description of Progressives in either Party.
As Erik Erikson has coined: “You will be made to care”; which translates to “No Freedom to say no”. So they will take your stuff…
And if I was writing the above today, I would have used the Left’s word “equity” and contrasted it with “equality.” To the former, it is simply just another euphemism, a more gentle way of saying, “everyone IS going to be the same and have the same stuff.” We will, as a matter of process, make you less better than you can be to make others be better because they can’t (or won’t) do for themselves.
(H/T: GraniteGrok)
