It is eminently provable: only the Right is actually allowed to think.
The other side must march, lock-step, they must leave ‘thinking’ to their experts, elites and bureaucrats.
I can prove this, with both historical and contemporary references.
1.Lets go back to early 19th century. Tocqueville pointed out that one side promises care from cradle to grave, as long as you do exactly as ordered.
Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Certainly an enticing deal…if one is ready to give up one’s God-given intellect.
2. During the 19th century, progressivism was born in academia, which posited that there is a sort of individual of a higher level, who would guide the great unwashed.
This is the idea of the ‘administrative state.’
" ... there’s a tendency among bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and other members of the New Class to convince the people to hand over the major decisions of their lives to the “experts.” These experts aren’t all in the government, but they all collude with government to convince people that the experts have all the answers and that the people need to hand the reins over to them. They will tell us what to eat, what to drive, what to think.
It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
It is the doctrine of the administrative state, one run by unelected experts, bureaucrats, technocrats who know what is best for everyone else. These ‘special’ individuals would never make choices designed for their own aggrandizement.
You buyin’ that?
You are if you’re a Progressive, a Liberal, a Democrat: thinking for yourself is out of the question.
The other side must march, lock-step, they must leave ‘thinking’ to their experts, elites and bureaucrats.
I can prove this, with both historical and contemporary references.
1.Lets go back to early 19th century. Tocqueville pointed out that one side promises care from cradle to grave, as long as you do exactly as ordered.
Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Certainly an enticing deal…if one is ready to give up one’s God-given intellect.
2. During the 19th century, progressivism was born in academia, which posited that there is a sort of individual of a higher level, who would guide the great unwashed.
This is the idea of the ‘administrative state.’
" ... there’s a tendency among bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and other members of the New Class to convince the people to hand over the major decisions of their lives to the “experts.” These experts aren’t all in the government, but they all collude with government to convince people that the experts have all the answers and that the people need to hand the reins over to them. They will tell us what to eat, what to drive, what to think.
It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
It is the doctrine of the administrative state, one run by unelected experts, bureaucrats, technocrats who know what is best for everyone else. These ‘special’ individuals would never make choices designed for their own aggrandizement.
You buyin’ that?
You are if you’re a Progressive, a Liberal, a Democrat: thinking for yourself is out of the question.