What have we given up by relying on the impulses of humanity to guide society?
11. Roger Scruton nails it:
"As God retreated from the world, people reached out for a rival source of membership, and national identity seemed to answer to the need. Although the French revolutionaries paid homage with their heads to the Citizen, the Constitution, and the Republic, their hearts were capture by the Nation,...defined in terms of a visceral membership that demanded one thing above all else- namely, human sacrifice."
Scruton, "The West and the Rest," p.43.
a. Saint Just (1794) more crudely said: “What constitutes a republic is the total destruction of everything opposed to it” (8 Ventôse).
Like an echo, Lenin repeats, “It would be the greatest stupidity and the most absurd utopia to suppose that the passage from capitalism to socialism would be possible without constraint and dictatorship” (May 28, 1917).
12. As one of his friends later recalled, "Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov (Lenin) had the courage to come out and say openly that famine would have numerous positive results...Famine, he explained....would bring about the next stage more rapidly, and usher in socialism, the stage that necessarily followed capitalism.
Famine would also destroy faith, not only in the tsar, but in God, too."
"The Black Book of Communism," p.123-124.
a. Reason as a guide? Here is one iteration of 'reason:'
"The present moment favors us....With the help of all those starving people who are starting to eat each other, who are dying by the millions, and whose bodies litter the roadside all over the country, it is now and only now, that we can-and therefore must- confiscate all church property with all the ruthless energy we can muster....Our only hope is the despair engendered in the masses by the famine, which will cause them to look at us in a favorable light or at the very least, with indifference." Lenin, March 19, 1922
Today, they say: "Never let a crisis go to waste."
If the guide for society is to be reason, or science, or some variation....anything but morality....the result is invariably death, slaughter, oppression, as human life has no value to those infused with the kind of ideology of the French Revolution, Mao's slaughter house, the communist revolution, the socialism of Cambodia, National Socialism, the absolute adherence to the doctrine of abortion, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, etc.
History's lessons on display for all to see.....yet liars and simpletons deny and ignore them.
So.....reason? Or morality?
Or is just too darn late to care.
