I briefly discussed the foolishness of the Bollywood "reel-life hero" Aamir Khan's "worthy dream" of universal State healthcare yesterday - and I will continue on the same theme today, in order to drive the point home.
First: The personnel of The State are as "self-interested" as any merchant in the market-place. Politicians and bureaucrats want nothing more than to maximise their budgets and their powers, or their "turf." Thus, they despise all libertarians - and they love anyone who will ask them to "do something about something." Aaamir Khan advocates State healthcare and medical education from The State as well - and they will never see this as any "threat" to them, their powers, their revenues, and their privileges. Ditto with Harsh Mander who clamours for "food rights": or Aruna Roy who is now calling for an "old age pension." If someone champions a State-funded "river-linking project" worth millions of crores - they will welcome it. Committees will be appointed, tours undertaken, funds allocated - to bureaucrats, of course - just to prepare a "preliminary report." Atal Behari Vajpayee's grand highway project under the NHAI is welcome - and it still isn't ready, in 20 years! - but if someone calls for private highways, private railways, private electricity, complete privatisation, complete deregulation - that is, LIBERTY! - these "political market" players will be extremely upset. So, Aaamir Khan is on THEIR side.
It is the same with Anna Hazare: The State will only GROW with his proposed Lokpal - another big building will be built in Nude Elly; it will be furnished and air-conditioned; bureaucrats will be appointed, and so on. So, Anna's is just a "phoney protest movement."
It is the same with Anna Hazare: The State will only GROW with his proposed Lokpal - another big building will be built in Nude Elly; it will be furnished and air-conditioned; bureaucrats will be appointed, and so on. So, Anna's is just a "phoney protest movement."
Aaamir Khan's welfarism is DOUBLY RIDICULOUS when this very same State practices ECONOMIC REPRESSION. Aamir is a "performing artist" who made it big - but 70,000 "bar dancers" and lakhs of musicians, bartenders, waiters, and bouncers lost their livelihoods in the very same city of Mumbai where he lives. What the FUCK? You kill livelihoods - and then you spend on welfare? Isn't it "phoney"? And, anyway, do they even have the money? - for this year's Budget has slated borrowings of some 6,50,000 crore rupees (1 crore is 10 million).
I discussed slums yesterday, anyway - the UNHEALTHY habitat in which the vast majority of urban Indians live. Amidst ABUNDANT VACANT LAND, that too.
Thus, environmentalists are all FRIENDS OF THE STATE as well. They love the Forest department. They want to ban the ordinary Edison bulb - which poor people can afford - and FORCE everyone to buy some fluorescent "energy saving" bulb - but they do not champion PRIVATE ELECTRICITY, which would REDUCE The State and enable all of us to enjoy regular power supplies. They call for a "clean and green environment" - which means legislation and empowered bureaucrats - while every city is full of slums and garbage as well: FILTHY! They love the keekar jungles around Delhi - useless bushes growing in useless "badlands." We have the most expensive timber in the world - and the forest cover is dwindling. Commercial forestry is opposed! Veerappan would have been a rich, legal, sandalwood farmer without such evil ideas - as I wrote when the cops murdered him. I cannot find the original article in The Indian Express - but there is this blog post on the subject, quoting me, that I found. It is noteworthy that all forest-dwellers throughout India are up in ARMED REVOLT. Unfortunately, their "ideology" is completely false - Maoism - but the method being employed by The Socialist State to deal with their uprising - guns! - is even worse. They simply cannot fight wrong collectivist ideas with their own wrong collectivist ideas!
Thus, environmentalists are all FRIENDS OF THE STATE as well. They love the Forest department. They want to ban the ordinary Edison bulb - which poor people can afford - and FORCE everyone to buy some fluorescent "energy saving" bulb - but they do not champion PRIVATE ELECTRICITY, which would REDUCE The State and enable all of us to enjoy regular power supplies. They call for a "clean and green environment" - which means legislation and empowered bureaucrats - while every city is full of slums and garbage as well: FILTHY! They love the keekar jungles around Delhi - useless bushes growing in useless "badlands." We have the most expensive timber in the world - and the forest cover is dwindling. Commercial forestry is opposed! Veerappan would have been a rich, legal, sandalwood farmer without such evil ideas - as I wrote when the cops murdered him. I cannot find the original article in The Indian Express - but there is this blog post on the subject, quoting me, that I found. It is noteworthy that all forest-dwellers throughout India are up in ARMED REVOLT. Unfortunately, their "ideology" is completely false - Maoism - but the method being employed by The Socialist State to deal with their uprising - guns! - is even worse. They simply cannot fight wrong collectivist ideas with their own wrong collectivist ideas!
Now, the fact is that The State has TWO HANDS - one that gives away, the gentle hand, and this is the hand that The State likes to put on display: we are giving you education, healthcare, food, pensions, and so on.
And then, there is the other hand, the ROUGH HAND - the tax collectors, the police danda, the customs department, excise, the thieving policy of deliberate inflationism, and so on - and this is the one they like to conceal.
So, anyone who advocates increasing the role of the State ultimately demands increasing taxes as well - which is why Manmohan's "free and compulsory education" also got us the "education tax."
Now, what is Utopia?
Since happiness is "subjective" - and everyone finds happiness in different things - Utopia is nothing but a "society of utopianism." That is, where each INDIVIDUAL can find his very own idea of Utopia. This requires Liberty. And Free International Trade as well. Then, the worker, and the peasant, also become kings - as consumers, and as proprietors of their private properties.
Property, Liberty, Happiness - this is the DREAM that can work for ALL: that is, all EXCEPT for the personnel of The State.
This phony welfarism is nothing but begging for handouts from a complete disgrace of a State, one that is BROKE as well, and completely DYSFUNCTIONAL.
So, of course, I will be HATED by the personnel of this fucked-up The State.
But then, I choose my enemies wisely.
There are 1200 million ordinary people in India, the vast majority of them poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I choose to be their good friend.
There are just some 2000 who rule.
Of course, this blog is LIVE ON PLANET EARTH!
That's 6 billion ordinary people versus 6000.
Wisdom - what?
There are 1200 million ordinary people in India, the vast majority of them poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I choose to be their good friend.
There are just some 2000 who rule.
Of course, this blog is LIVE ON PLANET EARTH!
That's 6 billion ordinary people versus 6000.
Wisdom - what?
