We have seen the total state in action already during the COVID lockdowns, where, through a variety of measures, the elderly population of virtually the entire developed world was culled.
“Obamacare” is neither about health nor care. It is ultimately about control, control pursuant to the devaluation and the elimination of human life. Here is the Vulcan mind-meld translation of the core premise of the Left: you have no right to live. By their lights, you are no more than a thing, or an animal, or a machine. Therefore, you have no right to the fruits of your labors. You are a ‘resource’ at best, a fungible, and ultimately disposable asset of the State. Or you are in their way and must be eliminated. There are the last 200 years of leftist philosophy and its practical consequences in a nutshell.
The progressive refusal to acknowledge the value of individual human life over an evanescent conflation of group rights and collectivist ideology is one of the principal reasons why no peace, no accommodation, no compromise can ever be made with them. Theirs is a reckless, willful and fundamentally evil disregard for the most fundamental of all of our rights: the individual’s right to live.
This premise is, has been, and continues to be central to the justification for the wholesale slaughter of millions of human beings – and the enslavement and impoverishment of hundreds of millions more. Many of these ideas are on display in the details of Obamacare, for example. At its core, Obamacare represents the deliberate and willful devaluation of human life – the reduction of people to mere objects. That is the next step on the way to physician-assisted suicide and, if it is not stopped, government-mandated euthanasia.
And worse. Far worse. But that’s precisely the intent of the so-called Obamacare legislation. Why else would modernity’s Left seek to ‘move the goalposts’ that define life? And further, to define the value of individual life by its utility? “Utility” – to whom or for what? Take careful note of the nature of the discussion and the debate over Obamacare: it has moved from questioning whether any sane human being should be allowed to make such decisions to dithering over who will get to decide.
So the question now becomes: what sort of society, what sort of existence will we have when –
The goalposts defining the beginning and the end of life at last converge?
The decision as to who lives and who dies eventually passes from individuals and to the state – as it most surely will if so-called “progressives” are allowed to have their way?
The answer is the stuff of your worst nightmares. If that seems a tad, well, extreme to some of you, consider this: there are those who believe that Dr. Emanuel deserves a medal for his fearless and enlightened rationality. If you thought that Dr. Singer’s prescription for infanticide without guilt has been met with universal outrage, you would again be wrong, as his ideas are warmly applauded in the halls of academe. Far from being an exercise in ivory-tower utopian fantasy, the ideas advocated by the likes of Peter Singer, specifically the ‘progressive‘ regard for human life have been given currency in the Journal of Medical Ethics, a peer reviewed journal for health professionals and researchers in medical ethics. There, a recently published article by two Australian philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesa Minerva, poses the question: After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live? Why, indeed? Again, ask yourselves this: how did we get from whether those decisions should be made to who will be making those decisions?
Make no mistake about it – these ideas have consequences: they pave the road to a nightmare world of slaughter and atrocity – and if you don’t think so, then you simply haven’t been paying attention to the history of the last 200 years. Progressives, and more importantly, those whom they serve are on the verge of achieving their sick utopian dreams. The nudge, the gradual squeeze – and then the shove into submission, slavery and the oblivion of the mass grave. Mass murder as the pinnacle of the exercise of the will to power.
This is the foundation and the prerequisite for the sort of world that Orwell envisioned in his 1984, a world in which neither love, nor mercy, nor hope survive. It is a world where all of your hopes, aspirations and dreams, where all of your love of country and family count for nothing, for those hopes and aspirations – and you – will be extinguished as if you never had existed. Because you surely must be eliminated if these will-to-power driven monsters are to rule without fear of opposition. One of the chief instruments to achieving their ambitions has and continues to be the substitution of a culture of death for the culture of life that lies at the heart of the values that uphold Western civilization.
As Victor Davis Hanson so eloquently put it –
"What I am getting at here is that there is a malicious and sinister objective within the heart of the Left. It craves totalitarianism, because totalitarianism will suffocate freedom and, ultimately, human life itself – which the Left hates the most."
Pope John Paul II in his 1995 work, The Gospel of Life made this observation regarding the rise of the culture of death in modern times:
This reality is characterized by the emergence of a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable “culture of death”. This culture is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency. Looking at the situation from this point of view, it is possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak: a life which would require greater acceptance, love and care is considered useless, or held to be an intolerable burden, and is therefore rejected in one way or another. A person who, because of illness, handicap or, more simply, just by existing, compromises the well-being or life-style of those who are more favored tends to be looked upon as an enemy to be resisted or eliminated. In this way a kind of “conspiracy against life” is unleashed. This conspiracy involves not only individuals in their personal, family or group relationships, but goes far beyond, to the point of damaging and distorting, at the international level, relations between peoples and States.
You surely don’t have to be Catholic to understand the truth of what JP II has said. The believer and the unbeliever alike can clearly see where this leads. There is only one way that the monsters who seek to impose such a hellish existence on this world can be stopped. Only one way.
Truly sorry to hear about your wife, Auron. Someone very close to me had cancer as well. I cherish every day I have with her. Another great article. You are one of the best writers on cultural and political issues. God bless you.
Canada is utterly atrocious under the Trudeau regime and likely to fail because of it.
You may not know, but the separatist movement in Quebec is gaining momentum under the leadership of Paul St Pierre Plomundon. Soon Canada will face another referendum and if Quebec separates the country is finished.
You see Canada with a population of 40 million people has been letting in over 2 million people per year under Trudeau. These now ten million foreigners are flowing across provincial borders in pursuit of employment and opportunity. Who could blame them!
They now are beginning to swap out the Québécois in Quebec.
For the Québécois remaining in Canada is - thanks to Trudeau and mass (insane) immigration - seen as threat to their Québécois culture. Paul St Pierre Plumondon is making this very pitch every day and it’s obvious to everyone with eyes to see that he is correct.
Canada will have another referendum by 2030 and leave will win.
Once again, just as our author has argued, mass immigration is going to backfire on the managerial regime.
I am reminded of that Twilight Zone where aliens give humans an untranslated book while peacably taking them away in their spaceships, only to find at the end that what was given was a cook book.
Liberalism is man's recipe book to consume itself.
Between the Drug companies and Food Companies, and ever increasing sick population… shorten the life span and the quality of life. It makes your fighting forces weak, you a primed for conquest. ONE health from the UN is terrifying in this matter…
We have seen the total state in action already during the COVID lockdowns, where, through a variety of measures, the elderly population of virtually the entire developed world was culled.
Eugenics
I had no idea about your wife. I'll say a prayer for her.
The Truth About Obamacare
Ward Dorrity - 2012
“Obamacare” is neither about health nor care. It is ultimately about control, control pursuant to the devaluation and the elimination of human life. Here is the Vulcan mind-meld translation of the core premise of the Left: you have no right to live. By their lights, you are no more than a thing, or an animal, or a machine. Therefore, you have no right to the fruits of your labors. You are a ‘resource’ at best, a fungible, and ultimately disposable asset of the State. Or you are in their way and must be eliminated. There are the last 200 years of leftist philosophy and its practical consequences in a nutshell.
The progressive refusal to acknowledge the value of individual human life over an evanescent conflation of group rights and collectivist ideology is one of the principal reasons why no peace, no accommodation, no compromise can ever be made with them. Theirs is a reckless, willful and fundamentally evil disregard for the most fundamental of all of our rights: the individual’s right to live.
This premise is, has been, and continues to be central to the justification for the wholesale slaughter of millions of human beings – and the enslavement and impoverishment of hundreds of millions more. Many of these ideas are on display in the details of Obamacare, for example. At its core, Obamacare represents the deliberate and willful devaluation of human life – the reduction of people to mere objects. That is the next step on the way to physician-assisted suicide and, if it is not stopped, government-mandated euthanasia.
And worse. Far worse. But that’s precisely the intent of the so-called Obamacare legislation. Why else would modernity’s Left seek to ‘move the goalposts’ that define life? And further, to define the value of individual life by its utility? “Utility” – to whom or for what? Take careful note of the nature of the discussion and the debate over Obamacare: it has moved from questioning whether any sane human being should be allowed to make such decisions to dithering over who will get to decide.
So the question now becomes: what sort of society, what sort of existence will we have when –
The goalposts defining the beginning and the end of life at last converge?
The decision as to who lives and who dies eventually passes from individuals and to the state – as it most surely will if so-called “progressives” are allowed to have their way?
The answer is the stuff of your worst nightmares. If that seems a tad, well, extreme to some of you, consider this: there are those who believe that Dr. Emanuel deserves a medal for his fearless and enlightened rationality. If you thought that Dr. Singer’s prescription for infanticide without guilt has been met with universal outrage, you would again be wrong, as his ideas are warmly applauded in the halls of academe. Far from being an exercise in ivory-tower utopian fantasy, the ideas advocated by the likes of Peter Singer, specifically the ‘progressive‘ regard for human life have been given currency in the Journal of Medical Ethics, a peer reviewed journal for health professionals and researchers in medical ethics. There, a recently published article by two Australian philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesa Minerva, poses the question: After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live? Why, indeed? Again, ask yourselves this: how did we get from whether those decisions should be made to who will be making those decisions?
Make no mistake about it – these ideas have consequences: they pave the road to a nightmare world of slaughter and atrocity – and if you don’t think so, then you simply haven’t been paying attention to the history of the last 200 years. Progressives, and more importantly, those whom they serve are on the verge of achieving their sick utopian dreams. The nudge, the gradual squeeze – and then the shove into submission, slavery and the oblivion of the mass grave. Mass murder as the pinnacle of the exercise of the will to power.
This is the foundation and the prerequisite for the sort of world that Orwell envisioned in his 1984, a world in which neither love, nor mercy, nor hope survive. It is a world where all of your hopes, aspirations and dreams, where all of your love of country and family count for nothing, for those hopes and aspirations – and you – will be extinguished as if you never had existed. Because you surely must be eliminated if these will-to-power driven monsters are to rule without fear of opposition. One of the chief instruments to achieving their ambitions has and continues to be the substitution of a culture of death for the culture of life that lies at the heart of the values that uphold Western civilization.
As Victor Davis Hanson so eloquently put it –
"What I am getting at here is that there is a malicious and sinister objective within the heart of the Left. It craves totalitarianism, because totalitarianism will suffocate freedom and, ultimately, human life itself – which the Left hates the most."
Pope John Paul II in his 1995 work, The Gospel of Life made this observation regarding the rise of the culture of death in modern times:
This reality is characterized by the emergence of a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable “culture of death”. This culture is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency. Looking at the situation from this point of view, it is possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak: a life which would require greater acceptance, love and care is considered useless, or held to be an intolerable burden, and is therefore rejected in one way or another. A person who, because of illness, handicap or, more simply, just by existing, compromises the well-being or life-style of those who are more favored tends to be looked upon as an enemy to be resisted or eliminated. In this way a kind of “conspiracy against life” is unleashed. This conspiracy involves not only individuals in their personal, family or group relationships, but goes far beyond, to the point of damaging and distorting, at the international level, relations between peoples and States.
You surely don’t have to be Catholic to understand the truth of what JP II has said. The believer and the unbeliever alike can clearly see where this leads. There is only one way that the monsters who seek to impose such a hellish existence on this world can be stopped. Only one way.
Sometimes I worry I might over-exaggerate the evil of the left out of emotion . Then I read the news.
Truly sorry to hear about your wife, Auron. Someone very close to me had cancer as well. I cherish every day I have with her. Another great article. You are one of the best writers on cultural and political issues. God bless you.
Canada is utterly atrocious under the Trudeau regime and likely to fail because of it.
You may not know, but the separatist movement in Quebec is gaining momentum under the leadership of Paul St Pierre Plomundon. Soon Canada will face another referendum and if Quebec separates the country is finished.
You see Canada with a population of 40 million people has been letting in over 2 million people per year under Trudeau. These now ten million foreigners are flowing across provincial borders in pursuit of employment and opportunity. Who could blame them!
They now are beginning to swap out the Québécois in Quebec.
For the Québécois remaining in Canada is - thanks to Trudeau and mass (insane) immigration - seen as threat to their Québécois culture. Paul St Pierre Plumondon is making this very pitch every day and it’s obvious to everyone with eyes to see that he is correct.
Canada will have another referendum by 2030 and leave will win.
Once again, just as our author has argued, mass immigration is going to backfire on the managerial regime.
Canada is toast.
Canada is deep into managerialism and sadly most do not understand the problem.
I am reminded of that Twilight Zone where aliens give humans an untranslated book while peacably taking them away in their spaceships, only to find at the end that what was given was a cook book.
Liberalism is man's recipe book to consume itself.
Given by demons, needless to say...
Between the Drug companies and Food Companies, and ever increasing sick population… shorten the life span and the quality of life. It makes your fighting forces weak, you a primed for conquest. ONE health from the UN is terrifying in this matter…