March 30, 26 J.E.
Since hanging out with the soon-to-graduate college friend of my brother, I’d had a number of things I had always suspected confirmed as true. Probably the biggest is that the only place Communism is alive and well is on college campuses, full of idealistic students who have yet to grasp how anything actually works and taught by professors who have never actually had real jobs. Hell, one of those morons with a doctorate in Marxism is even running for president. Thank God the only vote he’ll get is his own and those of a few ass-kissing students.
That got me thinking a lot about
Communism. I’d kind of want to debate a Communist sometime, but it would be a
bit impossible, seeing that they’ve created an entire fantasy world to live in,
therefore making any common points of reference impossible. After all, any
idiot can tell you that you can’t change human behavior by making laws, and
that it’s completely delusional to assume that eliminating property will
suddenly make everybody happy. They somehow think that everyone will happily do
all the shitty work just because it’s the right thing to do. It’s kind of like
trying to wrestle some common sense out of a religious fundamentalist.
Now that I think about it,
Communism and most religions have a hell of a lot in common. “What?” you say.
“How is that possible? They hate each other!” True. Communism is atheist by
definition, claiming that religion is the “opiate of the people”. Understandably threatened by this, Commies
are the archenemy of any religious group. Nevertheless, they are fundamentally
the same.
First, there is the obvious
connection with the fanatics of both ideologies. Those people cling desperately
to a hopelessly outmoded worldview because they are far too threatened by the
prospect of doing anything more challenging with their brains than staring and
drooling. Then there are the slightly more reasonable types, who adapt and
interpret their beliefs to fit into a fairly realistic worldview.
The REAL connection, though, is
that if people actually uniformly FOLLOWED these ideologies, the world would be
a happy place. Sure, if everyone just worked the best that they could and took
only what they needed, the world would be happy under Communism. Of course, if
people followed Christianity to the letter, constantly helping each other out
and treating their fellow man the best that they can, the world would be even
happier. Hell, under religions, you’ve even got an incentive to follow it,
since you go to hell if you don’t.
The real scary thing is that
someday, we may actually achieve the Marxist utopia through technology. If we
had machines to do all of our production and all of our shitty jobs, then
people wouldn’t have anything to do. Egad, what WOULD we do with our time?