April 11, 26 J.E.
I gotta say, as far as brains
go, mine is pretty darn adequate. I can work at mindless tasks, for all
appearances completely involved in whatever I’m doing. Deep inside the dark
recesses of my brain that has only seen the light of day once (and that was
messy), flywheels of free association are spinning out of control. Every once
in a while, enough stray thoughts lock into place to form a single coherent
picture. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I just have to write about
it.
My mind has been multi-tasking
on the common sense-defying enigma that is communism for weeks now, ever since
I went out with that bisexual communist chick. No, I didn’t get any—she was all
red (I KILL me!). Besides pointing out that it flies in the face of
human nature, the laws of economics, and is basically a watered down version of
Christian utopia, I have been struck with yet ANOTHER insight.
I have determined that Communism
and its sickly anemic brother, socialism, are modernizations of good
old-fashioned anti-Semitism.
“How the hell do you figure
that?” one of the heathens in the back exclaims.
It’s no secret that Jews have
been persecuted probably more than any ethnic or religious group in history,
subject to repeated pogroms, expulsions, and mass slaughter. Why is that? Sure,
they were a different religion and a different culture diluted amongst the xenophobic
peoples of Medieval Europe, and those were contributing factors.
The thing that set them apart
from the other peoples of Europe, though, was that they took education very
seriously and had a powerful work ethic. In an age when a good Christian was
not allowed to make a profit of any kind, Jews, the infidels, were the only
ones who had an incentive to go into business. As a result, they became relatively
wealthy. The peasants and nobles didn’t like it, and often decided to “redistribute
the wealth”. Even after the Protestant Reformation made it OK to make money, Jews
still had the cultural emphasis on education and did better. People still didn’t
like it, either.
“OK, fine,” says the dumbass in
the back, “but what’s that got to do with Communism?
The mentality of modern
Communists and old-time Jew haters is basically the same: take the wealth away
from those who actually EARNED it and give it to the slackers. The arguments
are the same, too. Jews and capitalists secretly conspire to run the world,
they profit by keeping others poor, and that they actively exploit the poor
helpless mediocretins.
The average person seems to have
an irrational resentment toward anyone who earns a fortune by the sweat of their
own back. Ironically, they didn’t seem to mind the nobles who killed them
regularly nearly as much as they hated the commoner who earned his wealth. I
suspect that they felt that since the nobility was practically a different race
of human, they figure they could never achieve that level of wealth, so they’re
OK with that. When one of their own gets some bucks, it points out what lazy
sots they are and that burns their little egos. If the rich person happens to
be different in any way, so much the better.
OK, that last paragraph is
largely conjecture that requires more research, but the central point remains
the same: Some people just HATE it when their peers do better than they do. An
illustrative modern scenario is the black business person who is victimized by his
fellow blacks just because he or she being successful. Of course this mentality
is not limited to blacks, but that example particularly annoys me. I think that
that adequately explains why a bunch of numbskulls would follow the misanthropic
teachings of the Champion of the Working Class who never held a job in his
entire friggin’ life.
So stick that in your sock and
smoke it, commies!