Think about this for a minute.

Sometimes I just can’t “grin and bear it” and I have to comment on injustice in the world. Some guy in line at the grocery store just used his EBT card for a pack of gum and asked for, and received, $100 cash back. Meanwhile, I’m working three jobs, living frugally, and paying higher taxes every year. I should not be forced to finance these worthless parasites or be told that it is a morally just system! Government entitlements are viciously immoral, not only for the victims forced to pay, but also for the huge segments of the population who receive this looted wealth, year after year, generation after generation. Think about this for a minute. Those who created the wealth are not allowed to use this part of it because they created it. Those who are said to be entitled to this wealth—wealth created by its producers—are entitled because they did not produce it. So, in order for its producers to be entitled to this portion of the wealth (wealth that wouldn’t otherwise exist and which they produced) they must stop producing. But then, who would produce the wealth? It is hard to imagine an idea more vicious, backwards or anti-human life.

Reading Notes

I just finished the chapter “This Will Kill That” in Notre-Dame de Paris. It is a fascinating telling of the history of the conveyances of knowledge and ideology. Hugo uses it as a tool to develop characterization and conflict to further his plot. He uses his knowledge of history and philosophy to create characters based on ideas. He is like a master teacher who recognizes an enormous context (events and ideas in history and philosophy) that the reader must first grasp, before the reader can grasp the the nature of his work (his character, plot and novel).

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Teaches Kids to be Good Little Followers

I am a fan of Disney and I think Walt Disney was an American pioneer.

However, Disney ‘s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse—the TV show and the show at Disney World—attempt to teach young children an awful lesson. It is propaganda seeking to indoctrinate, in children, that group participation is an important primary of thought and action in human life. The theme of both is that accomplishment is achieved only through group participation. Through the use of program’s scenarios, the writers teach children that problems can be solved only through group participation.

In truth, all knowledge is gained firsthand through the independent exercise of an individual mind. After an individual takes the action necessary to learn or discover knowledge, it then may be communicated to others, but the initial work is performed by the individual. Thinking is an act of solitude, not of community. A person who’s primary concern is inclusion in a group, is not a thinker. He is a mental parasite hoping for a group to relieve him of the real world necessity and responsibility of mental effort and courage needed to achieve independent thought and judgement.