USA: Yes, Olympus has fallen

Robert Holliday recently delivered a meaningful lament, warning readers of an apparently widening gulf between the American people and moral rectitude.

Holliday notes some contempt for the values heralded by the “No Kings” demonstrators. Certainly, it’s clear to any rational person that these demonstrators are dangerous idiots who espouse and advertise corrupted and insane trends in cultural debasement. Trouble is, the apparent counterweight to these dopey demonstrators is an equally dangerous clutch of jingoistic, war-mongering adventurists.

This is the binary choice that both “sides” want you to believe exists. It is an exceptionally profound deception.

These groups both espouse the use of force against individuals — for them, whether it be donning a farcical COVID mask or supporting threats of civilizational destruction, force is the preferred operating mechanism. Be it a “war” on poverty, drugs, a virus, or Iran, war is the preferred phrasing precisely because force is the preferred tool. This is not a rhetorical flourish; it is an alarmingly successful way of framing issues in singularly brutal terms such that a moral people will accept the immoral.

People wishing for moral rectitude should long for the elimination of force as a method to persuade. Good, moral ideas do not require force; they require only voluntary consent — the inalienable rights Holliday cites. Refusing to pick a “side” and refusing to participate in our absurd scheme of “democracy” is the clearest directive for moral people.

In closing, a quote from Murray Rothbard, “It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.” Beware.

E. F. FRAZIER

Worley