Dennis Prager Today

 I was in traffic today (3/22/22) when I heard a few minutes of Dennis Prager's Ultimate Issues Hour. He was brilliant and on fire.

He was talking about how the Founding Father knew overwhelmingly that slavery was wrong, but they did not give up their slaves. He said there is hope for those that did wrong, but know they are doing wrong or evil, and those, like the Southern Slave Owners that did evil and did not know even know they did evil as slave owners. For those that do evil, and do not even realize it, there is no or little hope for them, because they have lost their moral compass.

Dennis compares Leftists to the southern slave owners, evil people without hope, for they do evil and do not even realize it. They have lost their moral compass. 

My thought is that such ethical nihilists are true believers, and they worship their ism, and ideologues worshiping a word, a cause, an abstraction, are people that are devil-worshipers.

So, to take this analogy farther, the Founding Fathers that did evil, but knew they were out of line, can still face redemption and salvation, if they repent and change their ways. The still troubled sinner is more moderate than the militant sinner that is all in, and proud of his wicked conduct.

This does not allow the moderate sinner to get off the hook. They are to blame for their wickedness, and need to cease doing it, repent, reform, and give their lives over to God. 

Prager also noted how traditional Americans would note that God sayeth X, so we did X. Today the secular say if experts say X, we do X.

Dennis continued, insisting that most PhDs were fools, and I agree. Why are experts so brilliant in their specialized subject, and yet so unable and unfit to run society and manage our affairs as part of a huge, bloated government?

There are several reasons. First, let me note that they really believe that they are superior, smarter and better than the masses over which these elitists and bureaucrats rule or crave to control. Their blindness disallows them to make quick, good policy decisions and then redirect, and adjust if one is mistaken.

 Second, their fanatical solutions lack creativity, practicality, and adaptability.

Third, being part of big government disallows them to govern well with their command-and-control model.

Four, a well-run America requires few experts, little top-down supervision, limited government, and the business of America mostly should be business, and none of this is so when experts run things.

Fifth, most effective governing should be done at the state and local level with bottom-up control, not top-down management by experts, but that is not the modern statist framework.

Sixth, experts or professors tend to be group-creatures, moving in cliques, as factions and educational bureaucrats--all such creatures are ideological and fanatical, and that keeps them disconnected from reality, so there is no way for them to escape their worldview and generally make sense.

Seventh, if they have not been out in the world of business, they do not know how to do things, how to be practical, how to get things done by some commonsense hunch about applying Occam's razor to getting red tape out of the way to get things done well, cheap, fast, and right.

Eighth, experts are extremist in so many ways. Their share of social power, institutional power, academic power, economic and political power all take them out of the mainstream, so the ontological fact of being part of a ruling elite is inherently corrupting, and sickens the elite power-holders’ outlook. The poor and powerless suffer from this too: their extreme and immoderate share of power and abnormal rank makes them ontologically extremist, rendering them more susceptible to demonic temptation, which is largely passionate, fanatical and out of balance.

Ninth, humans are born psychological altruists and ascetical/self-denying/self-attacking persons of low self-esteem. To compensate for this ineradicable sense of inner-worthlessness (This may well be affiliated with Jordan Peterson's emphasis on personal vulnerability, that, if wrongly expressed turns the agent resentful, angry, bitter and then capable of extreme cruelty and wickedness, furious at being born, so all must pay.), that never can be completely overcome, people seek and lust after the power over neighbors, or to be a victim of a neighbor or neighbors. The power of powerless is very alluring and addictive as experts cannot get enough of this drug of illegitimately amassed power stolen from surrounding individuals, called by God to maverize, wielding her personal power of powerfulness, a engaged Unique and her Property. The expert can never glom onto enough power, rank, and adulation from his victims to surfeit his bottomless need to rule from above. There are masochistic and sadistic phases of corrupt power relations among experts and non-experts at various levels of a hierarchy, but this need to wield the unholy power of powerless over others will sully any human thinking they are personally exempted from being tainted by such power-wielding. None can escape being corrupted when engaging in power-games involving such ungodly power of hatred, hating and exported self-hatred.

The only solution--and this is not a permanent solution, for weak, cruel people can quickly return to group-living, sadomasochistic power enslavement rituals in various hierarchies--is for America to become  a society of individuating-anarchist supercitizens escaped from and defying those eager experts and elites so eager to jump into personal lives where they have no right to do, where they have no clue what is the way to proceed, and where they destroy everything and everyone they touch.

Decades ago, Eric Hoffer warned against allowing intellectuals and experts to have power. They make excellent advisors but cruel, soul-raping masters, serving every mass movement and totalitarian killer that the world has ever known.

These born-elitists always prey upon, attack, exploit, whip, oppress and mind-rape the people, and sincerely believe that that is their just role, and that they are doing the masses a favor, and that the common people deserve nothing better than top-down rule.