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The Fruits of Arbitrary Power: or The Bloody Massacre (1770)
Massachusetts Historical Society Online Collection

"Not a lick of any of this was ever necessary for a second."

NextWorld seems primarily comprised of Unnecessity, absurdly arbitrary insistences. The war on common decency, where our better angels are vilified in favor of long-ago vanquished lesser ones. The absurd attacks of diversity initiatives, equity improvements, and respectful attempts to include everyone in opportunities. Nonsensical complaints about awareness, as if sleepwalking were preferable to acknowledging experience. The forced blindness of refusing to acknowledge genders. The never-existent yet still popular War On Christmas. The belligerent practice of primitive Christianity as if it represented the state religion. The insistence that, despite our Constitution, our sacred separation of church and state amounts to an abomination. Perhaps most of all, the cruel discrimination as if some citizens were naturally more American than others. The vilification of the weakest among us. The criminalization of everyday actions via presidential proclamations. Perhaps most of all, the presuppositions guiding these insanities. These notions go largely unquestioned, though nothing beyond innuendo was ever offered to justify or prove they were true.

The belief that all government spending has always been, by definition, wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive, and therefore, should be suspended. The suspension under such conditions becomes self-justifying, requiring no standard validations. No proof supports such assertions. They essentially go unquestioned. The very word Bureaucracy becomes a common obscenity, accompanied by knowing frowns and confirming nods. The bureaucrat, of course, gets viewed as a common thief burgling the public purse, and even the public purse becomes coercion. The purpose of government gets twisted into insignificance. Instead of common defense, its purpose becomes its eradication. The champions imagine a self-sufficiency never actually manifested, even in fantasy. Public servants are seen as private slaves, runaways from profitable enterprises, and the only genuine contributors to society. Privatize the lives of everyone dependent upon one another. The ultimate goal seems to have always been to divide and conquer.

The dividers complain the loudest about the division they encouraged. They invented the non-existent War On Christmas and the utterly delusional WOKE Virus. They declared reverse discrimination when they realized that immigrants performed much better on exams and in the workplace than their homeschooled kids could. Contrary to even the most cursory observation, they declared themselves the only real Americans. They created systems for continuously reinforcing these falsehoods. Those who never tuned in couldn't believe them. They had not been properly conditioned. They had never even heard of their Kool-Aid®, let alone drank any. Sanity was taken aback when the crazy showed up. It rightfully wondered where that had been hiding, festering, metastasizing. The adherents carried themselves as righteous as if the basis of their beliefs had always remained unquestioned. It seemed to most that they were crazy or, maybe, just too lazy to achieve reform the old-fashioned way: legally.

Again, the utter Unnecessity of their actions renders them especially galling. There was no need to lay off anybody. No, we were nowhere close to out-stripping our economic carrying capacity. Our debts and deficits remained eminently manageable and, overall, supported public good. Our economy was the envy of the world. Even our worst enemies marveled at our success. But then the ideologues entered Dodge. They didn't need to analyze what was already obvious to them. Firm belief generally trumps even expert analysis, anyway. Reducing the employees in every agency should collapse the whole operation which, because every expenditure was by definition wasteful, fraudulent, and abusive, should produce the greatest overall public good, which is to say it should leach every ounce of public goodness remaining in our society in favor of privacy … piracy. The purpose of our government in NextWorld must be to do away with itself: suicide. Not a lick of any of this was ever necessary for a second.

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