"The Forgotten Man"

 

By William Graham Sumner.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. 

The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man. 

For once let us look him up and consider his case, for the characteristic of all social doctors is, that they fix their minds on some man or group of men whose case appeals to the sympathies and the imagination, and they plan remedies addressed to the particular trouble; they do not understand that all the parts of society hold together, and that forces which are set in action act and react throughout the whole organism, until an equilibrium is produced by a re-adjustment of all interests and rights. They therefore ignore entirely the source from which they must draw all the energy which they employ in their remedies, and they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and, forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight the first fact to be remembered in all social discussion - that the State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.

The friends of humanity start out with certain benevolent feelings toward "the poor," "the weak," "the laborers," and others of whom they make pets. 

They generalize these classes, and render them impersonal, and so constitute the classes into social pets. They turn to other classes and appeal to sympathy and generosity, and to all the other noble sentiments of the human heart. Action in the line proposed consists in a transfer of capital from the better off to the worse off.

 Capital, however, as we have seen, is the force by which civilization is maintained and carried on. The same piece of capital cannot be used in two ways. Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but if it was put into reproductive use, it would have to be granted in wages to an efficient and productive laborer. Hence the real sufferer by that kind of benevolence which consists in an expenditure of capital to protect the good-for-nothing is the industrious laborer. 

The latter, however, is never thought of in this connection. It is assumed that he is provided for and out of the account. Such a notion only shows how little true notions of political economy have as yet become popularized. There is an almost invincible prejudice that a man who gives a dollar to a beggar is generous and kind-hearted, but that a man who refuses the beggar and puts the dollar in a savings bank is stingy and mean. The former is putting capital where it is very sure to be wasted, and where it will be a kind of seed for a long succession of future dollars, which must be wasted to ward off a greater strain on the sympathies than would have been occasioned by a refusal in the first place. Inasmuch as the dollar might have been turned into capital and given to a laborer who, while earning it, would have reproduced it, it must be regarded as taken from the latter. 

When a millionaire gives a dollar to a beggar the gain of utility to the beggar is enormous, and the loss of utility to the millionaire is insignificant. Generally the discussion is allowed to rest there. But if the millionaire makes capital of the dollar, it must go upon the labor market, as a demand for productive services. Hence there is another party in interest - the person who supplies productive services. There always are two parties. The second one is always the Forgotten Man, and any one who wants to truly understand the matter in question must go and search for the Forgotten Man. 

He will be found to be worthy, industrious, independent, and self-supporting. He is not, technically, "poor" or "weak"; he minds his own business, and makes no complaint. Consequently the philanthropists never think of him, and trample on him.

We hear a great deal of schemes for "improving the condition of the working-man." In the United States the farther down we go in the grade of labor, the greater is the advantage which the laborer has over the higher classes. A hod-carrier or digger here can, by one day's labor, command many times more days' labor of a carpenter, surveyor, book-keeper, or doctor than an unskilled laborer in Europe could command by one day's labor. The same is true, in a less degree, of the carpenter, as compared with the book-keeper, surveyor, and doctor. This is why the United States is the great country for the unskilled laborer. The economic conditions all favor that class. 

There is a great continent to be subdued, and there is a fertile soil available to labor, with scarcely any need of capital. Hence the people who have the strong arms have what is most needed, and, if it were not for social consideration, higher education would not pay. Such being the case, the working-man needs no improvement in his condition except to be freed from the parasites who are living on him. 

All schemes for patronizing "the working classes" savor of condescension. They are impertinent and out of place in this free democracy. There is not, in fact, any such state of things or any such relation as would make projects of this kind appropriate. Such projects demoralize both parties, flattering the vanity of one and undermining the self-respect of the other.

For our present purpose it is most important to notice that if we lift any man up we must have a fulcrum, or point of reaction. In society that means that to lift one man up we push another down. The schemes for improving the condition of the working classes interfere in the competition of workmen with each other. The beneficiaries are selected by favoritism, and are apt to be those who have recommended themselves to the friends of humanity by language or conduct which does not betoken independence and energy. Those who suffer a corresponding depression by the interference are the independent and self-reliant, who once more are forgotten or passed over; and the friends of humanity once more appear, in their zeal to help somebody, to be trampling on those who are trying to help themselves.

Trades-unions adopt various devices for raising wages, and those who give their time to philanthropy are interested in these devices, and wish them success. They fix their minds entirely on the workmen for the time being in the trade, and do not take note of any other workmen as interested in the matter. It is supposed that the fight is between the workmen and their employers, and it is believed that one can give sympathy in that contest to the workmen without feeling responsibility for anything farther. It is soon seen, however, that the employer adds the trades-union and strike risk to the other risks of his business, and settles down to it philosophically. 

If, now, we go farther, we see that he takes it philosophically because he has passed the loss along on the public. It then appears that the public wealth has been diminished, and that the danger of a trade war, like the danger of a revolution, is a constant reduction of the well-being of all. So far, however, we have seen only things which could lower wages - nothing which could raise them. The employer is worried, but that does not raise wages. The public loses, but the loss goes to cover extra risk, and that does not raise wages.

A trades-union raises wages by restricting the number of apprentices who may be taken into the trade. This device acts directly on the supply of laborers, and that produces effects on wages. If, however, the number of apprentices is limited, some are kept out who want to get in. Those who are in have, therefore, made a monopoly, and constituted themselves a privileged class on a basis exactly analogous to that of the old privileged aristocracies. 

But whatever is gained by this arrangement for those who are in is won at a greater loss to those who are kept out. Hence it is not upon the masters nor upon the public that trades-unions exert the pressure by which they raise wages; it is upon other persons of the labor class who want to get into the trades, but, not being able to do so, are pushed down into the unskilled labor class. 

These persons, however, are passed by entirely without notice in all the discussions about trades-unions. They are the Forgotten Men. But, since they want to get into the trade and win their living in it, it is fair to suppose that they are fit for it, would succeed at it, would do well for themselves and society in it; that is to say, that, of all persons interested or concerned, they most deserve our sympathy and attention.

The cases already mentioned involve no legislation. Society, however, maintains police, sheriffs, and various institutions, the object of which is to protect people against themselves - that is, against their own vices. 

Almost all legislative effort to prevent vice is really protective of vice, because all such legislation saves the vicious man from the penalty of his vice. Nature's remedies against vice are terrible. She removes the victims without pity. A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set up on him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. 

Gambling and other less mention-able vices carry their own penalties with them.

Now, we never can annihilate a penalty. We can only divert it from the head of the man who has incurred it to the heads of others who have not incurred it. A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. 

The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. 

Who are the others? 

When we see a drunkard in the gutter we pity him. If a policeman picks him up, we say that society has interfered to save him from perishing. "Society" is a fine word, and it saves us the trouble of thinking. The industrious and sober workman, who is mulcted of a percentage of his day's wages to pay the policeman, is the one who bears the penalty. But he is the Forgotten Man. He passes by and is never noticed, because he has behaved himself, fulfilled his contracts, and asked for nothing.

The fallacy of all prohibitory, sumptuous, and moral legislation is the same. A and B determine to be teetotalers, which is often a wise determination, and sometimes a necessary one. If A and B are moved by considerations which seem to them good, that is enough. But A and B put their heads together to get a law passed which shall force C to be a teetotaler for the sake of D, who is in danger of drinking too much. 

There is no pressure on A and B. They are having their own way, and they like it. There is rarely any pressure on D. He does not like it, and evades it. 

The pressure all comes on C. The question then arises, Who is C? He is the man who wants alcoholic liquors for any honest purpose whatsoever, who would use his liberty without abusing it, who would occasion no public question, and trouble nobody at all. He is the Forgotten Man again, and as soon as he is drawn from his obscurity we see that he is just what each one of us ought to be.

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NOTES:

¹ William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was a Professor of Political Economy and of Sociology at Yale. In the book in which I found this essay (Macmillan, 1916), the editors -- English Professors Berdan, Schultz and Joyce of Yale -- wrote a short introductory paragraph, as follows: "This brilliant essay by Professor Sumner illustrates the effective use of the deductive structure. In two paragraphs defining who is the Forgotten Man, the general principle is stated so fully that the reader unconsciously accepts it. But once the reader has accepted this principle, it is applied to the consideration of trades unions and temperance legislation, with startling results. The essay, then, consists in the statement of a general principle, followed by two illustrations. Just as the form resolves itself into a simple arrangement, so the style is simple. There is no attempt at rhetorical exaggeration, no appeal to the emotions. It does read, and it is intended to read, as an ordinary exercise of the logical faculty. This mathematical effect is gained by the device of using the A and B that are associated in the mind with school problems, And the brilliance of the essay lies in the apparent inevitability with which the author reaches conclusions widely differing from conventional views. Since the importance of the essay lies exactly in these applications, actually the structure approaches the deductive type.

I am at a Loss...

I am at a loss!  What do I have to say? Quit playing politics and look at what’s going on. You, happily grazing cattle are being led by utopia loving, intellectually lazy, power grubbing fools into the hands of Satan.

Where are the Christians? Where are you now? Did you not found your country on the divine providence of God?  On Jesus Christ, and his Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob..? Is this not so? Why do you dishonor God so, when He led you dirt farmers and built you up into a great nation; a beacon to the world, and where are you now?

Your father’s father, the ones who fought in the Great War to rescue the God’s chosen people, (did not at the time know what they were doing… but at the divine direction of God, were God’s people rescued. By the Lamb of God, they were rescued. And thus, God settled them back in the homeland, as God said He would do), did not put up with the Nazis, they stomped them into the dirt, as evil should be stomped into the dirt. Where is that spirit among you today? Where are your leaders? Is everything for sale? If everything is for sale, where is the treasure?   

When was the last audit of Fort Knox.? Hummm??? Do you even know?

Does not the geological record witness to the judgment of Noah’s day? Does not the fossil record witness to the giants and the great dragons in the days of yore? Have you not found Jericho and David’s Palace? Have you not found the Red Sea crossing? Does not the skies declare the Glory of God; are there not signs of the appointed times written there? Can you even see the sky?

There is a blood moon on the rise and the clock is ticking. The time of the gentiles is over.  If you were smart… You would not abandon God’s chosen people.

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah? Were there no just men to be found? None? Have you not, in your studies, found the ashes? Lot flee! Least ye be caught up in the judgment. But you grazing cattle will be told to remain quiet, by your master, and ye of little faith, will remain quiet…

George Henry Nichols 

Women A Lost Identity

Women; A lost identity…

Our women, you gals out there, have been lied to. No if’s, No and’s and No but’s.

In 1920 women won the vote.

With the help and encouragement of the Republican Party, in the late fifties and early sixties, the blacks became a voting force. What happened? The Democratic Party moved in, bought them off and turned them into a voting block.  Now, doesn't that kind of sum up the battle?

I reiterate, in 1920 Women won the Vote. Not the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party, Women. Who voted to give them the vote??? Hummm…??? Men… It was all men. Men who represented the men who ran this country. And who was it did this??? Women… Real, honest to God, women…  

Now don’t you think somebody would have moved in and tried to make you a voting block? But women have a sixth sense, and they can spot a scoundrel.

Then came the feminist, and instead of trying to buy you, they said ‘We will Empower you.’ And they did, by turning you into men, thus stripping you of all your power as a woman, (Including your sixth sense, which they told you was a myth).  The power that won women the vote…

Girls, girls everywhere; but too many men and not enough women.

You can’t change nature… But screw with it enough, and you’re extinct.

America, we need our women back, you are our reason and inspiration. You are why we want to be prosperous, you are why we are willing to fight, and in you we find our earthly motivation to be free.

Remember, it was woman who won the vote…

May God Bless you All…

George Henry Nichols

What is Liberty?

Liberty? Someone tweeted what is liberty? If you read my blog, than you know I’ve said, girls = liberty. And that’s true. 

Liberty. What is liberty? Have we forgotten what liberty is? 

God is liberty. That simple. 

Don’t let anyone tell you this is not a Christian Nation, the philosophy of the Christian Tradition, which is rooted in the Jewish tradition, leads to liberty. Why? Because the truth works. 

There are three basic motivating factors, food, sleep and sex. Keep that in mind, very important. Now, consider all the wild animal shows you watch on big brother, and how vicious the wild world is. It’s tough to make a living, it just is. It’s kill or be killed. It run for you life, till you can’t run no more, then somebody eats you. That’s the way it is. The laws of evolution (?), it’s the way it works. Those animals are at liberty. Get it. 

Now, man is by nature a social creature, so he is going to be drawn together in groups. Groups, or on his own, has to provide for food sleep and sex. This isn’t easy in a wild world, with all the fussing and fighting and regardless, the stronger would prevail. That’s the laws of evolution (?), that’s the way they work. That’s liberty. 

Now God set us on a path contrary to the law of evolution and gave us a set of rules, which if obeyed, provides for food, sleep and sex. In other words, a man is at liberty to do as he chooses, because he will choose goodness, over himself. Not always an easy thing to do, but when practiced, leads to liberty and prosperity. Quite a different picture from the liberty of the wild kingdom. Either way you’re free, what’s it going to be? Consider these rules…..     

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shall have no other gods before me. 

By revealing himself to us as the one true God, we are by default empowered, which in turn brings peace of mind. Empowered because we understand that we answer to no one except God; therefore you cannot enslave me because I belong to the one true God, and I cannot serve his greater Glory if I am enslaved. Nor shall I be molested or led astray because God has shone me the way, and no other, regardless of rank can change that which God has put in place, thus God gives me rank over the wicked. If I can adhere to this teaching, I am granted purpose and meaning in my life, to seek and serve him who has created me and has revealed himself to me. And with these things in place, I can’t help but have peace of mind, for what else can matter? I am given authority to be alive, to protect myself and be my own person.   

You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth: you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation, but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments. 

This one is tuff, and can be confusing if not approached properly. First of all it has nothing to do with figurines, statues, stain class windows or any of these things, and if you follow me, I’ll show you why. First let us take at look at these things, statues, figurines, paintings, stain glass. The ability to create such things is a great talent, with a compulsive desire to create. We can only assume this talent is a gift from God. So the question arises, why would God give to man a compulsive desire to create such things? Well, one reason the Church offers up is: this ability is a form of language, to communicate things that otherwise would not be communicated. Art is a language, no different than music, math and linguistics. While linguistics tends to be confined to a particular culture or peoples, art and music tend to be universal. Artwork was used extensively by the early Church to communicate the life of Christ to people whose language was different from those teaching. It was also used to tell the gospels stories among people who couldn’t read. This commandment played a big part in forming the way the Hebrews looked at and responded to the world around them. God didn’t say you couldn’t have a figurine, he said you (sin is personal) could not make it an idol, which is an abstract idea, thus introducing the Jews to the abstract, the beginning of creative and critical thinking. But in a larger sense, when the world became an overwhelming experience, because of rising water in a flood, a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, a tornado, a large meteor from the sky, what ever was to come along, the Jews could be sure it wasn’t God, it was part of God’s creation, but God was bigger and beyond whatever it was. (Geneses 1.1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth). With this idea in place, it can be concluded that all things belong to God, and therefore unfold according to God’s plan, a single plan, one God. Without the fear of false gods or idols to hinder you, or limit your thinking: this plan could be understood with a study of the truth, thus the birth of the modern idea of science. Plainly said, it simply forces us to think big! 

You shall not take the name of your Lord thy God in vain.

Just what does this mean, vain: 1. without real significance, value or importance. In other words, without knowing you said it, where there is no thought of God. When I was seven, my father bought me a BB gun and gave it to me with a few rules. One of these rules were “you can’t shoot song birds, if I catch you shooting song birds, it’s your ass.” Well I learned one bird from another because when my Dad said it’s your ass, I knew what he meant, and I knew he meant it! At the time I thought Dad liked songbirds, but I’m a grown man now and my Dad is dead. He didn’t give a damn about a song bird, I know that now, he wanted to make sure that I always knew what was in my sights before I pulled the trigger. In the same way God, by denying us the use of his name without cause, which he finds offensive, has demanded we be present to who we are, what we say and what we do. That we be actors in this life and not spectators. That we be true to thy own self.   

Now lets develop this Idea a little, this means you are created in such a way, as to be present, anytime you’re conscience, if you choose to be. This is a very important concept here, because it brings into play the idea of the will.  What is the will? The will is the conscience’s power over the body. The conscience is confirmed because it can choose contrary to the way it feels. Thus the will exists because the conscience exists.  Now consider this for a moment, look at the world of mammals, or animals, no were among them do you fine one that can choose contrary to the way it feels. It’s how they work, it is what makes them work and respond to the world around it. They are hard wired. If you want to change an animal’s behavior, you change the way he feels. Yet, among human beings alone is behavior observed contrary to the way the creature feels, and indeed, encourages their young to act contrary to the way they feel. Thus, this is the witness to the will, which in turn is wittiness to the conscience. Now this is very basic, and very simple, you have to consider it for yourself.  Now you might say, well?  All the commandments, cause you to know what you are doing, to be present, yes I agree, but!  The second commandment addresses this idea at the very level of the being, the place in the mind were who and what you are manifest itself into language, where it can be spoken, are not. This is where the human being exists, where the gray mass comes forth into language in such away it can be understood by the conscience, and the conscience of others, if spoken. This is the very core of your being, and the second commandment demands you be present, at the guard at all times.  Liberty  

 Remember to keep holy the Sabbath. 

God wants a relationship, with you. Once a week you’re invited into his house. Not you neighbor, not the holy people in the front row, you. These laws are personal, like your relationship with God, personal. Ya have a whole day, once a week to think about God. How do you think about God? Well you can go to Church, and I recommend it. But consider during the day, if God created everything as we see, hear, smell, taste and touch it. Then you have to admit, God’s quite an artist. And how do you know an artist, you study his work, look at it with awe and marvel, and be grateful you got to see such a thing as this, and spend the day with him. The amount of time this created to contemplate larger things, leads to larger things. Growth in oneself. Liberty  

Honor Thy father and thy mother, that your days maybe long upon the earth.

(If you notice, the gift is attached, “that your days maybe long upon the earth.”)  I also look at this and see the foundations of the Patriarch and the Matriarch, thus creating rank and structure in the family, which spills over into the community, and into the nation. Empowering parents to educate their children, thus creating the idea and practice of collective knowledge.        

Think about that. This is the foundation of all education. And you might think it’s aimed at the youth, but indeed both, because the default is, parent’s be worthy. And we all know, understanding leads to liberty.   

You shall not kill.

This is the foundation of the sanctity of life. You can’t kill me because God says you can’t, this makes me special to God. Thus I am sacred. Now just when was it I became sacred, and when exactly do I stop being sacred? The original Hebrew word refers to murder: You can not kill out of conveyances. But if ones lives by the sword, than one dies by the sword. That is to say, you have the right to defend your life and what’s yours. Liberty.   

You shall not commit adultery.

By default, if you keep this commandment, you have the foundation of the family; you have the foundation of trust, because if you can’t trust the one you’re sharing a bed with, children with, then who can you trust? With whom can you do business? Form alliances? Trust begins in marriage and indeed is the cornerstone of marriage. Fidelity helps keep the family free of disease, and this extends into the community. Fidelity goes along way to keeping peace within a community. The family is the foundation of many communities, companies, and nations. Without the family you have tyranny. Marriage defines who’s having sex with whom, and whose kids are whose. . It establishes a branch, with a history and tradition of collective knowledge and wisdom which can be passed on and added to. Sex, being a primary motivator, and if women are recognized as the gift they are, leads to liberty.   

Thou shall not steal. 

This is the foundation of free enterprise. Simply by denying us the right to steal, by default, you have the right to possess. To trade, if you can trade, you can build wealth and trade it for wealth others have built, and thus you can grow as a community, as a nation. Jesus said ‘give to the poor,’ you cannot give what you do not possess. Everything we possess comes from obedience to this commandment. And you have the right to defend what is yours because if you are not willing to defend it, is it really yours? Liberty and prosperity.    

Thou shall not bear false witness. 

This is the foundation of law, of justice. You cannot have justice without truth, if you are not willing to witness to the truth, then how can you have justice, and of what use is law. One is depended upon the other. Liberty   

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor goods, harvest, ass, house, nor his wife.

This is the very bedrock of happiness, if you can keep this commandment, it means you have come to terms with who and what you are, and you are satisfied and pleased with what God has done and is doing for you in your life). Liberty.   

Now do you want to spend your time consumed with envy, worrying about what your neighbors have and you do not, what you could be and what you are not. Do you want to spend your time looking over your shoulder because you are a liar, a cheat, a thief, a killer, and the people you offended are hunting you down like a dawg, with a price on your head, with no regard for your life. Do you want to spend your time worrying about the man who’s wife you abused or running from women who blame their children on you, or spend your time dripping with disease. Do you want to spend your time learning everything you need to know from scratch, with no thought of teaching you, or helping you, to spend your time without the love and admiration of one’s parents; of ones’ children? Do you want to spend your time working at your task, with no break, with no time for family, community, or rest? Do you want to spend your time looking for and trying to satisfy all the gods the world has put up for you to admire and pay tribute. Do you want to spend your time in fear of displeasing these strange gods and having their wrath rain down upon you, because you don’t know who they are, or what to do to please them, to spend your time in hopelessness, because these gods offer you nothing beyond your grave?   Yes, I do believe these Ten Commandments were indeed gifts. If you walk thru a cemetery and look at the tombstones, what do you find? The day a person was born, and the day they died, that’s what you find. A person’s life is made of time, that’s all you have. If you consider the time, that simple obedience to these commandments free up, your God has truly given you the path to liberty.   ©

As a note; I do not believe in evolution, I believe "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." 

George Henry Nichols 

God of the Copybook Headings

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its ice-field, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbor and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Rudyard Kipling

1865-1936

THE REAL PROBLEM

What are we going to do or not do? That is the question. Depend on Politicians? Where, I ask, has this gotten us?

I ask you to watch the following film, at first it may seem a little silly, and you may wonder, what has this got to do with anything? But the truth is; this is the exact situation we are in.

Consider the rabbit; he is the conservative and/or the libertarian. He is happy, free and living his life as he sees fit, causing no one harm. Live and let live. He is interested in what is right, because what is right, keeps him free.

Now the fox is government and the evils of liberalism, he sees the rabbit and what the rabbit has and is envious, and he wants what the rabbit has for himself. But because of his envy, he can’t be the rabbit, so he set out to destroy (or consume) the rabbit. The fox is clever, sly and cunning, with evil in his heart.

The bear is the common democrat, who isn’t so clever and believes very little, and goes along with the fox because the fox promises him much. He is greedy and lazy more than he is envious.

Now in order for the fox to destroy the rabbit, he creates Tar Babies. Things that just aren’t right, things the rabbit can’t just pass by, because they interfere with the natural order of his freedom. (Abortion, Global Warming, Police actions, Pollution, Multiculturalism, Energy Shortages, Invasion (proper term for Illegal Immigration), Redefining Marriage, ect… ect… ect…

The fox is using the rabbit’s sense of decency against him, and the rabbit is compelled to put up a battle, but because the fox is sly, and the bear a brute with a big growl, the squeal of the rabbit goes unheard. So the fox is free to do as he chooses (evil) and prepares to consume the rabbit while the rabbit is tangle in the tar baby.

Notice also, how the fox treats the bear. The bear is a useful idiot, he takes from the bear freely to his own end; he ignores the bear and treats him with contempt, and presses him into service.

This is exactly what is going on today, we are the rabbit, and we are so tangle in the tar baby, the more we thrash around, the worst off we get. We have lost ever debate (tar baby), except the right to own and bare arms, and just how much ground have we lost there. (?)

Now you will notice at the end of the film, the rabbit quits struggling and listens to who the fox and bear are, and what they have planned, and he uses it against them, and thus a happy ending.

As you can see, they have blocked this video, not so much because it's racist, but because it tells you the truth of what they are doing, the real problem.. So much for free speech... Please refer to this link for the stories... Don't doubt for one moment, this man, Uncle Remus, a Negro slave, was filled with wisdom, and it's this wisdom they don't want you to hear.

 http://thebiggalootfrom.blogspot.com/2012/06/emperors-new-clothes.html

George Henry Nichols

The Law

There is much more to law than meets the eye, on the surface, it appears to be a set of rules, but these rules sets us against our instincts, our basic belief, survival of the fittest, so in order for law to work, one has to believe it will work, and live accordingly, and with success come to believe in the law. That is to say, if one is reared by the law, and the law works for this person, and he grows to respond according to the law, than he has sub planted his natural instinct (his animal response) with law. Another way of putting it is, he is now finding satisfaction for food, sleep and sex in the law, instead of through his own natural instincts. He is also likely to pass this belief on to his children, and so on until such time it fails to work any longer for whatever such reasons.

Interesting thing the law, the law is so much a part of us that few (if any) of us even have a clue what our natural instincts even are, though the art of parenting is doing just that, purging instinct from our children and instilling the law. Does that sound like a good thing? Remember, law is a subjective idea, it would not exist without the being and if it didn’t work to some degree. We are going to have food, sleep, sex and babies, period! So in order for law to work, it has to fill these basic needs, for these are the motivators, these are the things that cause man to act, according to what he believes.

If he believes in the law, than he will act according to the law, yet, if he doesn’t believe in the law, and appears to act according to the law, than he is stalking prey! Think about that. Remember, things need to add up. So in order for a culture to have law, its important for its members to believe in the law, and enforce it among those who don’t.

Do you have the right to do that? To enforce a law you made up, subjectively, right out of your mind. For the good of the culture? Who’s to say your law’s better than mine? Does might make right? Does the majority rule? Who’s to say? Yet we enforce laws everyday. Where did these laws come from? Why is it I need to obey them? How does law gain creditability? On what authority can you base law?

Now laws came into practice through several sources, by far the most common is the top dog syndrome, or might make’s right. This occurs when the dominate male starts dictating the rules of behavior to those around him, and are enforced by the brute force of the top dog and/or his cronies. With some success, the rules will tend to take hold simply because they work, because the basic needs are meet with less effort on the part of the individual. As a result, the laws are continued to be used and become part of our belief. At this basic level we call it the tribe.

Now we have to keep in mind that man is very self centered, he is going to have food, sleep and sex, or he will die in the pursuit of the same. So we also have to realize that according to evolution, we are here alone, we are born alone and we die alone. No one can be born for us, and no one can die for us. ‘Morley was dead as a doornail.’ Is what dad use to say. When you’re dead? You’re dead. So that dictates that food, sleep, and sex are as important as life itself.

So with this idea in mind, it is easy to see the limits of the tribe, its growth potential are limited to the thoughts and ideas of the guy in charge. So once you have a law along with traditions which work, the top dog tends to stagnate things. Why? Because he is in charge, and as long as things don’t change, he remains in charge. This can go on for generations, for when the chief dies, the next one in line changes things just enough to place himself in charge, then stagnation becomes the rule of the day, because as long as things don’t change; he’s in charge. So you see the natural progression of the tribe is stagnation.

Now we have established that God is. Now at this point we don’t know who he is or where he is. But that doesn’t limit man from using the idea of God to his own ends. Thus, with this idea of God common among men, many a God has been created to give the law authority above and beyond man, in other words, to give the chief cover, and as this was passed down through the generations, the chief himself came to believe in this God or Gods. But in this case, the law is only as good as its Gods. Now consider; if the God is fictitious , then law based on him will be flawed.

Every now and then a chief would come along who had great wisdom and could see pass his own self interest, with a vision for the people beyond food, sleep and sex. These chiefs, wrote into their law the idea of the people writing their own law. As this idea grew, so did the culture because the law’s limits were raised to the level of the people involved, and thus we had the Greeks, and the Romans, and many of our laws today are based on English law, which in turn is based on Greek and Roman law.

Notice here, we site law by the name of the people who thought it up, and ultimately destroyed it. The Greeks, the Romans, the English. That’s because there is a fundamental difference here. In the case of a tribe, the law is dictated by a king, chief or what have you. He and the God above him are the law. Whereas with the Greeks, Romans and English, the law stood on its own, and was passed on from generation to generation, and those ‘in charge’ administered to the law, but they themselves were not the law, indeed they held the law above themselves. In other words, ’they believed in the law.’

Wondering what killed such great cultures? Why did they fail? There was a time when the sun didn’t set on English soil, now that is a successful culture. What happened?

I call it degeneration. It’s when a culture is so successful, that a steady supply of food, sleep and sex gives way to various forms of distractions, and as the generations pass, we are so busy with our distractions, and because you don’t worry that much about food, sleep and sex, we fail to teach our young the foundations of their philosophy, and why it works. As we slowly forget our philosophy, the one bringing us a steady supply of food, sleep and sex, we begin to think we can write anything into the law and it will be so. And so we do, and the next thing you know, the law, nor the abiding philosophy are no longer based in truth, and begin to fail, but because the culture has forgotten what made them great (the truth) they don’t know how to fix it, after all, those are old fashioned ideas. So as time goes on and the culture weakens because it’s lost, (even though those in the culture are too arrogant to realize it) their enemies come over the wall and loot what’s left, and you have sudden death (to the surprise of the culture). So the law, and its abiding philosophy has to be base in truth, and that truth has to be passed on from generation to generation in tact, and has to be believed by each generation, or they just become predators in the tall grass of the law, bending and twisting it to their own ends. Either you believe in the law, or you don’t. ©

George Henry Nichols

You Want Fair?

          Fair? What the hell does that mean? It’s a word that has come into use to replace equal, a word communist use, they think everyone should be equal, I mean, it’s only fair… (?)  After all, our own constitution say’s, ‘all men are equal,’ but just like bible thumpers, they leave out, ‘under the law.’ Now don’t get me wrong… I love the constitution, I think it is the greatest government document ever written, but it is not the bible!!! And nowhere in the bible does it mention all men are created equal, nor does it refer to the idea of fair.

          To think we are equal is folly, (to lie to one’s self), and yet we buy into such crap on a daily bases, never really thinking about it. Right off the bat, we don’t look alike, we have tall people, short people, pretty people, ugly people, fat people, skinny people, white folks and black folks, those who can sing, and those who have to carry a tune in a bag, we have leaders, and we have workers and we have everything in between!!! Do we want the workers leading the county, and leaders doing the work? Do we want those who sing like the neighbors dog, singing to us? I ask you? I challenge you to think about it.

          But some people make to much money…!!! I have never had someone put a gun on me and say give me your money. No, I usually take my money willing to them and ask for what they are producing, because I want it. If I limit how much money that person can make, then how long is he going to produce what I WANT!!!

          If a person is a visionary, then he is going to try and bring his vision about, thus creating work for the workers, but if I put the worker in charge, because it’s only fair, then tell me, what will I have? Think about it, Stagnation and coffee breaks. Come on, be honest with yourself, don’t believe me…. Think about it…!!!.

          But what about all those sad stories out there, those poor ole folks who can’t make it, or this, or that, but what about??? Well I have sad story too, but I don’t go around bragging about it, mine story is sadder than yours, oh my, piss and moannn… It’s become a cultural pass time, the problem is, we believe all this crap because it moves us emotionally, well so does music and movies and bloody soap operas… STOP, get off the emotional Farris Wheel and bloody think about it…!!!

          I know; I can hear you now!!! Well, it’s not that simple… But, yes it is. But that’s not fair!!!! If you want fair!!! Go to a baseball game, when the ball is hit, crack!!!!! It is either fair, or foul… That simple. ©

The Plague of Stupid People

           I have a friend, who, when someone gets themselves killed because of stupidity, likes to say, ‘Natural Selection at work.’ The trouble is; I have come to agree with him.

          In the past, we have had to fight off various plagues, Small pocks, Polio, Scarlet fever, Yellow fever, the black plague and we have had plagues of locust, plagues of flies, mosquitoes so on and so forth. All of which raise havoc among those affected.

Let us first deal with the word stupid: Stupidity does not lend itself to a physical deficiency, (Idiot) or a lack of education or information, (ignorance), but instead describes a person who is dull, senseless, and makes poor decisions even though there is nothing physically wrong with them, and has the proper information and/or education.

          I believe we are a mist a plague of stupid people, we don’t see it, because we don’t tend to think that way. I mean, they’re people. Are they not due respect, aren’t we told that all people are alike, somehow equal, somehow deserving.

          Well, a little over a hundred years ago, mankind entered into the industrial revolution, and with it came many wonders. Ain’t life good? I have to say, yes it is. But along with the industrial revolution came a quieter revolution, one whose impact we may just now be feeling. The Safety Revolution.

          In the old days, if you were stupid, you didn’t really last very long. Something got you. You would do something stupid, and wa-la, you were dead. Stupid people didn’t live long, and those who did, were few in number. As a result, stupid people didn’t reproduce much, because they didn’t really live long enough.  The laws of evolution, or natural selection, only the best and brightest survived to reproduce, thus a positive DNA trend…

          So you have to ask yourself, ‘what has the safety revolution done for me?’ Well, it has made the work place safer, recreational facilities safer, and consumer products much safer (sometimes to the point of being useless). It has made our coffee cooler, and automobiles complicated beyond belief.

          Unintended consequences; perhaps we are unintentionally preserving the fate of stupid people, and thus have increased their number, and if they aren’t being killed off due to interference (safety revolution) with natural selection, then they live long enough to reproduce, and what is it that stupid people teach their children? Do I dare go there?

          Now, don’t misinterpret what I’m saying, because I indeed, am just making an observation based on the information at hand. I don’t think it can be fixed, because it is something only nature can deal with. But let us suppose I’m right, would there not be a downward or negative DNA trend, according the laws of evolution? ©

George Henry Nichols