Progressive Parasitism

If we were to dive into the histories of the Earth, perhaps the Han Dynasty of China, the ancient Japanese Shogunates, the Athenian Empire before and after the Peloponnesian War, the Ancient Roman Empire, etc.; one quickly begins to realize that “progressivism” is anything but ‘new.’ A more apt word for the movement, or the idea of abusing the violent compulsory power of the State to live on the labors of others, would be Parasitism.

par·a·sit·ism n. –
1. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
2. a parasitic mode of existence.
3. a diseased condition due to parasites.

Government, in and of itself, is a parasite – but it’s a parasite that offers more in the form of a positive symbiotic relationship than the wretched bottom-feeders that invariably decay it into a weapon against their own people. Government and the threat or active utility of violent force is what helps secure property rights, for instance; but is a dangerous mechanism to play with. Like all parasites it wants to consume everything and constraining the monstrosity of government has historically proven to be extremely difficult if not outright impossible. Recognizing that government is inherently a force and a system of violence, the Framers and Founders of the United States effectively thought of government as a “necessary evil.” Necessary but evil.

It is this distinction that is important to recognize in lieu of the modern parasite’s consistent appeal that they are humane and peace-loving. Government is a violent force – the more government you require, the more compulsion, and thus – the more violence. It is the essence of this that the prevailing view was a small, limited government that exists to serve only a few specific purposes, mostly securing the Liberties of the People; and nothing beyond that, those remaining powers being intended to be decentralized to many smaller governments and localized concerns via the States. Feeding the beast and expanding its scope invariably feeds into its ultimate desire to consume all.

Along comes the parasite that never pays for its crimes: the people. Not all the people, certainly, but a good number of them. Those predisposed to use whatever levers and gears and mechanisms that they may find to fulfill a sense of entitlement and demand that their existence is superior, that they deserve to be cared for by the labors of others. Time and again this is the mechanism the great parasite of government taps into so that it may pursue its object of absolute, unquestionable hegemonic domination. From Bread and Circuses to Alms to Social Welfare Programs – it’s all the same. The labors of others are being displaced via the violent powers of the State to care for them under the banner of benevolence. But how, I ask you, is robbing a particular portion of the population via the barrel of a gun so as to displace that wealth to another an act of benevolence? It isn’t; it’s an act of aggression and war, using the people’s very own government as a weapon against them. And always it becomes a perpetual downward spiral of an ever-increasing burden because enough is never enough – which happens with perpetual theft being executed via a proxy; as the parasites never have to work for it they always demand and expect more.

It is this question of the historically displayed inability of the people to recognize that their own body-politic has become their worst enemy, worthy of war and conflict to oppose, and the paradigm shift was facilitated by a significant portion of their own population who sought to use it against them. Always it seems to catch them by surprise when, always, it follows the same pattern of abuse – like Domestic Violence, the lass keeps going back for more. This is because they identify the parasites as one of their own: they look like them, talk like them, have similar experiences, and use appeals to common bonds to perpetuate their exploitation. Yet it’s parasitical, violence and exploitation all the same. The government likes it because it may grow in power, the parasites like it because they don’t have to work for a living, and the people are systematically abused by it, but usually allow that abuse beyond the point of no return.

Why?

My conclusion is that it’s incompetence and cowardice, not in equal measure, but both variables largely present that leads to the perpetual downward spiral of civilizational collapse. The incompetence can be addressed, but the cowardice is another matter. On the Cowards I will only remark, “A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy.” A coward is always a false friend, because when push comes to shove they’ll always betray you to save themselves.

On the matter of incompetence, it generally takes the form of narrative or the abuse and misdirection of language to steer away from inconvenient perspectives. The Art of Propaganda is not to stop the people from asking questions, that would be too obvious an act of tyranny and likely to cause a major reaction, but rather to stop the people from asking the WRONG questions. In other words, manipulate the narrative and the wording – just so – that the dangerous questions and comparisons never occur to them, or if they do, they may be easily dispatched with claims of disunity or inciting unrest.

There are three primary strategies of this, but we can simply boil it down to three words, for now: obfuscation, misdirection, and deception. A massive amount of information could be poured into each of the primary strategies of propaganda; novels and volumes written, and I may write a blog concerning each one to go into necessary details, but to the purpose of this document; the idea is effectively presented by merely naming them.

Having established that obfuscation and misdirection are two primary strategies, we can therefore arrive to the conclusion that distinction isn’t their friend. This is the case and making necessary distinctions can help clear the road moving forward, catch them in their duplicity, ferret out the techniques, and help recognize the mutual interests the parasites share in committing acts of aggression against the people.

A key distinction that must be remembered in the modern context is Country vs. Nation, which leads to a closely related distinction – Government vs. Society. Country and Nation are not the same thing, but in the efforts of parasitism it must be blurred where they appear to be the same thus justifying the parasite’s unjustifiable acts of aggression against their own people; the progressives in seeking to feed off the labors of people and the government in seeking to exploit that desire for power. These distinctions invariably touch upon the issue that, once distorted, compels the host into complacency until it’s too late: Sovereignty. The Sovereignty of a Nation is not the same as the Sovereignty of a Country which is not the same as the Sovereignty of the Individual.

Recognizing these things allows simple, but profound conclusions, such as: The Federal Government of the United States is committing acts of aggression and war against the Sovereignty of all liberty-minded peoples of the American Nation. That conclusion would not be possible if you believed that the government represented the sovereignty of the American Nation; instead of the body-politic possessing its own sovereignty in service to the sovereignty of the American Nation. Distinctions matter. They are NOT that sovereignty, they SERVE that sovereignty, until they no longer do (which they don’t) – and then it’s up to the people to decide how to address it.