A group of people want to set up a commercial merry-go-round and one of them wants to sabotage the enterprise.
A: looking worried “you know, this thing’s nor turning”
B: nonchalant “why does it have to turn?”
A: “well . . . it IS a merry-go-round or, at least, it is supposed to”
B: philosophically, looking away bored, “turning is overrated”
A: “but . . . it has to turn!”
B: “why”
A: “because otherwise people will not come and pay to ride it!”
B: “sure they will”
A: “why would they?”
B: “why would they not?”
A: “because it doesn’t turn!”
B: “turning is not everything”
A: “it is for a merry-go-round!”
B: “aaaaaw . . . people will come and look at it”
A: “people will come and stand in front of a stationary merry-go-round and pay to stare at it!?”
B: “sure”
A: “are you really that stupid?!”
B: “why?”
A: “what you mean ‘why’? You’re suggesting as the most natural thing in the world that people are going to pay to stand in front of a non-working merry-go-round and look at it!!”
B: “perhaps you concept of it and mine are different”
A: beginning to look at B incredulously and with manifest exasperation “what you mean ‘different’?! A merry-go-round is something specific that works in specific ways and people expect to get on it, sit and the thing turns and there’s music and people are be taken for a ride in it, if it doesn’t turn, what’s the use?!”
B: “some will come”
A: “idiots would come!”
B: “oh . . . well . . . just because you don’t agree with them you don’t have to call them ‘idiots’”
A: “how bout ‘morons’?”
B: “you are too harsh on those that disagree with you”
A: “and look . . . it has no seats”
B: “so?”
A: “what you mean ‘so’?!”
B: “seats are overrated”
A: “what?!”
B: “people will just stand on it”
A: “stand on it?!”
B: “sure”
A: “people will pay to come and stand on a stationary merry-go-round with no seats, they’ll just stand”
B: “sure, why not, some will, we’ll just work with those”
A: “NOBODY’LL COME AND IF SOMEBODY DOES HE’LL BE A CRAZY @SS MORON!!!”
B: “maybe some people will see it differently than you. You don’t have to insult them for it”
A: “if something doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. People won’t pay for it!”
B: “maybe you won’t pay for it. Others might. It is, after all, a merry-go-round”
A: “no. It’s not.”
B: “others might consider it is”
A: “it doesn’t matter what others consider. A merry-go-round that has no seats and doesn’t turn is not a merry-go-round. At the most it is a non-working merry-go-round in need of repairs”
B: “that’s YOUR opinion”
A: “what the f#ck do you mean ‘my opinion’? It is not a matter of a f#cking opinion!! This a a f#cking fact!!!”
B: “I think this will work out, man”
A: “how?!”
B: “let’s give it a chance”
A: “a chance to what?”
B: “a chance, man. Don’t you believe in giving a chance?”
A: “what chance can one give to a non-working apparatus?”
B: “well . . . it may be ‘non-working’ to you”
A: “and what is it to you?”
B: “well . . . it depends on what your definition of ‘work’ is, you know?”
So, anybody beginning to see a pattern here?
The saboteur does not speak directly against the merry-go-round. But he’s quite effective, nonetheless.
Do you guys have ANY idea of how much that disease is part of the American problem?
Let me give you guys a tip: some people ARE really that dumb. They seem to be normal. They dress up, they shake hands, they drive cars, they vote. They are mostly imbeciles. But they manage to function well enough to prevent being committed.
Others use the tactic as a technique to defuse the opposition. Like the guy who looks at you in the eye and goes “what’s wrong with socialism?” as if he was asking “what’s wrong with onions on the hamburger?”
It is not easy to talk to a moron or a pretend moron. One wants to talk adult stuff. But the adult in front of us behaves as a three years old while all the time, from behind the camouflage of naiveté, he’s doing his job as relentless as the weather.
So, what you do?
This is a true story: quite a few years ago I was a political activist. I roamed the streets, put up posters, talked to people, distributed pamphlets, signed people up for my political party, helped organize meetings, wrote stuff and all the usual things.
As part of those activities I and a bunch of others set up a little stand near the most conspicuous monument of downtown Buenos Aires, the Obelisk. We carried a megaphone, I gave a little speech and then we started talking with the people that gathered to see what the goings on were.
It was a time of political activism, near election time and of course, a little while into the procedures there comes a small cell, three guys, of the “Movement Towards Socialism”, a Trotskyite organization, very small, very virulent, one foot within the law, one outside, the kind that burns cars (not their own), breaks windows, throws Molotovs, etc. etc.
These guys are professional agitators, they are not amateurs. They are seldom less than three and they act as if they don’t know each other, as if their actions are spontaneous and they work like this: the leader takes up a position and starts challenging an opponent and the other two spread up amongst the public and support the leader with “spontaneous” attitudes of their own, either cheering, laughing, taunting or whatever and trying as we say to “carry water to their own water wheel”
So the leader engages me, challenging me in front of about fifty onlookers, and we end up talking about East Berlin and the Berlin Wall and I’m going with that socialism is always a huge jail otherwise people flee and the socialist oligarchs end up alone and I ask this Trotskyite what he thinks the Berlin Wall is there for and he says “the Berlin Wall is there so that Western spies don’t enter the socialist East Berlin and steal their secrets”
Of course Argentineans are not stupid and everybody started to laugh and taunt these guys for their stupidity. But I was observing this Trotskyite carefully and I noticed something, he didn’t bat an eyelid. He was doing a job. And he was a pro. So in that particular setting, his lie didn’t work and he was laughed at but in other places, with perhaps a younger crowd or a less educated one, he might have gotten through with the lie and establish it in the minds of his brainwashed listeners.
That’s one tactic of the left. They have a job to do. They passionately believe in socializing the whole planet. They are like the priests of an old religion, willing to do anything to further it, always firm and unflinching. Sometimes their lies work. Sometimes they don’t. But they have time on their side and nothing else to do. They have devoted their lives to socialism as the worst raghead has dedicated his life to alla and pisslam.
I have matured this idea that most of them are irrecoverable for a Free society and that they are too dangerous to be left unchecked.
The current state of American politics and culture proves me right. They have succeeded.
During the times of the Military Juntas in Argentina, in the 1970s, the armed forces used to round socialists up, put them on cargo planes, fly the planes over the ocean, open the ramps and push them out.
I used to consider this a little extreme. Not that I didn’t support the Juntas. I did.
But the civil war was won and we did avoid descending into pure, Cuban like, socialism.
I often wonder about how things would have evolved in Argentina if all those socialist hadn’t been dumped in the ocean.
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