Editor's note: Since the mid-20th century, American children have been victims of the global socialist experiment, award-winning political author and historian Richard Maybury says.
Supposed child-rearing "experts" have given naïve young parents detailed instructions on how to raise what one guru called "a new social unit of labor."
Those children are now today's frigid politicians and bureaucrats, foisting mechanistic social-engineering schemes – like the Federal Reserve's monetary policies – upon us.
But in today's edition of our weekend Masters Series – Part II of an essay originally published in the March 2009 issue of his Early Warning Report – Richard suspects we are entering the most chaotic period in human history… the beginning of the failure of the global socialist experiment.
Why Are They So Ruthless? Part II
By Richard Maybury, Early Warning Report
Socialism was originally called "scientific" socialism.
A member of the WWII generation once told me about her mistakes. She said scientific child-rearing was all the rage when her Baby Boomer children were young. And the experts made her paranoid about germs. Following their instructions, she kept her first child's environment as sterile as possible.
In the crucial early years of his life, she rarely touched her child for fear of contaminating him.
Long after, she realized a more mature woman would never have fallen for such cold-hearted nonsense.
In addition to an obsession with cleanliness, parents were taught that right from birth, children should be instilled with strict discipline and should not be "spoiled" by hugging them when they cried.
All children were the same and required no individualized rules or care. Sweeping generalizations – such as, "children need"... and "children should be" – were applied wholesale to millions around the world. And this woman followed these generalizations.
As the sapling is bent, so grows the tree. Ever since that conversation, I have wondered about the crazy, mechanistic social-engineering schemes governments have foisted onto us, especially the Federal Reserve's monetary policies. How many of these brutal schemes have been created by politicians and bureaucrats who were raised in that frigid, mechanical, never-hug-the-child way? Are these people cold and distant, incapable of caring about those they are harming?
Dr. Benjamin Spock became widely hated for trying to remove the callousness from child-rearing.
Again, as the sapling is bent. And if we judge a tree by its fruit, the people in charge of economic policy must be bent.
When we were teachers, my wife and I met many an educator who was like that. They were machines, obsessed with doing everything the Right Way, no matter how much harm it inflicted on a child who needed to march to a different drummer.
In some cases, these teachers' heads were conservative Republican, but their hearts were of the finest socialist granite.
If you are married...
... this awareness that we are all part of a century-long socialist experiment, may be of some help in averting domestic discord. Remind yourself often that in the most important years of your life – the first 10 – you and your spouse were probably raised by very young people who were totally baffled and much better-suited for picking berries and battling mastodons than caring for children.
Over the years, I have seen many dozens of children raised by people who were, themselves, still children.
If you think you might be one of the victims of the great socialist experiment...
... here are some of the books that helped me realize statism isn't the only way to view the world...
| • | Planned Chaos by Ludwig von Mises. |
| • | Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek. |
| • | What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray Rothbard. |
| • | Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand. |
One thing we can be sure of is...
... regardless of how smooth and caring government officials look on camera, they will continue being ruthless and unfeeling because they would not have their jobs if they weren't.
These people are Dr. Frankensteins, conducting a social-engineering experiment in which you, I, and those we love are their guinea pigs.
Anyone who thinks these Frankensteins will do something that's good for the guinea pigs must have been born yesterday. The Frankensteins will do whatever they think is necessary to make their vile experiment work.
Remember the comment by Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel... He said today's economic tragedy is "an opportunity to do things you could not do before... You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
As a child, what were you?
Socialist guru Aleksandra Kollontai (1872-1952) once wrote that, after a woman has a child, "she no longer belongs to herself, she is serving the collective, producing from her own flesh and blood a new social unit of labor."
So there you have it. When you and I were children, we saw ourselves as children. To the pediatric and educational experts guiding our unsuspecting parents, we were social labor units.
As an economic model, socialism is stone dead. It does not work. It's an economic Godzilla. But as an unconscious, cold-hearted knee-jerk reaction to trouble, socialism is thriving. It's how we were raised.
I am beginning to suspect that we are entering the most chaotic period in human history. I can't think of any way this economic calamity won't lead to riots, and I hope you are building your emergency preparations. I plan to stay with you all the way and do whatever I can to help you prosper. I hope you will warn everyone you care about.
Regards,
Richard Maybury
Editor's note: Richard Maybury is a celebrated author, historian, and free-market thinker who has predicted some of the most important events of the last 20 years… long before they happened…
He's convinced the coming "economic calamity" will be a rough ride. But it will also be a chance to revive America's legendary freedom, abundance, and opportunity. To get on Richard's Early Warning Report mailing list – and learn how to protect your wealth against political, military, and financial chaos – click here.