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The End of American Civil Society? This vid connects the consequences seen in Ethiopia to the American bailout frenzy.
** Draft (More) This vid connects the consequences seen in Ethiopia to the American bailout frenzy.
** Draft Script **
The other night I was watching a heart rending story about unnecessary growing poverty and famine in Ethiopia.
As I picked out the unexamined details from the report, I recognized how easy it would be to profitably solve these problems, with a consequence that Ethiopia would be prosperous and well feed; however, I realized that I assumed a system of laissez-faire capitalism that would be both necessary for success and totally unacceptable to the people victimized by lack of it. They would rather watch their children die painfully than accept the justice of respecting the right of another man to live free from the initiation of force and fraud.
As I IMd back and forth with a friend while watching the video, I painfully observed that Ethiopia sounded like some backwards countrylike the Bush-Obama America.
How can I explain this to those that may have just been offended by that statement, when they should be more offended by the truth of my statement?
In our foreign policy, the US correctly identifies the want of a vital civil society in other countries suffering under authoritarian governments. A civil society being the aggregate of those institutions of free association acting independently of the government. The co-optation by government of independent associations generally leads to the growth of extremist religious organizations as the principle channel for expressing political dissent.
If we recognize that an authoritarian state contradicts the requirements of man to live as man, how does that condition develop? There is recent historical precedent of liberal democracies transforming into authoritarian regimes, who strangled civil society with governmental controls. I refer here to European fascism.
As Alfredo Rocco explained at that time, fascism stresses the necessityof sacrificeeven up to the total immolation of the individual, in behalf of societysociety is the end, individuals the means, and its whole life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends. [1]
There were echoes of these words from 1925 from both sides of the recent American election.
The Bush Administration is best described as an Orgy of Sacrifice, as the President wantonly solicited the destruction of greater values to achieve lesser values for the benefit of the collective good. This administration undermined private institutions through public-private partnerships and initiatives, private means under public control directed toward the attainment of social ends. Predictably, this led to a private collapse.
Now, we are promised more public help to the private sector, with more public control. A public contribution to leverage the looting of remaining private values to be sacrificed upon the alter of the social good. As this private collapse--caused by the exhaustion of toting socially mandated burdens--continues, the line of bailout beggars grows and they eagerly seek to be yoked by the Congress to the task of achieving social ends.
The erosion of American civil society accelerates. William Ferris (you may call him Dr. Ferris if you prefer) has attempted to persuade us that there is a need for a federal Department of Culture to revitalize our national spirit by strengthening our cultural programs at every level. [2] Joseph Goebbels would be proud that his legacy for government directed public enlightenment has been embraced.
America has tasted the poison of authoritarianism, and it has sickened us. Now is yet another moment of choice, shall we follow the bailout whims of Congress and drink more poison, or free ourselves to its ill effects by rejecting altruistic paternalism and embracing life affirming values and virtues: Reason, Justice, Freedom, Production, and Achievement?
[1] L. Peikoff, Ominous Parallels, p. 17; quoting The Political Doctrine of Fascism, an address delivered at Perugia, 8/30/1925.
[2] W. Ferris, Put Culture in the Cabinet, New York Times, 12/26/2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27ferris.html (Less)
Mickey Cho & Hanna Baek - NOT FOR SALE @ uc davis imaginasian '08
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welcome to the land of the free/ where we believe/
in the equality of all/ but there are still things unseen/
but under it all/ a system of corruption and greed/
lies, and misdirection to the innocent we/
are now among/ there's people who are telling us lies/
that slavery's dead/ but slavery is well and alive
sex trafficking is happening and passing us by/
no reaction, lack of action in a passionless time/
these cash croppers out to get money/
go across seas to these third world countries/
they take advantage of these families with nothing/
in hopes of using kids to exploit/ the dirtiness of man/
the underlining filth of all humanity that's manifested in every sex trafficking plan/
they blind them with the hope of opportunity/
take them from their mom and dad to the land inhabited by you and me/
welcome to america
we brag about technology, degrees, even wedding rings/
but to most of these girls, their virginity is everything/
so these slave owners take them aside/
beat and abuse and rape them till they're broken inside/
living in shame/ crying for help/
ages that range/ anywhere from seventeen and younger to twelve/
and younger as well/ it's sick to think of it/
but these middle aged men in their thirties and forties have twisted images/
this is the time that we're living in/
where children are forced to be an instrument/
I'm sickened by the wickedness/
now picture it/ still frame, frozen in time/
a group of girls for the picking, one chosen in line/
and taken to a room with a man she's never met before/
crying to be free! right now she's never meant it more/
and there's nothing you could say to me/
make no mistake, this isn't prostitution, this is real slavery/
this is a loss of innocence/ the cost of our lost in the interest/
of justice/ has it lost all significance?/
in our images of our pimps/ there's a difference/
we glorify them/ but they're horrified of them/
and they wonder what their lives just might've been/
if they weren't alive/ terrified at the sight of them/
and I realize now how blind I've been/
seeing only me in the reflection of the world/
when the girls that i speak of/ are closer than we realize/
underground bars, massage parlors, at every side/
and i feel we have the right to be/
informed that this problem's infiltrated our society/
we use the internet to search up on the best gifts/
but these girls are being sold around on craigslist/
see the severity/ the fullness of the matter/
that these children are enslaved/ being served upon a platter/
why?!/ I support these organizations/
that really go into these nations and these places just to set free/
cause in their minds they have to wonder if they'll ever make it out/
they're probably thinking did the universe forget me?/
so I pray that our God will come and honor His/
promises of grace/ and be a father to the fatherless/
to be a voice for the voiceless/ life is about choices/
will we choose to stand up or stand still/
open the eyes of those around you/ there's evil that surrounds you/
and we've become so numb that we just can't feel/
take part in this/ put your heart in this/
stand tall for the broken hearted/ cause no one else will
no one else will/ 27 million children caught up in the slave trade/
today and it grows still/
fight until the righteous prevail/
these girls cannot be bought/
these girls are... Not For Sale. (Less)
Justice Society of America 27 (2009) (Minutemen-Molotov) 
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Justice Society of America 27 (2009) (Minutemen-Molotov)
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