Thomas Sowell: 'barbarians Inside The Gates' [a Collection Of Brilliant Essays

By Author: Craig Read
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In the 'realist' school of political science philosophy, Robert Gilpin is prima inter pares. His works should be read by any with an interest in how the major 'isms' line up against each other, and what the underlying tenets of each are. In the realm of general political theology, no one is as accomplished, talented, or well-informed as the former Marxist turned Libertarian Professor Thomas Sowell of Stanford. He is simply an American treasure. Too bad for America that this man did not become its first Black President.

In re-reading his classic 'Barbarians' which is a collection of essays that put forward in irrevocable force and logic, the arguments for freedom, free-markets, individualism and Judeo-Christian responsible morality; I 'refound' some obvious inferences to reality and the view of the elite vs. the little person. Or we could say, the different ideas which animate the elitists who run our world, as opposed to the dirty peasant mass which creates, makes and maintains that world. It is the difference between 'them' and 'us', in the Manichean real-world sense.

The rhetoric of socialism may be inspiring, ...
... but its actual record is dismal. Countries which for centuries exported food have suddenly found themselves forced to import food to stave off starvation....While my desires for a better life for ordinary people have not changed from the days of my youthful Marxism, experience has taught the bitter lesson that the way to get there is the opposite of what I once thought.

Is the Black-Arab God/Cultural Marxist Deity listening to that sentiment? Marxist Fascism, or Communalism in any guise always fails. The Dum party, run by the functionaries of leftard intolerance and shrill bleating socialist ne'er do wells, would actually do much better politically and with the real world, if they eschewed the Obamination and took up Sowellism instead.

Sargon the Great in 2500 BC instituted command and control. His nascent 'multinational' empire, did not long survive. Cults of personality, and of ideological fascist paganism have never survived very long. 'Total' control in the guise of a bureaucracy, or a Dear Leader, or an anti-humanist absurdity such as Islam always will fail. Socialism is immoral. That is one reason why it can never succeed.

As Sowell relates society is always changing in some way. Throughout history every generation has been alarmed at something or other in the general zeitgeist. 'The End of days stories', due to a collapse in general attitudes, morality, energy, or sophistication, have always been common. They fill whole sections of the Torah and Bible. Will we likewise summon the rectitude and common-sense necessary to roll-back cultural Marxism; economic socialism; and the lunacy of the Multi-cult, cult?

In the early 19th century for example, there were alarming levels of crime and degenerate behavior in American cities and in many European cities as well. What was done about it ?

Massive efforts were made on many fronts to roll back the tide of barbarism. Programs to instill moral values became widespread....Sunday school attendance triple between 1821 and 1851.

The first real police forces were organized across the United States and mass movements to get people to stop drinking likewise spread across the country. The per capita consumption of alcohol...fell by 1850 to one-fifth of what it had been in 1829.

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The theory of Political Islam has been brilliantly explained at http://www.western-civilisation.com. You can also read more about Arab devastation.