By Sarge
I live in a community that can’t even be described as a village. We have no organized government like a council or a board in charge of infrastructure beyond the Parish Council person representing our area. She’s a nice lady and works hard for us. I have her phone number, her address and know her on sight. That’s the way I like my politicians-accessible. But that’s from a country sensibility and understanding of the way I think it should be. You might think differently. But one of the things I’ve learned from my travels and my country residence is metaphors approach reality from different angles.
Like the programs of Big Government versus Milking Machines. (Say what!)
Okay. Look at it this way. We have dairy farms and we’ve moved from personalized, small family operations to large “factory farms” with thousands of cattle and mechanization taking the place of people. Is this better?
People care about animals. We call it compassion from the Old French compassioun (1340a.d.) It means pity or sympathy.
Progressive Political thought wants you to believe Big Government cares about the people it governs. But it’s a lie.
Think of it this way: a farmer can milk a cow. He understands the mechanics, delivers the necessary pressure and persuades the cow to produce. The farmer gets milk, the pressure on the udder & sac is relieved-bothparticipants attain a mutually beneficial end. But to be efficient machines are necessary.
The milking machine can milk a cow. But it can’t clamp onto an udder without assistance. It can produce suction through an undulating tension drawing the milk outward then pumps it to a receptacle. But that machine can’t calm or soothe a jittery animal. It can’t detect a sore udder or smell a foul discharge indicating infection. The machine produces a similar conclusion to the farmer’s effort. But the machine has no personal stake in the quest. It’s sheer mechanical operation. There’s no loyalty between the cow and the machine. There’s no spiritual attachment. Its uncaring, unfeeling, mechanical suction transfers milk through plastic to steel, to homogenizer, to pasteurizer, to market. It doesn’t matter beyond the service provided when a farmer supervises its function.
In short, the machine has no emotional contact or attachment to the cow. The cow is what makes the farm necessary and functional. It might not be any smarter than the grass it eats, but it must be cared for and treated by veterinary medicine. Its assets must be managed properly or the poor thing will be neglected and benignly abused. The cow can “sull up” (become sullen) and not give milk because of poor maintenance. When a cow ceases its productivity it’s put out to pasture until it’s slaughtered. Sound like National Health Care? Better to care for the cow than lose a herd from neglect.
There’s a parallel here to be drawn. It concerns Government distancing itself from the people through Progressive Politics: the removal of people’s governance by ever-growing bureaucracies controlled by politicians and their selected “theoretical experts”. They’re the machine.
Americans have become removed from the control of their nation through their own neglect. And we need to stop it before our individual rights are eroded so badly the foundation of this country, The Constitution, cracks and crumbles from the onslaught of destructive elements set against it. The weight of continually growing bureaucracy and experimentation with government through the use of theoretical policies and endeavors diminishes the control people have over their political environment daily.
Accepting compromise becomes compromising unto itself. It becomes dangerous: lulling us into believing our displacement from our responsibility makes us more in control. That being less involved will supply more control: that leaving it alone will allow it to heal autonomously and without our oversight. Governance doesn’t work that way.
America was always meant to be a participatory republican effort, as in representative of the people’s will. It was never meant to be ruled over by an oligarchy of self-appointed plutocratic gentry believing they’re better than we. We know politicians aren’t superior but they can’t accept our knowing it.
They want to be gods in the machine.
Thanks for listening
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