IMPOSSIBLE EQUALITY
PART 3
The end will always justify the means.
French Revolution: Within six months of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" the revolt evolved into an envy-based public rage against all privilege. (You've heard of "white privilege?") The heads of the privileged, the rich and the successful began falling to lynch mobs.
People became believers in Rousseau's gospel. Death for unbelievers was the remedy. Believe, or die. (Is this why Democrats want our guns?)
~ William Gairdner, The Epoch Times ~
Maximilien Robespierre applauded the death of a quarter-million French citizens in the name of "equality," which he described as a "virtue." In a 1794 speech he said, "The basis of revolution is both virtue and terror. Terror without virtue is murderous; virtue without terror is powerless. Terror is swift, severe, indomitable justice."
The same magic spell is found in all subsequent revolutions - seen in the words of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Hitler, Castro and Pol Pot, who murdered millions in the name of equality. Believe, or die.
A French writer observed that when one assumes all men are naturally good, one inevitably wishes to kill them all. By definition, under intense desire for equality, no one can possibly be equal enough.
So, the bad are labeled "enemies of the state." The privileged aristocrat is targeted, then the baker who sold him bread. (Contact tracing)
Eventually, all internal enemies suspected of the slightest privilege must be suppressed, silenced (cancel culture), fined, imprisoned or liquidated. Killing is the logical and cheapest way to achieve perfect equality and social justice.
But equality and justice never arrive, because they are continuously redefined (nothing in life is equal). That's why revolutions end by eliminating even their own founding theorists who are "not sufficiently virtuous."
Friday: It's in the oven as we speak
We will observe Thanksgiving, post Part 4
on Friday, and our concluding thoughts on Saturday.
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