Free Life Commentary No 181, 16th February 2009.
This speech, given to the think tank Conservative Future by the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, Sean Gabb, has many good ideas but unfortunately is either ignorant of, or in denial regarding the impossibility of these ideas being put into practice.
The meaning of this is that you should not try to work with the Establishment. You should not try to jolly it along. You should not try fighting it on narrow fronts. You must regard it as the enemy, and you must smash it.
Yes, smash it. Destroy it utterly. Take it apart and burn the peices. This cannot be done if you use the current system to get to a position where you can do these things. You can only do this from a position of strength and morality, once you participate it has already corrupted you and so its must be done without resorting to politics as we know it.
The system, as it is now, is based on mutual back-scratching, exchanges of influence and favours, and garnering support in return for concessions. These need to be bypassed, avoided and left unused if there is to be any hope of achieving their removal from our political life.
A tree cannot be persuaded to fall with kind words and promises, sometimes the only tool that will do is an axe.
The speech itself is enlightening but more so are the comments afterwards. Mr Gabb knew that this would be a hostile audience and was prepared for disagreement. I am surprised however that he did not see that the comments afterwards demonstrate the utter hoplessness of trying to use the system to bring about its own downfall. Those touched by the hand of politics, as it stands now, are forever lost, corrupted and indoctrinated into a world where entitlement and parasitism are not only accepted but actively encouraged.
They say that it is always darkest just before dawn. I can only hope that dawn comes soon lest we become blinded by the darkness.
