Give the horse a light rein,
he knows what to do,
he learned it from you, and
you can’t do his job for him.
Bureaucratic rule-making drives up costs and drives down cheerfulness. If you want government to solve a problem for you, you just enabled bureaucratic rule-making. Does the horse ask the rider to carry him? Government exists to provide broad guidelines, not definite rules, which bureaucrats can and do concatenate indefinitely, until finally one refuses to get up out of bed in the morning simply out of an abundance of caution.
Government are the banks of the national stream, a stream of life who move their banks around ceaselessly to accommodate their naturally dynamic hydrology. If the banks — government — get into the stream, they pollute the stream with dirt, aka bureaucrats’ rules. Then the stream no longer runs clear and clean but has to try to self-clean by washing the dirt of its banks away — bureaucrats’ rules, always in excess of government guidelines — or settling it to the bottom, beneath the clean, clear, running water. Let the banks of the stream of American life — government — gently and quietly guide the stream without getting into it as dirt — bureaucrats’ rules — which does not belong in the stream.
Don’t ask government to solve your problems. That is asking the banks of a stream, the streams’ two guidelines, to get into the stream of national life and pollute it with dirt, with rules. Solve your problems yourself. That is the spirit of American freedom.
- And note: a stream has only two banks, two guidelines. Any more than that means the banks are in the stream, polluting it with the dirt of rules, not guiding it from the sidelines.
Here suggested is a new, radically simplified Republican Party — or better, All American Party — Contract With America:
You stop asking us to solve your problems.
We stop burdening you with rules.
Do we have a deal?
These college guys went and jumped off a cliff to demonstrate their brave novelty. Peering over the rim and viewing the collective splat below, fewer and fewer people now are going to be inclined to make a similar demonstration. Instead, they will pull back from the edge and keep walking away from it in search of classical education, classical art, classical family, classical food, etc. We have had our fill of the wonderful bravery of self-mutilation. It really isn’t that helpful, and it certainly is not charming, Karen. New Math, Common Core, Wymin’s Studies, Genetic Deterioration to Who Knows What By Way of Endless Vaccines . . . it’s all just self-mutilation on the way down from a cliff-jump, and waiting for the splat. Only the drug-addled now will take that for leadership, and they are welcome at the bottom’s mixing of bodily fluids.
What’s to care about someone who has already jumped off a cliff? Why is what Higher Education does a concern to anybody? They’re off the cliff headed down or already feed for birds and bears. That’s that. Time to Move On, no?
Who is doing classical education, classical art, classical law, classical theology, classical engineering, classical medicine, classical statecraft, classical military science, etc.? Would not news items addressing those questions be a serious aggregator’s search and content now?
And if none such exist at the moment, at least why keep remonstrating with these poor degenerates who have already jumped to their death?
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Principle III
Sankranti day marks the arrival in the farmer’s houses of the grains which are the fruits of their labours. Sankranti is a holy festival for worldly achievement. It is also a cherished day of rest in the cool atmosphere. Man needs days of rest after a period of hard work. Only then one can enjoy peace of mind. Samyak kranti iti Sankranti (that which brings good change is Sankranti). Sankranti confers peace and heralds a welcome change. It brings out the inner joy in people. It effects a change in lifestyle. It generates sacred thoughts. People today do not recognise these sacred changes. They are all immersed in worldly acquisitions and have no regard for higher things. They should instead seek every opportunity to cultivate good qualities. These good qualities are Utsaham, Sahasam, Dhairyam, Buddhi, Shakti, Parakramam (zeal, determination, courage, discrimination, ability and heroism).
