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The basic underlying laws governing life in modern society are the cruel, hard laws of survival of the fittest, competition, and dog-eat-dog. They are the same laws that govern the animal world in which the strong prey on the weak, the strong live and the weak die. It is the law of the jungle in all of its brutality and cruelty. Yet at the same time there is a higher element in man that causes him to try to help the weak and protect him from the hard consequences of these laws (by helping him through charity, etc.). Man has exhibited an idealistic refusal to accept these basic, brutal laws that govern life and somehow circumvent them. He has experimented with various socialistic systems in an attempt to circumvent these laws and construct a system that is kinder --- but the experiments have been failures (e.g. Communism, European socialism, American welfare system). Man's well-intentioned attempts to help his fellow man seem to usually end up as ugly monstrosities that are even worse than the disease. The reasons for the failures generally relate to man's basic nature. The liberals who have proposed and executed the attempts have been naive in regard to life and human nature. Man's general character, his propensities toward things like laziness, deceit, selfishness, greed, foolishness, self- destructive habits, etc. tend to frustrate efforts in this regard. The great sounding ideas and solutions that the liberals have tried haven't worked. They look to big government for the solution and end up with a Big Brother --- one very obnoxious and arrogant fellow who takes a lot more away than he gives. The facts of life: the struggle to survive, the struggle to eat. Competition for limited (and often scarce) resources. Feb 1993
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