A Kind, Painless, Stable Life

On this day:

1405
Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
1789
Jacques Necker is dismissed as France’s Finance Minister, sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
1804
A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
1864
American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
1940
World War II: Vichy France regime is formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
1947
The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
1972
The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

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"The flood crisis was someone's fault." The agitator always summons the same god.

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Why do tennis coaching boxes seem to be filled with family and lab assistants?

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Spam calls masquerade as polite and intimate. They create a miasma of insincerity and inspire rudeness.

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It's been fun watching the dim-bulb Mamdani flickering and his smug supporters rationalizing.

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A Kind, Painless, Stable Life

Socialism despises competition and its fallout of failure. In a way, it is an intolerance of the nature of life with its ups and downs--and eventual fatal denouement. Those who relentlessly try to interfere with all social and economic events are actually attempting to smooth the uncertainties of living and homogenize the outcomes of social and economic interactions.

We see encountering risk and overcoming it as success. They see risk as a basic enemy of life. And they are willing to sacrifice progress--the result of risk-taking--to eliminate it. In the back of their self-declared kind minds, they believe their ingenuity can substitute for the creative destruction of the marketplace. It's a wonder that they allow our dangerous social interactions, like school and romance.

Perhaps this explains the Left's hysterical, aggressive reaction to the chaotic Virus.

But the Left is tolerant; they do allow for some disorder. They are quite willing to put up with the messy period of social disruption while they sort out who they will allow to assist their leadership. And, of course, the purges. The New State must eliminate all those incapable of seeing the new future. Unanimity is the enemy of risk; the creation of unanimity is not.

Creative disorder, for all its positives, is disorder and will leave pain and failure in its wake. The socialist prefers their own power to create painless stability. And things that look like it, like stasis. And death.