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The Corporatist Barbarians are at the door - time for Ireland to save Europe again
Part One
There really is not much difference between corporatism and socialism. The former is a carve up by big business, big unions, big Govt, big farmers, and any military/industrial complex; the latter attempts to be redistributionist, primarily through the taxation system and to bed down non elected bodies that will shape society in line with an ideology of ‘equality’. Both isms by necessity must be activist in the area of Education, the next generation must always look to the State, thus the need to form little socialists, little corporatists, made in their own image and likeness.
Those on the Yes to Lisbon side are by and large corporatists or socialists. They are dangerous, not intentionally so, but because they cannot spot the deficit in the political market place, that they are now a kind thought police, and that it is perfectly alright to almost compel us vote the way they want us to vote on what will in effect be the same Treaty. They cannot see anything sinister in the fact that the E.U itself though various mechanisms, fora and political parties, will make sure the Yes side is better resourced, and that there is nothing wrong in a lie that attempts to link our recession and recovery prospects to Lisbon. Most on the Yes side are wittingly or unwittingly aligned with internationalists and post nationalists who are quite happy to see our constitution neutered, or supreme court sterile, and our Dail impotent.
Also for them hijacking language is very important and using pejorative labels is very necessary. It allows them to shut down debate, so that those of us on the no side are extreme left wing, or neo fascist, or rightwing, or conspiracy theorists, or sinister groups, or reactionaries, or fundamentalists or neo cons or capitalists, or as one columnist put it, spoilt and thankless children who have lost the run of themselves.
Confucius once said that one of the first signs of the decline of culture is when language loses its meaning, Orwell warned of it in 1984. Thankfully the Yes side failed to win one crucial battle, trying to get the Treaty known in the popular culture as the Reform Treaty. What a nice sounding word ‘reform’ is, only it didn't work. The name that stuck is the one that told the truth, a treaty that came about as a result of an oligarchic sleight of hand, approved by key players at a meeting in Lisbon.
The No to Lisbon side is primarily made up of the little people, with very little resources, (or if they're lucky or unlucky might have someone who comes on the scene temporarily with a lot of dosh, only to depart the scene again!). Whilst those on the yes side by and large feed off the very process they logically must defend and promote; a State and Supra state that will continue to give such groups money and resources: civil society groups, trade unions, big employers, big political parties, supplicant media scribes, most of the intelligentsia, the Arts, NGOs, European parties, etc. They form such a critical mass that Europe will have to socially implode before its various Governments have no choice but to take the action that is necessary to stop its decline and fall .
Corporatism has had many guises, Mercantism in France, the military, junker and industrial alliance in Bismarck's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Nazi Germany or Tito's Yugoslavia. We have had our own 'benign' corporatism here, via the social partnership, the spoils agreed among an oligarchy with so called civil society groups bought on board to give the semblance on one big happy family with their crumbs off the table. But increased social welfare and minimum wages cannot compensate for living in the most expensive country in Europe, with the most bloated yet inefficient and costly public services in a time of community and spiritual poverty, of family breakdown, violence, drugs, and cultural decay, of alienation
Whilst socialism today has taken on the social market or social democrat model, it is again a form of corporatism but is also obsessed with control of the Education so that children become good citizens, know their rights and obligations as consumers and producers, but have very little sense of traditional virtue and duty.
Marx knew Education was vital if the revolution was to take place and social democrats still concur with him on that, since education can in effect become a kind of brainwashing, and in that sense a true socialist must be as doctrinaire as an ultramontane Catholic so that more little socialists are reared.
Fascism, Socialism and Corporatism all involve a State invasion of the private sphere, all are keen to see the State take over from the family as the primary carer in society. This necessitates the socialisation and education of the population to an extent that defamilialisation takes place and whatever their God, a belligerent Fatherland, an intolerant Equality agenda, or a soulless consumption, that God becomes paramount.
It is a God that people foolishly think can provide all their needs, that it can become the carer from cradle to grave, that it can compensate us when things go wrong, that it can pick up the pieces after the mistakes we make ourselves because extended family and community are gone.
In today’s Europe and Ireland be it corporatist or social democratic, be it centre left or centre right, the new bible is equality, an equality that includes a seriously flawed notion of gender, that it is more a social construct than a biological one.
Its catechism is cradle to grave welfare, more rapid socialisation and indoctrination of kids, and the shelling out of any traditional institutions that are a bulwark against the State becoming the Sun in whose benevolent light we can all shine.
Big business supports it since it means the supply of labour and the wage rate can be kept low, a cheerleader was Mary Robinson who said women who choose to be a carer at home were copping out. And so IBEC, the unions, the intellectual left, have colluded to bring about a situation where there is no such thing anymore as a family wage, helped no doubt by our needs and expectations being too high in our wanabee culture.
Families are fast becoming collections of autmonous units, he has his money and she has hers, the autonomous sub units, the children, have their rights and welfare guaranteed by the State, who more than often is expected to pick up the tab when Mum or Dad or both, behave badly. Mother and Father though are but progenitors within the family, turning out the future consumers and producers, only it has gone too far, they're not ‘progenitating’ much anymore. 1.6 is as far as they’ll go.
The new bible tell us that the family based on marriage is but one option among equals, and that the advantaged and privileged position the state used to give marriage can now be offered to all, be they tentative, temporary or transitive arrangements, to suit a rainbow of tastes and desires, hetero or homo, bi or groupie, passing or permanent.
Sex education broken from the bondage of traditional morality, at first subtly, with the tacit submission of the new age Churches, becomes universally enforced as 'value' free so that our youth can be prepared and educated for the game of sex, necessary since marriage is not needed for sex anymore.
Children are sexualised and affronted by the culture at a younger and younger age while the fourth estate shriek on about paedophilia, oblivious to the vicarious paedophilia around them, the magazines, the music and fashion industry, the role models, the lining up our 11 years for a vaccination for strains for HPV that have by and large only come about since ‘sexual liberation’.
Reticence and restraint is repression and letting it all hang out is virtue. Not giving others the privileges previously reserved for marriage is hateful discrimination, even homophobic. (Try opposing Gay marriage here and you will be neg repped, by the same source a lot). Male and female embodiment crucial to mother and father gender roles is just not accepted as a given anymore, the unique male and female ways of loving in motherhood and fatherhood are deemed hangovers from an oppressive age, no longer needed for the emotional well being of the young, so we are told.
The new emphasis on 'Equality' which seeks to deny the unity and complimentarity of the sexes is Gospel while extreme environmentalism where humankind is seen as parasitic is the new religion, supported by the altruism of big philanthropists such as Bill Gates.
All share one thing in common, they see traditional religion as an obstacle to progress, they hate it with the vehemence Hitler hated the Jews. They will cite the usual red herrings about religious hate and sectarianism and conveniently ignore the horrors of Mao, Stalin, and Hitler, the ever ongoing two tribes wars sponsored by the superpowers, the horrors of dictatorships and oligarchies in South America, Africa and Asia, all respected members of that most revered of organisations, the U.N.
Every opportunity to accelerate the secularisation process, even if altruistically intended is seized. Thus the endemic and evil child abuse in religious institutions is now cited as a reason for the implementation of the convention on the rights of the child, which de facto makes the State the primary and arbitrary judge of child welfare, superior to the parents, even though the State also had some culpability in relation to that abuse.
Thus Ruiari Quinn is worried about rightwing Catholics taking over the boards of management of Catholic schools. Better let the State, the tax payer take them over, better have our own indoctrinators in charge is really what he is saying. (What is a rightwing Catholic Ruairi? Is it a pejorative term for any Catholic who supports the teachings of his Church?). He need not worry, the Catholic Colleges of Education have already secularised their schools anyway they are about as Catholic as a Maoist training camp.
Whatever the family unit, the nurturing role is increasingly contracted out across Europe to the impersonal State. The separation of procreation from the unitive aspect to the sexual act is complete. Marriage is now a shell institution emptied of its meaning and status. It is no longer needed for sex. It is no longer about a life long commitment between a man and a woman for the procreation and education of children.
We can all engage now in sexual adventuring, we can let it hang out, we can let the counsellors, and the therapists, and the psychologists and the State sort out our offspring, that is let them all help the child we had a 'right' to.
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Originally Posted by lapsedmethodist
