In Part VIII of this series, I introduced what I believe to be the only hope to turn America around and prevent it from becoming another Marxist nation-state — the Liberty Education Solution. The essence of such a revolution would be to teach people that only voluntary compassion is moral. Compulsory compassion is coercion, and coercion is always immoral.

Liberals insist that anyone who is against government handouts lacks compassion. But the fact is that one thing has nothing to do with the other. The most compassionate people I know are strictly opposed to the use of force (including the use of force for the purported purpose of helping the “truly needy”).

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To my way of thinking, there is only one solution that speaks to the very heart of how to resuscitate Western civilization without violating anyone’s rights. I refer to it as:

The Liberty Education Solution

Since the true cause of the disintegration of Western culture was a moral revolution, it seems logical to assume that the rise of another Western style civilization can be brought about only through another moral revolution. Such a revolution, of course, would have to be diametrically opposed to the notion that a person is entitled to anything he desires — but not necessarily to capitalism.

Nathaniel Branden underscores this point in his book Judgment Day: My Years With Ayn Rand when he quotes the late and very liberal Bennett Cerf, one-time president of Random House Inc.: “You have to throw welfare programs at people — like throwing meat to a pack of wolves — even if the programs don’t accomplish their alleged purpose and even if they’re morally wrong.”

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I ended Part I of this article by pointing out that trees are reborn each spring, live to the fullest in the summer, enter the twilight of their lives in the fall … then, finally, they seemingly die. But, in truth, the trees merely hibernate. It’s more like recycling than death — part of the circle of life.

Death is but an illusion. And not just for trees in the winter. When a human being dies, he, too, is recycled. Not one atom of his body is lost. The atoms are simply rearranged when the soul moves on. How are they rearranged? It’s not our job to figure that out. The Conscious Universal Power Source has it covered. As Deepak Chopra put it in his book Life After Death:

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In Part VI of this article, I discussed the Muddle Through Solution with regard to the question: Is it too late for Western civilization to be saved from the onset of a dictatorship? The conclusion I arrived at is that muddling through is not really a solution at all, but, rather, an escape from reality. So let’s take a look at two more possibilities:

The High Tech Solution

When the High Tech Solution emerged years ago, the theory behind it was that mankind was on the threshold of scientific and technological advances so enormous in scope that the producers of the Western world would soon be able to fulfill the desires of even the most GAVEC-prone non producers.

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For the Marxist, guilt is the handmaiden to envy. While the have nots march to the media’s envy drum, the haves are easy targets for guilt based manipulation. This, I believe, is what brings about the phenomenon of a George Soros, a Warren Buffet, or the modern-day Rockefeller clan.

It is no wonder that the middle class is the biggest loser during an economic crisis. As the false prosperity of many middle class people continues to disappear, they become more and more frustrated and increasingly vulnerable to envy provoking media stories. Yet, at the same time, the media subtly encourage them to feel guilty for living so much better than the lower class. The middle class is thus beset with both envy and guilt.

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In Part III of this article, I ended by pointing out that if it were not for inflation, taxation, subsidies, plunder laws, and other forms of government intervention in our economic system, many large companies would simply cease to exist — or, at the very least, they would cease to be large.

Take the banking industry, for example — please, take it! Banks “benefit” directly from the government’s redistribution schemes, because the more leeway they are given to inflate their supply of paper money, the more they can “earn” (in interest on money that does not really exist). Welcome to the world of bank failures.

But bankers are not alone in siphoning off the earnings of producers. Entire industries have grown up on a foundation of monetary inflation and redistribution laws. Where would Las Vegas be today if a whole generation of Americans had not been made to feel much wealthier than they are?

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Because both the art of repression and the art of bribery require so much subtlety to keep the have nots in place, governments are constantly vacillating between the two. Left wing dictatorships, while controlling the masses through brute force, like to create the impression they are benevolent. However, the skimpy food and minimal shelter they provide their citizens, along with the miserable and nonproductive jobs they force upon them, are but a charade.

As state workers used to put it in the good old days in communist Poland: “Whether you stand up or lie down, you get paid just the same.” Or, simply put: “The government pretends to pay us a wage, and we pretend to work.”

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Through the power of gradualism, the desires are rights mentality has become solidly entrenched in the American brain. As a result, the bribery approach has worked well for politicians, and they are not about to stop using it to their advantage. Long term, however, bribery does not work in a society founded on a political democracy, because people’s desires are infinite.

On the surface, this appears to be a pragmatic problem. At its heart, however, it is a moral issue — which is why political solutions won’t work. By moral issue, I’m talking about the broad acceptance of the absurd notion that if a person desires something, he has a moral right to it. Not one politician, not one media commentator, not one public figure has dared to attack this outrageous premise.

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When I was much younger, I thought of myself as the man in Neil Diamond’s song “Crunchy Granola Suite”: “And like a man with a tiger outside his gate, he not only couldn’t relax but he couldn’t relate.” Happily, my tiger doesn’t come around nearly as much anymore. I’m still pretty much of a recluse, but I am no longer alone. I have the trees … the wind … the sky … to keep me company. Life provides challenges — and life goes on.

Throughout much of my life, I paid little attention to the miracles that surrounded me. I was too busy thinking about business and money … too busy being annoyed by annoying people. Nature and I were perfect strangers. The tiger was always there … relentlessly pacing back and forth outside my gate. I concentrated on him so much that I had no time to think about the real world – the world that matters.

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