Determinism, Government, and Social Justice

"Dictatorship and determinism," wrote Ayn Rand, "are reciprocally reinforcing

corollaries: if one seeks to enslave men, one has to destroy their reliance on the
validity of their own judgments and choices—if one believes that reason and
volition are impotent, one has to accept the rule of force.
“Representation Without Authorization,” The Ayn Rand Letter, I, 21, 1

Today, we see the spectacle of a federal government nearing totalitarian power

over society. It seeks to re-create the nation in its own image--green, "socially
just", ignoring the power of the individual and his right, both Constitutional and
natural, to empower his own will; and it is doing so by giving us cause to
relinquish our reliance on the validity of our own judgments and choices.

It is telling us that General Motors and Chrysler no longer know how to manage
their own companies, because in a world where they naturally lost their share of
the market to competition, they also lost money when a disaster struck the economy
after government interference in that economy.

Of course, the government has interfered in the capitalist economy almost from the
beginning of our nation's founding. But once it became large enough to be a real
force, then the concept of capitalism was replaced by the concept of the "mixed"
economy. But no one calls it that.

They still call it capitalism, and so when this mixed economy fails because the
capitalists have lost control over their own capital, lost it to bureaucrats who
were not seeking to protect capital but rather to protect special interests from
the capitalists, then the bureaucrats could claim the capitalists were incompetent
of maintaining a healthy economy. It isn't "socially just" to allow a few
incompetent money mongers to destroy everything for everyone.

The real capitalists knew better, but the majority of people alive today believe
that the government has proved "capitalism" is the special interest who must be
shackled and told how to manage its own affairs; when the fact is, it has been
shackled for so long it no longer knows how to do what it is supposed to do.

It is supposed to say no to government interference, relying on the validity of

its own choices based on objective market values. No such values can exist when a
mixed economy by definition is subjective.

And since the government can now make the claim that "health care" is inefficient
and have that backed up by the health care industry climbing naked into bed with
it, "the people" are beginning to believe that reason is impotent---when it is not
governed.

When a new piece of electronics hits the market, it is always expensive at first.
Look at the price of the IPhone, which now has dropped by more than 60%. The first
real laptop computer for under $200 is being advertised heavily on TV by a major
wireless internet carrier who sells that laptop.

So when a new piece of medical equipment, or new medicines, hit the market, they
are always expensive. The difference is, there are not hundreds of thousands of
hospitals rushing out to buy the new equipment, and the meds are not immediately
prescribed to millions of people, so there is no reason for the price to come
down.

Yet, everyone who gets sick and can be helped by the new equipment want it used on
them, and they then complain about the cost of health care, and they equate it
with health care itself. There is nothing wrong with health care. There is
something wrong with everyone wanting the best and the most expensive procedures
used on them, while complaining about the costs.

"Social justice" is a form of alleviating the effects of determinism, but it's all
smoke and mirrors. Determinism doesn't exist, but if the philosophers can get you
to believe it does, then they have power over everything and everyone, including
government policy, because it is they who taught the policy wonks everything they
know.

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