Una delle migliori critiche allo stato assistenziale:
"Di recente ho chiesto alla bambina del mio amico cosa volesse fare da grande.
Lei ha detto che voleva diventare il presidente degli Stati Uniti.
Entrambi i suoi genitori, democratici liberali, erano lì in piedi, così le ho chiesto: «Se tu fossi presidente, quale sarebbe la prima cosa che faresti?»
Bene, lei rispose: «Darei cibo e case a tutti i senzatetto». I suoi genitori raggianti.
«Wow, che obiettivo meritevole», le dissi, «ma non devi aspettare di essere presidente per farlo.
Vedi, puoi venire a casa mia proprio adesso, tagliare l’erba, estirpare le erbacce e spazzare il mio vialetto, e ti pagherò cinquanta dollari.
Poi ti porterò al negozio di alimentari dove quel senzatetto passa il tempo, e tu puoi dargli i cinquanta dollari da usare per il cibo e una casa nuova».
Lei ci ha riflettuto sopra per qualche secondo, poi mi ha guardato dritto negli occhi e ha chiesto: «Perché il senzatetto non viene qui a fare il lavoro, e tu puoi semplicemente pagargli i cinquanta dollari?»
Ho detto: «Benvenuto nel Partito Repubblicano».
I suoi genitori ancora non mi parlano." ☠️💀
Ronald Reagan
#socialism #communism
On the morning of June 13, 1944, a single German tank rolled into the flank of a British armored column outside a Norman town called Villers-Bocage and, in about fifteen minutes, tore the head off an entire elite division. The man commanding it was Michael Wittmann, and it is probably the most famous single tank action in history.
Wittmann was already a celebrated tank ace by 1944, a veteran of the Eastern Front where he had run up a huge score of Soviet tanks knocked out, and he wore the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. In Normandy he commanded a company of Tiger tanks, the heavy, thickly armored German tanks with the long, deadly 88 millimeter gun that could kill an enemy tank from far beyond the range at which they could hurt him.
That morning the British 7th Armoured Division, the famous Desert Rats, were driving to seize Villers-Bocage and push behind the German line. A long column of their tanks and armored vehicles halted along the road, crews relaxed, some brewing tea, unaware that Tigers were nearby. Wittmann, in a single Tiger, saw the strung-out column and did not wait for support. He attacked it alone.
He rolled along the flank of the stationary British column and destroyed it methodically, one vehicle after another. He knocked out the tanks at the front and the rear to trap the rest on the road, then worked down the line, brewing up Cromwell tanks, Sherman Fireflies, scout tanks, and half-tracks that could not maneuver or bring their guns to bear in time. In roughly a quarter of an hour his one tank destroyed something on the order of a dozen or more tanks plus around fifteen personnel carriers and a couple of anti-tank guns, before his Tiger was finally disabled and he escaped on foot.
His attack shattered the British thrust and helped throw the whole operation into disorder, costing the Desert Rats heavily in men and machines. It made Wittmann a national hero in Germany. He was killed in his Tiger less than two months later, in August 1944, during the fighting as the Normandy front collapsed. But the fifteen minutes at Villers-Bocage put him permanently into the history of armored warfare.
The Nuclear Family is a Technology of Western Civilization – So It Needs to Be Destroyed With All the Others.
The nuclear family is not a natural unit. It is a technology – the most successful child-rearing, wealth-transmitting, civilization-building technology ever developed. And like every other Western technology that works, it is currently being systematically dismantled.
1. Every society in history has organized reproduction and child-rearing somehow. The Eastern clan, the tribe, the loyalty network – these are the alternatives. They work, up to a point, for the societies that run on them. They produce strong internal solidarity and fierce external competition. They also produce nepotism over meritocracy, loyalty over competence, the network over the individual. Low-trust societies stay small and family-based – unable to build the large institutions, the corporations, the rule of law that require trust between strangers. The nuclear family is the Western solution: small enough to invest maximally in children, open enough to produce citizens who can cooperate beyond the clan.
2. It is a technology in the precise sense: a solution to a problem, developed through trial and error over millennia, encoding accumulated wisdom that is not immediately visible to those who inherit it. It aligned incentives with extraordinary precision – the man invested in children he was certain were his, the woman had a committed partner for the most vulnerable years, the children had two adults with maximum skin in the game. And crucially: it introduced a free market for mating rather than arranged marriage. Individuals chose their partners – which meant attraction, compatibility, and genuine commitment rather than clan negotiation. The most intimate human bond brought into the competitive, meritocratic framework that produces everything else the West does well.
3. The attack follows the standard pattern. Reframe the technology as oppression. Celebrate the alternatives as liberation. Restructure the incentives – welfare systems that replace the husband, legal systems that make marriage a liability for men, cultural systems that mock the committed father. Then watch the institution dissolve.
4. The data is not ambiguous. Children raised by married biological parents outperform children from every other arrangement on every measurable outcome. This is one of the largest and most replicated findings in social science. The nuclear family is not one lifestyle choice among many equivalent options. It is the arrangement that produces the best human beings at scale. Which is precisely why it had to go.
5. The deepest damage is not measurable. The nuclear family was the primary transmission mechanism of civilization – values, habits, language, culture, and identity passed from one generation to the next in the most intensive possible environment. Destroy this transmission mechanism and you don’t just produce worse outcomes for individuals. You break the chain. The torch cannot change hands if the hands are gone.
6. The replacement is the state. When the family dissolves, the state expands to fill the functions the family performed. This is not a coincidence. It is the design. Tocqueville described it: the soft despotism that replaces every horizontal bond with a vertical dependency on the government shepherd. The nuclear family was the primary horizontal bond. Its dissolution is the prerequisite for the complete vertical dependency the administrative state requires.
7. The nuclear family is not a conservative preference or a religious requirement. Defend it not because it is traditional. Defend it because it works – and because what is offered in its place doesn’t. The clan and the tribe produce loyalty. The administrative state produces dependency. The nuclear family, with its free market for mating and its maximum investment in the next generation, produces citizens. That is the one thing the system replacing it cannot afford to produce.