Freedom Isn't Easy, Nor Should It Be

I recently encountered the following meme on antisocial media:

 

The problem here is several fold.

Firstly, I reject the gratuitously ignorant employment of "hate". Hate may be the strongest word/concept in all of human experience, yet people use it casually as has been the case here. This is a grave error.

I, for example, hate nobody. If I hated something or someone, I would find and destroy it. That is what "hate" is to me. It is not to be taken or used lightly, save in situations where the parties in question know each other well enough and know by context that the use is made in purely humorous terms. Tiny amounts of hatred go a very long way - a truth that is readily observable every day that we live.

Next, the author of this mini-diatribe ignores not only the essentials of what I am assuming is the tacit call to freedom, but also the statistical truth about mean humanity.

Freedom requires much - nay EVERYTHING - difficult to a man. It requires:

1. Strong intellect
2. Proper smarts
3. Raw, steadfast courage
4. A steady, proper moral basis
5. Vast generosity

Without these in a great plurality sufficient to force the lesser men, the Weakmen, into compliance with all that is right, proper, and good between individuals, the freedom purported to be sought by those who presume to call themselves "anarchist" cannot be attained for so much as a fleeting moment, much less maintained over long stretches spanning generations.

The mean man is a beast, whether by nature or training, the net difference an irrelevance. It is the duty of the Superior Man to bring the Weakman into line with proper behavior in accord with the Principles of Proper Human Relations. In time, those Weakmen of a fundamentally sound character will learn and come to love the proprieties of good relations between human beings. Those Weakmen of a degenerate nature will never accept the shining path and must therefore be held feet to the fire to ensure they do not stray as they are typically wont to do. And of those, the tiny minority who steadfastly refuse to toe the lines of proper behavior will either be pent into cages, or sent into the Void, and good riddance.

This is the only way to achieve and hold on to liberty. Anything less, regardless of how well intended to eliminate the chafe and burn of correction, will fail. When dealing with beasts, one must see clearly, understand the nature of that with which one is dealing, and move forward to corral and countervail that which if treated more gently would run roughshod over the Good for the sake of their base impulses. That is the sad and perhaps tragic reality as it now stands. But I believe that the mean human being can be taught to accept and love proper relations. As for those who will not, remedies exist and should not be spared, however regrettable their use may prove. The bottom line is this: bringing a nation to a state of proper freedom is no mean feat. So monumental a task is it, that to date it has never been achieved. The America of the early 19th century is about as close has humanity has ever come, and even then the promise of liberty was evaded, the result accepted, and downhill has it been ever since. Becoming a free land is only the beginning of liberty. Remaining a free land is the truly magnificent and fatiguing work, for it is all day, every day without even the least stint. Anywhere that a door to tyranny is left ajar, no matter how imperceptibly, a would-be tyrant will immediately attempt to insinuate himself. And if and when that happens, Superior Men must act instantly and without equivocation to deliver the unmistakable responses required to squelch any hint of so much as the notion of the idea of trespass upon the rightful prerogatives of free human beings. Scoundrels must be given harsh lessons in the consequences of violation. Those who repeatedly offend should either be exiled from the society of free brethren, or killed outright as threats to the integrity and safety of all.

Anything less invites and entices precisely that which we now so thoroughly enjoy: raw, bald-faced, unmitigated tyranny. Sic Semper Tyrannis. Until next time, please accept my best wishes.