Private Sector Narrative -- The New Beginning

Perhaps the narrative is changing. I know one thing -- the statist/progressive narrative has become incredibly dishonest. In order for the private sector narrative to break through, to become honest, to reveal the emptiness of statism, it has to be real -- not overstated and not understated. We can deal with real, and this is what makes the statists furious -- the straightforward rebuke of false charges, such as the inherent evil of capitalism, or the natural selfishness of people in general, or the absolute need for the state if there's to be a safty net. Smart people are insulted when the implication from statists is that people are too ignorant, too selfish or too needy to do without the state's superior wisdom and guidance. It's true that many people have never read Rawls, Nozick, Sandel, or don't know Buckley from Bozo, but that's not necessary -- and it's true that individuals have short-term, immediate needs and they don't perpetually make decisions based on the greater good -- and, it's true that some people have needs they can't meet using their own resources -- but, it doesn't follow that statism is the answer. 

 

No, we can say -- "Hold it, this is not necessarily true." The state no longer controls the narrative -- people are waking up, thinking for themselves and making decisions. The state becomes nervous when the private sector begins to reason, to resist and to individuate. The state would rather control group-think so that people are malleable, so that people go along with the plan, so that people believe the statist narrative. Notice how town hall protesters were written off as mobs controlled by far right organizations -- the state is fearful of people thinking for themselves -- this can't be!

 

Yes, it can be. The private sector is powerful, diverse and capable of thinking and acting and solving problems. It's been called spontaneous order, an order arising from millions of people acting and choosing in freedom, creating an interconnected, complex and greater mind that no group of technocrats can understand and manipulate -- at least not when people embrace freedom of choice, and act. Great ideas and innovations come from the interactions of free people. It's only when statists force their restricted visions on everyone that we begin to see conformity and fear of risk and confusion from not knowing what changes will come next.

 

We live in communities across the nation -- we know deep down that we're capable of charity and growth and prosperity and happiness when challenged to work together to make things happen. The narrative of weak, ignorant, oppressed and dependent citizens saved by the beneficent state is a joke. Get out of the way, state -- there's a new story to be told.

 

The fact is that with the right limitations placed on government power, people can work together to build their futures, and that they can help one another along the way. It's in the process of free interaction that solutions are found to problems, not central planning and social engineering. In the information age we are empowered more than ever to share ideas, to understand different ideas and cultures, to work out moral dilemmas and grow as a people, not only nationally, but globally. The private realm freed from the clutches of arrogant technocrats will create a new paradigm in which people take control of their lives, their finances, their communities, and their government -- making government reponsive to limited needs, not unchained and over-reaching. This is a vision, but I believe it will happen. We've come too far in America to become a third rate nation drifting into dependence and subservience -- there's too much creative energy and too much libertarian spirit to allow devolution into stagnation and dull submissiveness.

 

The new narrative is the story of a successful people who once again beat back domination and keep freedom alive so that following generations build on the innovation and progress. We can't get to the future through central planning and legislation -- we'll get there through experimenting, through free-thinking and reason, through developing solutions to societal problems so that everyone has a shot to find their niche and build their dreams, and through finding alternatives to wars, dependence, violence, crime, hatred and racism, better ways to deal with one another in community as integrated individuals. There's a spiritual aspect to the private realm which is a mystery to those with a statist mentality -- it's based in liberty and human interaction unspoiled by the petty designs of politicians and bureaucrats, and this spiritual aspect is the bond that moves free people beyond dependence to interdependence, prosperity, understanding and appreciation of art, depth of soul, higher planes of thought, a sharper, more confident vision of the future, a willingness to share, to build, to innovate, to love and find paths to peace. All along the way we make mistakes and ugly realities challenge our humanity, but as long as the libertarian spirit is alive, we will find ways to improve, to change, to grow and to amend.