Und noch einer.......

verfasst von Miesespeter, 23.04.2003, 00:22

-->Da war ich doch zu misstrauisch. Es gibt ihn noch.....


Social failures, misunderstood geniuses, lawyers without clients, writers without readers, doctors without patients, professors
ill-paid, graduates without employment, clerks whose employers disdain them for their insufficiency, puffed-up university
instructors-these are the natural adepts of Socialism. In reality they care -,-cry little for doctrines. Their dream is to create by
violent means a society in which they will be the masters.


Perhaps it is above all through its apostles that Socialism may be able to triumph for a moment. Only these enthusiasts possess
the zeal indispensable to create a faith, the magic power which has at several periods transformed the world. They are skilled in
the art of persuasion ; an art simple at once and subtle, whose actual laws no book has ever taught. They know that the crowd has
a horror of doubt ; that they know none but extreme sentiments ; energetic affirmation, energetic denial, intense love, or violent
hatred; and they know how to evoke these sentiments, and how to develop them..

Whatever beliefs have once reigned in the world whether Christianity, Buddhism, or Islam, or merely some political theory, such
as was predominant at the time of the Revolution -they have only been propagated by the efforts of that particular class of
converts we call apostles. Hypnotised by the belief that has conquered them, they are ready for every sacrifice that may
propagate it, and finally have no object in life but to establish its empire. They are demi-halluncinés, and their study is the
especial province of mental pathology, but they have always played a stupendous part In the history of the world.


Torquemada, Bossuet, Marat, Robespierre considered themselves to be gentle philanthropists, dreaming of nothing but the
happiness of humanity. Philanthropists, whether social, religious, or political, all belong to the same family. They regard
themselves in all good faith as the friends of humanity, and have always been its most pernicious enemies. They are more
dangerous than wild beasts.


Accustomed, by minute regulation, to forecast, to a minute almost, the manner in which their time is employed, these pupils are
suitably prepared, for the rest of their lives, for the uniformity of thought and action necessitated by State Socialism. They will
always have an intense horror of originality, of all personal effort, a profound suspicion of all that is not specialised and
catalogued, and a somewhat envious but always reverent admiration of hierarchies and of gold braid. All tendencies to initiative
or to individual effort will in them be utterly extinguished. They may succeed in rebelling now and again, just as they rebelled at
college when their preceptors were too severe, but they will never, as rebels, be either disquieting or persistent.


The Socialists of every school are loth to admit the importance of intellectual superiority. Their high priest Marx understands by
the term work nothing but manual labour, and relegates the spirit of invention, capacity, and direction, which has nevertheless
transformed the world, to a second place.
This hatred of intelligence on the part of the Socialists is well founded, for it is precisely this intelligence that will prove the
eternal obstacle on which all their ideas of equality will shatter themselves. Let us suppose that by a measure analogous to the
Edict of Nantes -- a measure which the Socialists, were they the masters, would very soon be driven to enforce-all the
intellectual superiority of Europe-all the scientists, artists, great manufacturers, inventors, skilled workmen, and so forth, were
expelled from civilised countries, and obliged to take refuge in a narrow territory at present almost uninhabited-Iceland, for
example. Let us further suppose that they departed without a halfpenny of capital. It is nevertheless impossible to doubt that this
country, barren as it is supposed to be, would soon quickly become the first country in the world for civilisation and wealth.

There are plenty of hands ; it is the heads that are a little scarce.



3. THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF THE UNADAPTED.
To the host of the unfit created by competition and degeneration must be added, as regards the Latin nations, the degenerates
produced by artificial incapacity. These artificial failures are made at great expense by our colleges and universities. The host of
graduates, licentiates, instructors, and professors without employment will one day, perhaps, constitute one of the most serious
dangers against which society will have to defend itself.

The men of each period live by a certain number of political, religious, or social ideas, which are regarded as indisputable
dogmas, of which they must necessarily suffer the effects. One of the most powerful of such ideas to-day is that of the
superiority to be derived from the theoretical instruction given in our colleges. The schoolmaster and the university professor,
rather looked down upon of old, have suddenly become the great modern fetiches. It is they who are to remedy the inequalities of
nature, efface the distinctions of class, and win our battles for us.

The reason is very clear. Our theoretical education, instilled from our text-books, prepares the pupil for absolutely nothing but
public functions, and makes the pupil absolutely unfitted for any other career, so that he is obliged, in order to live, to make a
furious rush toward the State-paid employments. But as the number of candidates is immense, and the number of places very
small, the great majority fail, and find themselves without any means of existence-outcasts, in fact, and naturally insurgents.

But why this obstinate pursuit of official employment? Why do not the army of unemployed graduates fall back on industry,
agriculture, commerce, or the manual trades?
For two reasons. Firstly, because they are totally incapable, on account of their theoretical education, of performing any but the
easy duties of bureaucrats, magistrates, or professors. But even then they might recommence their education by apprenticing
themselves. They do not do so-and this is the second reason-on account of the insurmountable prejudice against manual labour,
industry, and agriculture, which is to be met with in all the Latin nations and nowhere else.
The Latin nations, in fact, in spite of deceptive appearances, possess a temperament so little democratic that manual labour,
which is very highly esteemed by the English aristocracy, is by them regarded as humiliating or even dishonourable. The
humblest Government clerk, the smallest professor, the humblest of copyists, regards himself as a personage by the side of a
mechanic, a foreman, a fitter, a farmer, who none the less will often bring infinitely more intelligence, reason, and initiative to
bear in his calling than does the clerk or the professor in his.

In affixing its contempt to all manual work, and all that is not theory, words, or
phrases, and in making its pupils believe that their diplomas confer on them a kind of intellectual nobility, which will place them
in a superior caste, and give them access to wealth, or at least to comfort, the university has played a lamentable part. After long
and costly studies the graduate is forced to recognise that he has acquired no elevation of mind, that he has by no means escaped
from his caste, and that his life is to begin again. In the face of the time lost, of their faculties blunted for all useful work, of the
perspective of the humiliating poverty which awaits them, how should they not become insurgents....

WE have just seen how the special conditions of the age have immensely multiplied the crowd of the unadapted. This multitude
of incapable, disinherited, or degenerate persons is a grave danger to civilisation. United in a common hatred of the society in
which they can find no place, they demand nothing but to fight against it. They form an army ready for all revolutions, having
nothing to lose and everything to gain-at least, in appearance. Above all, this army is ready for all works of destruction. Nothing
is more natural than the sentiment of hatred which these outcasts entertain for a civilisation that is too complicated for them, and
to which they are perfectly sensible that they can never
adapt themselves. They only wait for the occasion to rise to the assault.



Das war 1899.........



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