The capitalistic systems provide the necessities of life, along with a lot of geegaws, very effectively. Some of the people involved become wealthy as they establish monopolies in things like catsup, mustard, electric blankets, chicken, or potatoes.
Personalities that tend toward Communism don’t like this process. They see a few rich people getting richer and know that, under any system in which meritocracy prevails, there’s no way for them to get that far ahead.
Besides, they quickly discover that there’s not much money in bitterness. Whatever’s there is already being soaked up by the Michael Moores, Al Gores, and a handful of wealthy, well-positioned whiners. That causes even more bitterness among the less able of their ilk, and prompts deep desires to overthrow the system.
When enough bitter people get together, they will try to replace the existing establishment with their own half-baked ideas. If they take over, their lunacies will become crystallized into perpetually flawed government agencies and departments. It is impossible for any such organizations to work better than the minds who created them. Therefore, shortages of necessities soon appear, accompanied by simultaneous surpluses of uselessness, like the above mentioned notion that we our “nitrogen footprints are too large”.
As their systems fail, hate, and immediately reject, any thoughts of letting the smarter people solve problems that their own bitterness and anger has left them too unhinged to handle. Instead of solving the problems, the angry and bitter work from the other end of the predicament.
“It’s not a problem with our systems. The problem is, there are too many people.”, they eternally conclude. Their immense vanity convinces them that their systems would work, if only there weren’t so many pesky people who claimed to need so many things.
“We need to get rid of as many of them as we can!” is about the only solution that such minds can find. So, the trains start running to the gulags. Firing squads are unleashed. Soon, there are fewer people. No matter how many fewer people there are, their systems never work. Rarely, as with James Jones, do their systems work so flawlessly that all need for sound thinking is obviated.
Despite endless examples of their own, and similar failures, such angry, bitter personalities still won’t let the smarter people be free to solve the problems, with one exception:
When they, themselves, get very sick they will immediately go to some freer country where medical doctors know more, and are more intelligent, than the doctors in their own, incompetence-glorifying realms.
