Watching the baby has helped me understand the elites who want to take care of us.
The baby needs constant supervision because it doesn’t know what will hurt it. There are sharp corners and poisons all around the child and it doesn’t know it. A good parent looks out for the infant and guides its actions. Dangers are removed. Threats are neutralized. And the baby never knows.
Of course if you protect the child too much it will never learn about the law of gravity. He will never learn the frustration of failure that stimulates trying again. He will think that everything is easy. He will live in a bubble and never learn to think. That is the kind of parent that socialism provides.
Pain is a good teacher but some need more supervision than others. There are limits that are important but they should be designed to be removed as the child progresses. Training wheels are good on a child’s first bicycle but if they are never removed the child will never know the freedom a bicycle provides. It also adds the risk of riding in traffic surrounded by cars but that is part of the price of liberty. If you never take the plug guards out of the receptacle the child will never be able to access the miracle of electricity.
Socialism at its best wants to remove the chance of pain. At its worst it is just a desire to control that grows out of a sense of superiority.
Babies can be great teachers. We need to be better ones.
homo unius libri
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