Utopia

I have a problem with college professors who remain safely hidden behind the ivy covered walls of academia and have never had to deal in the real world.  These are the same people, lacking life experience, who are teaching our children!  Is it any wonder there are so many student protests about our country’s involvement in international disputes?  “Peace not War” is what they preach to our children.  It’s a utopian and lofty ideal, but not realistic.

Utopia is a lonely place.  It can only exist where there is a solitary soul.  If there is more than one person, one of them will invariably have more than the other.  When that condition exists the weaker will covet the stronger and try to make conditions equal.  Maybe it’s a natural law like in the world of physics where everything tends to equilibrium, or maybe its just plain old greed, but in either case this state of equilibrium is the goal of commune-ism.

“All for one and one for all.”  It worked well for the Three Musketeers, but in the real world, liberalism taken to that extreme will not work!  Unless you are willing to give up what you have to anyone who asks for it, you will create dissention.  The minute you say “NO” to somebody you have established dissention and it will grow.  Your only hope at this point is your ability to defend yourself.

The same rules apply when human groups become larger.  There will always be at least two factions in any society, and they will only exist in harmony as long as the rules of civilization are in place and enforced.  Imagine, for a moment, what would happen if we were suddenly without laws or regulation.  Do you think there would be roving bands of thugs roaming around taking what they want?  You can count on it.  This is exactly what happened during the middle ages when the Romans pulled out of central Europe.

When human groups are large, they are called countries and the dissentions between them become wars.  Just like the roving bands of thugs, there is always a country ready to move in when they detect a weakness in their neighbor.  Witness the Japanese invasion of China in 1931 and 1937,

Japanese troops in Manchuria

the 1939 attack on Poland by the Germans,

German Blitzkrieg on Polish column

or the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950.

Fighting in the streets of Seoul, South Korean

  The list is long and examples permeate modern history, but the point is the same.  If you are not willing to fight for what you have then you will not have it long.