In the welfare state no good deed will go unpunished or how to create life at the bottom

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear”, wrote the 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke.

The welfare state is proof of the most fundamental management axiom that you can only manage what you measure. The dilemma lies in that they measure "ought" rather than what "is". If a senior bureaucrat were to actually measure what is and report her findings to the government she would likely be punished, for no good deed shall go unpunished should her report indicate that what ought to be isn't what has actually resulted thereby exposing the failure of the state's "ought" policies.

The welfare state is a system built on fairy tales just like the one "Justinflation" Trudeau has created. Therefore social progressivism requires an enormous wasteful input of resources and energy in a vain attempt to create a system which defies the laws of conservation of matter and energy and thermodynamic entropy. For this reason over Yuletide Norwegians were faced with a choice, either to eat or heat their homes.

And how do the oligarchs in charge of "ought" react to their policies' failures? Why by doubling down on their failed attempts to defy the laws of conservation of matter and energy and thermodynamic entropy of course. No amount of factual data will ever dissuade the ideologically possessed which is proof that their belief system is based upon faith alone and therefore is a religion which requires no demonstrable proof to sustain it.

Life at the Bottom | Theodore Dalrymple | Jordan B Peterson Podcast

On this episode of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast, Jordan is joined by Dr. Anthony Daniels or as you might know him, Theodore Dalrymple, which is his pen name. Dr. Anthony Daniels is a British writer and essayist. He is known for writing such pieces as Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, The Mandarins and the Masses, Not With a Bang With A Whimper, Spoiled rotten: The toxic cult of sentimentality, and The Terror of Existence. His columns in the Times, Spectator, and the Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Anthony Daniels and Jordan discussed a variety of topics relating to distinct differences in culture and mindset in the poor “Underclass” in Britain. They examine many stories from Dr. Daniel's time as a consulting physician in a prison and hospital in one of the poorest areas of London and draw conclusions on similarities in violence, domestic abuse, learned helplessness, education, monogamy, the disintegration of the family, and more.
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