How many spin-offs of the Michael Crichton classic are there? Five, including the installment this past weekend? I finished watching "Jurassic World," just before writing this. To get straight to the point, it struck me as analogous to communism/socialism, and not because of its stab at capitalism, in general, and the entertainment industry specifically. Here's why.
Most are probably familiar with the basic story, so please indulge me as I repeat what has been repeatedly repeated for over 20 years. Whether a tyrannosaurus, or andominus, rex, the story always revolves around a giant, savage beast; ready to consume all in its path, either for food, or to dominate. There are smaller, but equally vicious, animals. Not large, or strong, enough to compete with the alpha, but the cunning stuff of children's nightmares.
The park / abandoned island / revised, and "improved," theme park is either hoped to be an innovative attraction, or adventurous hunt. Like going for rhinoceros on an African savanna, or confusing one's personal obsession with a benefit for mankind. Now that I've recapped what everyone already knows, here's how it is analogous to communism/socialism.
The same things, with only slight modification, are tried over and over again with no real lessons learned. Each successive "visionary" arrogantly thinks things will go much better with him in charge. The tyrannosaur, or andominus, rex is large government, which the oxy-moronic, idiotic geniuses deny, over and over, will wreak ruin on all in its domain. To the latest park executive's credit, he at least doesn't deny that it has been tried before, unlike many academics that claim that communism has never been tested........for some strange reason. Can we all spell F - O - O - L?
Like Jurassic Park / World, every time communism / socialism is tried, there is the inevitable blood bath, and smoking ruin left to crumble into the ash-heap of history. People writhing, and painfully crawling, in a desperate attempt to survive the disaster. Rotting bodies littering the landscape, if they weren't eaten in a single bite.
Like the park, it's stupid to think that the leviathan state can be used to benefit humanity. It has been attempted many times, and the result is always the same. What's a famous definition of insanity that mentions repeated identical effort, while expecting a different result?
The American founders learned the lesson, and without velociraptor-like IRS, and EPA, agents to hunt down, and consume, lives one at a time. When will we learn from them?
"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. "
- George Washington
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