The
movie (The Giver) beautifully demonstrates a fully-realized concept of what radical
egalitarianism could look like in practice. In fact, the community
could even be faulted for being too kind to egalitarians — the
beautiful, idealized world of peace and harmony has, in the movie,
existed for generations without falling prey to many of the easy faults
of conceived utopias. Everything is clean, the people content, all
obvious needs are provided. This idea that people can be perfectly
planned for gives credit to the idea of centralized planning in a way
that almost undermines the premise of the movie.
Of course all of the centralized planning comes at a cost: mandatory
injections remove emotion, choice, personal rights, and even color.
Essentially the community can only be perfect because people no longer
have a choice. The film fills in the gaps with flashes of color —
flashbacks of a world with color, choice, freedom, love. It also shows
in full color the downside — war, loss, pain and suffering. The
injections took away the ability to choose- which is ultimately what
makes us human.
Already,
the Harry Potter Alliance has begun to try to own the narrative of
another dystopia:
the
Hunger Games.
Rather than seeing the government as the enemy, the oddsinourfavor.org
website tries to claim the problems are due to “economic inequality”
rather than government interference. They are teaching young adults the
wrong message, and getting away with it because they aren’t being
called on it.
Ultimately, the plot is resolved when
(spoiler alert!)
.... the main protagonist returns choice to the people and
they can
finally choose for themselves. Color returns to the community, disaster
is averted and egalitarianism is finally seen for what it is — cruel
control without a conscience. The message is clear: a free people will
never allow their choice to be taken away. This is a crucial lesson —
if it can be owned and presented as such.
One of the big faults of the conservative movement is that it does not
often capitalize on narrative, and allows the left to fill in the gaps.
Recently, it was uncovered that a giant cabal of left-wing
organizations were organizing online in a Google Group called the
“Gamechanger Salon”. After some research, one reporter compiled a list
of identifiable members, where a group called the “Harry Potter
Alliance” was listed with 12 members — one of the most prominent groups
on the entire list. This Harry Potter Alliance lists the following as
their organizational purpose:
“Just
as Dumbledore’s Army wakes the world up to Voldemort’s return, works
for equal rights of house elves and werewolves, and empowers its
members, we: Work with partner NGOs in alerting the world to the
dangers of global warming, poverty, and genocide. Work with our
partners for equal rights regardless of race, gender, and sexuality.”
This egalitarian message demonstrates the exact kind of thinking that
would lead to the creation of a community like in The Giver. When a
society pushes for everything to be the same, people lose their power
of will and choice. The liberal fantasy world where the government has
the power to equalize everyone is also the fantasy world where
government has the power to remove all choice.
In practice, the push for “equal rights” becomes “equal outcomes,” as
with the class-war “99 percent” movement and failed “war on poverty,”
Personal choice is removed in the name of “global warming”, nationality
in the name of “genocide” and color in the name of “race, gender, and
sexuality”. It’s not hard to see why in this idealized world, you can’t
see color — everything is torn down to sameness in the name of
“equality.”
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