by Roberto Diego

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Barbarism is a negative, an absence of knowledge and institutional control. Its best representatives have characterized their reigns by plunder, murder and rape. They leave only destruction and decline in their passing. Their social components leave no enduring features because there is little worth preserving. The history from which we are supposed to learn is the history of barbarism, the history of Darius, Attila, and Hitler, the history that says if you rule over men, you can take what you want.

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One issue that is little understood today, and much less discussed, is the theory relating to why men join society. This may seem like a strange way to frame the question, but in effect, each man does make a decision, once he understands the nature of the particular society into which he is born, to either accept its precepts or reject them. And indeed, it is the responsibility of every man to understand the fundamental factors that make up his/her society. Various statements are heard in contemporary literature naming the division of labor and the benefits derived from it as the major reasons for society; but little is heard concerning the nature of man, his means of survival, and how his nature relates to an organized society. Man is a creature that survives by means of his mind, especially by his ability to learn and use knowledge in order to determine correct action. A valid society is one that allows this process the freedom to function. It does this by protecting each man in the pursuit of life, happiness and survival. If it does not protect this, if instead it thwarts man’s efforts, it is not a valid society and it would be better to live in primitive nature. There can be no more important issue except that society either protects man’s fundamental rights or violates them.

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Two such evils for the altruist are productiveness and pride. They are infused with an aura of evil and dirtiness, a baseness that can be dealt with only by means of punishment and ostracism. This is why the altruist puts so much emphasis on humility and poverty as virtues. Indeed, it is the attitude of altruists that anything done for personal gain is evil. That is why they want to preserve the idea that virtue consists of self-sacrificial dedication. Their denial or avoidance of virtues that do not require self-sacrifice creates for mankind a blind spot of sorts, one that leads men to conclude that there is no other way of looking at society and life except through the altruists' visors. Their view of man as a being of misery and decadence justifies their view of society as a tribal institution. If man is such, then they feel it is proper to use him, to make him do what is right in spite of himself.

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Altruism’s proponents have defined the good and innocent as consisting merely of ignorance. It defines the level of pre-knowledge for children as indicative of good and applies moral worth only to the childhood level of intellect. Further, it identifies only the ignorant in human society as good. For the morally innocent adult, for the knowledgeable adult and for the educated, it reserves the roles of exploiter and undeserving. In other words, all one needs to be morally superior for altruism is to be worthless.

These are the views that create the double-sided coin that is altruism. One side says that the poor shall inherit the earth, that they are the goal of one's life, that alleviating their suffering is an imperative; the other side says that man is evil by nature and should not presume to be clean and guilt-free on this earth. The first side of this coin says that the only good is to be worthless. The other side says that the only evil is to be successful. If this is not hatred of man, one cannot conceive of a more evil method of destroying self-esteem. That these ideas actually provide a pillar for our culture is an indication of the contradiction that forms the common manner of sabotaging society.

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In the U.S., for instance, millions are wasted and stolen annually while politicians discuss only the “goodness” of the goal that is never achieved. It is a con game that is performed with the ultimate in altruistic self-righteousness. Government spending programs are supposedly undertaken for the sake of those who cannot help themselves yet who are seldom benefited. Under attack are those who help themselves by being successful and provide the booty, sentenced to be punished for success (and who are ridiculed for trying to defend themselves against the theft and waste). The result: today virtually every government agency is woefully corrupt and massively wasteful – while every failure is swept under the rug because the goal that is never achieved has been deemed “good.” This is moral dualism and altruism at their most successful. As was the case with Darius, this scheme benefits only those with power and control – not the citizens, who like the productive Persians, are left the with the argument that somehow they are doing good by feeding or subjugating some savage tribe on the other side of the Mediterranean.

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When a society is ruled by laws that violate the right to property, then the safety and security found in society disappear and there is no reason to participate in such a society (except that one decides to struggle to make it free). It is as if the jungle had reclaimed the infrastructure. In such a society, a man knows not whom to fear so he fears all. His actions become short-range because a thief, heavy taxation, inflation or new government regulations threaten his future production. And slowly the only property defended by government is government property.

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