The guillotine is the most effective and humane way to execute someone. It severs the head and brain from the body; it’s quick and foolproof. Would that society’s ongoing attack on its own brain were so quickly effectuated. There would be an almost instantaneous regression back to the mindless miasma with which so many are comfortable, and that would be that. Unfortunately, the execution of creativity, invention, innovation, enterprise, and logic is death by countless brain excisions—each deeper than the previous one.
Pick your candidate for what, singly or in combination, causes the collapse of present civilization: debt, war, pollution, moral rot, statism, or any of the other ills besetting the world. They all have their champions. Rarely if ever mentioned is the effort to stymie the best human minds. It’s not new, having gone on since humanity made the evolutionary leap. The malevolent and malicious recognize that if the mind is threatened, persecuted, and ultimately, stopped, disaster takes care of itself. Of course this is suicide. but that’s precisely what the malevolent and malicious are after (see “Life, or Death?” SLL).
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