Why Xiii

By John Weyland

This book contains seventy short chapters. They are all meant to say something new about the subjects dealt with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546269335

John Weyland

(Author did not want to provide. All his other books for this series did not have ATA)

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Chapter 1

Women had to appeal to rights that did not exist.

This forced them into a false position from the beginning of their movement.

Unfortunately for women, it seemed to confirm the unfavorable opinion of them that prevailed. This was that they were so emotional that they could not think on the same level as men.

Fortunately for them, they were in a very strong political position and succeeded despite the weakness of their arguments.

Women had been subordinate to men from pre-history onward. The explanation for this was simple. They were physically inferior. Men could make them do whatever they wanted. This was true in the primitive age—which lasted until about 10,000 years ago— and in the agricultural age, which did not end until the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution brought a change for women because it provided them with jobs outside the home. They were no longer dependent on men. That’s when the equal rights movement began,

To get change—in the democracies of the time—women had to convince the electorate they were entitled to change. They used the same methods as the men who carried on the war of independence against Great Britain.

They claimed the existence of rights that did not exist.

The only rights that exist are the rights that governments accept and enforce.

Luckily for the American revolutionaries, they were victorious in the war and took over the government, so they could make the rights they claimed into real rights.

Women were able to do the same. They quickly—by historical standards—turned the rights they claimed into legal rights— i. e. real rights. They triumphed—and are in a political position to keep triumphing.

So how can women be in this strong position when their numbers are about the same as those of men? They vote as a bloc. Men do not on women’s issues. Many men vote with women.

Men did not anticipate this when they gave women the vote. They did not think about it at all. They assumed that women would go on being women.

Men did not realize that women had been the women of tradition because they were totally subordinate to men. They seemed to be content doing that because they had no choice. They were making the best of things. Once they got their independence they showed they had not been so content and they wanted change.

Chapter 2

There are so many guns in the United States because there are so many guns in the United States.

This makes guns a problem that cannot be solved.

Every time there is a mass shooting there are calls for more gun control to prevent mass shootings. This is ridiculous. More gun control would not prevent mass shootings.

It is another case in the United States of a supposed popular solution for a problem that would not solve the problem. What counts is whether it is popular, not whether it is effective.

In the United States most of the people had been farmers. Every farmer had a gun. Among other things, there was a lot of game. And there were a lot of Indians.

In Europe the farmers did not have guns. The ruling aristocracy was not going to arm its lower class. And there no longer a lot of game. And much of that was reserved for the aristocracy.

But, you say, most of the people in the United States are no longer farmers. And the Indians got killed off or gave up. True. But the earlier gun culture caused a lot of guns to be around. Farmers’ sons did not lose their interest in guns just because they left the farm.

And there was the West and the western books and movies. Those were themes and scenes that fascinated boys and men.

And then the gangs and crimes in the cities.

So there are a lot of guns in the United States. Probably more guns than people.

And—to get back to this—there are a lot of guns in the United States because there are a lot of guns in the United States.

Fathers of families—and many others—buy guns for protection against those with guns. They don’t like the thought of being helpless if somebody breaks into their house and points a gun at them.

So if somebody thinks he is going to control this situation by causing guns to be more controlled he is mistaken—so completely mistaken that the thought never should have come to him in the first place.

Chapter 3

There is no law against lying.

There is no law against lying because such a law could not be enforced.

This is a serious defect of civilization.

The truth is necessary.

The truth is necessary because we cannot think correctly without the truth.

And if we cannot think correctly we cannot understand.

And if we cannot understand we cannot deal with.

The purpose of dealing with is to get good results.

Evolution has the same purpose.

Evolution is nature’s means of adapting to the conditions of life.

Understanding is our improvement on evolution.

It is a tremendous improvement. It has been the making of us.

But we cannot use it as well as we might because of lying.

Human beings found a way of dealing with the deceptiveness of nature.

That was science.

To which we owe the modern world.

But we have not found a way of dealing with the deceptiveness of human beings.

A law against lying would take more manpower to enforce than we have.

Each case would have to be investigated and prosecuted.

Each offense would have to be punished.

The human species would be overwhelmed.

We cannot do it.

Chapter 4

Charity worked better than welfare.

The government cannot withhold welfare from those in need.

No democratic country would allow it.

Because government cannot withhold welfare from those in need, it has no means of forcing anybody to do anything.

Unless it is willing to put them in jail.

Again, the country would not allow it. Putting somebody in in jail for being in need? Unthinkable.

A democratic government cannot threaten to reduce the hand-out to somebody in need. The reduced hand-out would be protested by the electorate. Don’t we have any feeling for our fellow-countrymen?

So malingerers have to be accepted. In any number they choose to accumulate themselves.

Democratic countries tend to develop a permanent idle class. The political parties devote little or no attention to this because they see no way to solve the problem.

This situation did not exist until the welfare state.

There was charity before the welfare state. The aristocracies that ran the world before the Industrial Revolution assumed no governmental responsibility for the needy. Charity was not like the welfare state. Charity could be refused. This gave charities the means to force the recipients to look for work. This was why charities worked better than the welfare state.

Chapter 5

Proponents of capitalism argue that it is the most productive system and therefore it should be the prevailing system.

Capitalism is the most productive system—far and