{"id":2673,"date":"2011-11-08T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/the-only-good-occupation\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:22:46","slug":"the-only-good-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-only-good-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Good Occupation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>By<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/james_lewis\/\"><strong>James  Lewis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"article_box_ad\"><!-- google_ad_client = \"pub-4560167926987914\"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; google_ad_format = \"300x250_as\"; google_ad_type = \"text_image\"; \/\/2006-11-22: AT - Articles - 300 by 250 google_ad_channel = \"0110545599\"; google_color_border = \"336699\"; google_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\"; google_color_link = \"999966\"; google_color_text = \"000000\"; google_color_url = \"003399\"; \/\/--><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/printpage\/?url=http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/..\/2011\/11\/the_only_good_occupation.html\">The  Only Good Occupation&#8230; <\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is  getting a job. So you won&#8217;t have to leech off Mom and Dad anymore.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is taking responsibility for your own neurotic  hangups, and not blaming your gnawing feelings of inferiority on the most  miraculous, creative, and popular economic system in the world &#8212; including the  parts of China, India, and Russia that actually work. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is learning about capitalism, before revealing your  fathomless ignorance to the world. And no, <em>Das Kapital<\/em> is not about  capitalism. It&#8217;s about the personal alienation and greed of an angry kid who  grew up in Prussia almost two hundred years ago, and who thirsted to make the  whole world like the Prussian Empire, complete with millions of marching robots.  (See North Korea today).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is not getting manipulated by a sinister cabal of  billionaire lefties who want to buy political power for themselves, and thinking  that you&#8217;re doing something noble, idealistic, and unselfish. You&#8217;re not. You&#8217;re  just flattering your own neurotic egomania, the personality disorder that kept  getting you in trouble with your family, your friends, and your impersonal sex  partners. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is growing up. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is respecting other human beings, who know a lot more  about living than you, in your arrogance, think you do. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is understanding that the Nazi Occupation of Europe,  the Chinese Occupation of Tibet, the Soviet Occupation of Eastern Europe, and  the Radical Occupation of American Universities are all the same, evil, and  deeply selfish thing. They always lead to tyrannies and dictatorships, and they  always, always end in killing people by the hundreds of thousands. Or more.  <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is to get that Communism has been more humanly  destructive than Hitler, because Hitler lasted only 13 years before he shot  himself in that bunker. Communist regimes lasted 70 years in the Soviet Empire,  and killed 100 million people in that time, while making everybody else poor,  miserable, and brainwashed. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is to realize when you&#8217;ve been cultified and suckered,  but good, by Crony Capitalists who have convinced you and a million other  dead-heads to believe that you are going to bring peace, love, and proper  obedience to the whole wide world. They are making out like bandits for  themselves, and you&#8217;re just the junior storm troopers.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is to get that:<\/span><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">the leftie media are owned by Giant Corporations, you  moron. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">That the mind set of Occupy is identical to the  mind-set of the Hitler Youth, of Mao&#8217;s Red Guards who killed 40 million of their  fellow Chinese, and of Pol Pot&#8217;s Khmer Rouge, who killed three million innocent  Cambodians &#8212; while your kind did nothing but cover up those murders.  <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">That Islamic mobs are just another version of your  kind.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">That the American people are learning from your Rich  Kids&#8217; Revolution what you really are. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">That capitalism is the engine of prosperity,  technology, real science, and real progress. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is to get it straight through your thick skull that  we&#8217;ve seen your kind before &#8212; we fought three major wars against your kind in  the last 100 years &#8212; and that the West, as decadent as it is, will gather  itself together and win.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">That normal people will win in the end, because  capitalism, individualism, personal creativity, and electoral democracy are more  powerful than a gaggle of power-hungry freaks.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">So look, kids. There are all kinds of useful  Occupations. But first one is to get a job and stop bothering productive people  who are paying to keep  your sorry hide in food, clothing, shelter, and police  protection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Lotsa luck, kids. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Don&#8217;t forget to grow up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Lewis The Only Good Occupation&#8230; Is getting a job. So you won&#8217;t have to leech off Mom and Dad anymore. Is taking responsibility for your own neurotic hangups, and not blaming your gnawing feelings of inferiority on the most miraculous, creative, and popular economic system in the world &#8212; including the parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-progressivism","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}