John C. Wright's Journal

For a second time, Donald Trump is debating against the news media. The news media is eager to destroy him for reasons best left to speculation, and he must overcome them to win the votes needed to win.

The person the news media is propping up is some sleazy criminal granny from Arkansas. She assures me that in her America “Diversity MUST be celebrated!” The mandatory nature of the commandment leaves me cold, if not repelled.

When confronted about her various lies, Hillary replies by chuckling and telling people to go to her website.

I did not watch the whole debate. Trump respond to Hilary saying “I wouldn’t want someone with your temperament in office” by saying “Because you’d be in jail.”

Aside from that zinger, nothing of substance was said, at least so far as I could stomach watching.

However, Trump’s newest campaign promise, to appoint a special prosecutor and investigate his opponent, is unique in presidential races. Had he not won my support with previous promises, this alone would have won me over. The idea that someone can merely scoff at a congressional subpoena, destroy evidence, and get off Scot-free is a blasphemy to the goddesses of law and justice.

An article from the Guardian newspaper, home of Damien Walter, who in times past has been kind enough to give Larry Correia writing advice, and who is gifted with sufficient foresight to have predicted the end of my career just before I won the Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

It seems their political writer, one Mr. Robert Shiller, brings the same sagacity to bear on national and international affairs:

“For the past several centuries, the world has experienced a sequence of intellectual revolutions against oppression of one sort or another. These rebellions operate in the minds of humans and are spread eventually to most of the world, not by war, which tends to involve multiple causes, but by language and communications technology. Ultimately, the ideas they advance, unlike the causes of war, become noncontroversial.

The next such revolution, likely to occur in the 21st century, will challenge the economic implications of the nation state. It will focus on the injustice that follows from the fact that, entirely by chance, some are born in poor countries and others in rich countries. As more people work for multinational firms and get to know more people from other countries, our sense of justice is being affected.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/19/the-looming-anti-national-revolution

Please reread that line to savor the implication:”It will focus on the injustice that follows from the fact that, entirely by chance, some are born in poor countries and others in rich countries.”

Translation: nature, by placing you at your point in time and space at birth when it did, committed an injustice, either by elevating you unfairly above your peers, or delivering you to parents, neighborhood, nation, continent or planet adorned with less wealth and fewer advantages.

Why, the very cosmos is unfair!

And it is both the privilege of omniscient man to foretell and yet undo natural woes and within his omnipotent power to do it! For who else can rewrite the laws of nature aside from the godlike beings our mental and moral superiors on the Left conceive themselves to be?

Why, I myself often brood over the remarkable injustice done me by requiring me to be born here on Earth, among humans, rather than on the island of Houyhnhnmland, my natural home, or planet Vulcan.

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