Tucker Carlson, radical Marxist
Aug. 5th, 2019 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo let's talk about Tucker Carlson's anti-vax position and how it leads into what's wrong with the United States.
Now, Carson is not anti-science. Carlson understands that vaccinations are effective. Since he understands this, he's completely and fully up-to-date on his shots. But as a radical libertarian, Tucker believes that the state mandating that you get your shots is a violation of citizens' civil liberties, and that when the state requires them, the state is acting in a deeply evil fashion.
(Tucker also believes that seat belt and child labor laws are also evidence of the "nanny state"; the state has no business telling you what you can do with your body while driving, or tell you that your children shouldn't work in the mines. But let's not get too distracted.)
Tucker also understands the principle of herd immunity. He just doesn't think that reaching herd immunity is worth the civil rights violations inherent in forcing someone to undergo a medical procedure, even one as mild as an injection, to achieve it. I wonder if Tucker believes that in the event of an Ebola outbreak in the United States, the CDC should sit back and let it burn itself out.
There's a description of Galt's Gulch from Atlas Shrugged that keeps coming back to me:
There's a weird accord in Galt's Gulch, the legendary libertarian paradise of Ayn Rand's weird imagination. It reads a bit like Herbert's Santaroga Barrier, in which a communal id has taken over the Gulch and everyone acts in accord with it. The net effect of Galt's Gulch is that, within a foundation of action, every man gives and receives resources "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
He believes that in an ideal world the accord one has for another would be so perfect that no one would refuse the gift of vaccination. He believes that in this ideal world the power law of capitalism would never come into play; the participants would simply never let it happen, and no external force, no communal effort, would be needed to ensure that no one emerged who hoarded wealth for its own sake.
Tucker believes in that a functioning communist system, as wholly described by Karl Marx, would naturally emerge from first principles after everyone too stupid to recognize the value of that system died from malnourishment or disease.
Now, Carson is not anti-science. Carlson understands that vaccinations are effective. Since he understands this, he's completely and fully up-to-date on his shots. But as a radical libertarian, Tucker believes that the state mandating that you get your shots is a violation of citizens' civil liberties, and that when the state requires them, the state is acting in a deeply evil fashion.
(Tucker also believes that seat belt and child labor laws are also evidence of the "nanny state"; the state has no business telling you what you can do with your body while driving, or tell you that your children shouldn't work in the mines. But let's not get too distracted.)
Tucker also understands the principle of herd immunity. He just doesn't think that reaching herd immunity is worth the civil rights violations inherent in forcing someone to undergo a medical procedure, even one as mild as an injection, to achieve it. I wonder if Tucker believes that in the event of an Ebola outbreak in the United States, the CDC should sit back and let it burn itself out.
There's a description of Galt's Gulch from Atlas Shrugged that keeps coming back to me:
"We are not a state here, not a society of any kind — we’re just a voluntary association of men held together by nothing but every man’s self-interest… Judge Narragansett is to act as our arbiter, in case of disagreements. He hasn’t had to be called upon, as yet. They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is — when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the sake of the other and that reason is their only means of trade.”
There's a weird accord in Galt's Gulch, the legendary libertarian paradise of Ayn Rand's weird imagination. It reads a bit like Herbert's Santaroga Barrier, in which a communal id has taken over the Gulch and everyone acts in accord with it. The net effect of Galt's Gulch is that, within a foundation of action, every man gives and receives resources "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
He believes that in an ideal world the accord one has for another would be so perfect that no one would refuse the gift of vaccination. He believes that in this ideal world the power law of capitalism would never come into play; the participants would simply never let it happen, and no external force, no communal effort, would be needed to ensure that no one emerged who hoarded wealth for its own sake.
Tucker believes in that a functioning communist system, as wholly described by Karl Marx, would naturally emerge from first principles after everyone too stupid to recognize the value of that system died from malnourishment or disease.
