Socialist Wet Dream

What would be your ideal world? Mine would have a benevolent me at the top dispensing largesse and tough love to a happy populace minus all those sociopaths, psychopaths, banksters, terrorists, mobsters and other really nasty people who would be sent to Siberia to take out their psychological deviations on each other, in the cold (which should calm them down a bit).

Joking right? Sure, Siberia would be too nice for them...

Of course I don't believe in an ideal world, but some people do, and they write about it because they really believe they have the answers to the world's ills.

Attila le Jim aka Jacques Attali

People like Jacques Attali, representative of the neo-liberal branch of the Parti Socialiste (if that isn't a contradiction in terms...). He's been an advisor to all recent French presidents from Mitterand on thanks to an impressive list of academic and intellectual achievements (which you can read about on his Wikipedia page).

And yet, the man's a monster. He's an inhuman, arrogant intellectual of the worst kind, bent on world domination for a small lefty elite (including himself), and a docile, uniform, young population. Joking right?

No. Here is our Jim's Socialist wet dream for an ideal world:
1. A small, quasi-immortal world elite thanks to advances in technology including cloning, babies hand-picked at birth although people would no longer have dirty messy sex (no thank YOU!). Babies would be created in nice clean test tubes. To make love, the elite would sit facing each other and bonk telepathically à la 'Brave New World'.
2. The rest of the world's population would be totally ethnically mixed (hello unlimited immigration) into mono-language, unisex, atheist, pacifists knowing neither riches nor poverty; uncultured, minimally educated, docile (our Jim is very keen on the docility of the little people like you and me) so that the super rich super elite can sleep at night and get on with leading the world, free of morals or ideology during the day. Worryingly, he supports the current educational reforms of Vincent Peillon which he says take education in the right (downward, no doubt) direction...
3. No old people. According to Attila the Jim, old people are a terrible, expensive inconvenience and should be bumped off around the age of 62. In his own words:

"Dès qu’il dépasse 60 - 65 ans, l’homme vit plus longtemps qu’il ne produit et il coûte alors cher à la société ; il est bien préférable que la machine humaine s’arrête brutalement, plutôt qu’elle ne se détériore progressivement".
Jacques Attali, L'Homme nomade, 2005.

Translation: After the age of 60/65 man is no longer productive and costs a lot to society. It's much better that the human machine stops abruptly rather than being allowed to deteriorate slowly.

Note that this only applies to the little people, not to the super elite (like him, aged 70) at the top. Thanks to technological advances, this group are practically immortal. He is in great favour of euthanasia, or rather suicide for the rest of us. Committing suicide is a type of freedom, and such fundamental liberties are très cherished by Socialists ("la logique socialiste c’est la liberté, et la liberté fondamentale c’est le suicide").

Of course, a government, especially 'benevolent' Socialist, cannot force people to commit suicide at the age of 62, that wouldn't look good. But there are ways of encouraging them - deprive them of resources until they become financially asphyxiated and jump off a cliff (or handed a convenient blue pill). By the end of 2013, Moscovici, ministre de l'Économie et des Finances will have managed, by taxation of varying sorts, to reduce the resources of the over 60s by 10%. If he continues in that vein, he'll eventually achieve the extinction of those oldie 'salauds de riches'! Mort aux vieux! It's a nice clean Socialist way of managing social problems...

Can you imagine these same words coming out of the mouth of someone like Marine le Pen, or Nicolas Sarkozy, or Jean-François Copé without an uproar from the lefty intelligentsia? Why are those on the left permitted to write such atrocities without the least raised finger from their peers? Is Attila le Jim so untouchable that his mates daren't object, or do they all really under all the pretence, think like him too?

In my opinion, these monsters should be placed very far from the centres of power and influence. They should not be hobnobbing with presidents either national or (especially their wet dream orgasmic) supra-national and should certainly not be used in the capacity of advisor, consultant or anything other than examples of depraved intellectual arrogance. I reckon they must be, au fond, full of self-loathing to so despise their fellow wo/man, and to ignore the fact that being creative and intelligent is not limited to a certain socio-economic group. If they destroyed most of humanity they would destroy most of the potential for amazingly creative achievements.

Would you commit suicide at 62 so as not to be a 'burden on the state'? Me, I'd buy a black market gun, not to use on myself but on anyone who came knocking at the door with a sympathetic smile and a box with a blue pill. I'd wipe that smile off its (unisex) face, painlessly and humanely in a single blast (just in case you're reading this, Atti-boy)!

Actually, I like the sound of my ideal world better. Sarah for World Prez!