I saw a video on the internet of a Madison Wisconsin pro-Union protester that talked to the press about the tyranny of working at a Noodle restaurant franchise.

He said he supported the union, because his place of work was a perfect example of the capitalistic, exploitive dictatorship of the taskmasters over the worker.

He complained:

-- How he is forced to show up for work on time, or else face a penalty.

-- How the company forces him to cook the noodles only in a certain way; any deviation is punishable.

-- How he must do exactly as he is told, in manner of dress, in how he interacts with customers, or he can be fired.

-- If he is fired, there is no money to live on.

-- If there is no money to live on, he will starve.

-- If he starves, he will die.

-- Thus the Noodle franchise is a dictatorship with absolute power, and if left to enforce its will, would be guilty of murder.

This is what happens when a god has no power. He gets grumpy because he is the self-adjudicating arbiter of right and wrong. And having been wronged, he seeks ‘social justice’ to rectify the wrong. But the effective material expression of his morality is thwarted because he has no power.

The god then seeks other powerless gods who share the same fellowship of perceived injustice, from which to draw enough collective power to alter the social reality.

They fully recognize their powerlessness, since they adopt a mantra amongst themselves whereby they must “speak truth to power”. The mantra becomes a feverish pitch as the gods en masse try to convince the others, the non-gods, that what you earn is really not yours to keep, that you owe them a debt because of their existence, that the producers of wealth are not entitled to any of it, and more….

Alas, reality can only be altered for a short duration. Truth has a way of correcting artificiality. Progressivism is all about altering reality to fit the demands made by the gods.

The moral of the story is that there are reasons why you should never give collective bargaining rights to the gods.