【推文】Devon Eriksen - This is the socialist worldview in a nutshell

這是 Devon Eriksen 最近寫的長推文（但不算很長），是對另一推文的回應

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原文及個人翻譯

推文回應的推文

This is the greatest obstruction we face.

這是我們面臨的最大障礙

（馬克思主義也有對宗教的批評，詳看【長片】The Theology of Marxism）

原推文

This is the socialist worldview in a nutshell.

Socialists believe the following:

1. All progress is social. This means that all human problems are solved by rearranging collective human behavior.
2. How to rearrange human behavior to solve problems is already known.
3. Problems therefore exist because there are people who don't want to behave in this known fashion.
4. Therefore, problems exist because certain people are in the way of progress.

這句話概述了社會主義的世界觀。

社會主義者相信以下幾點：

1. 所有進步都是社會性的，這意味著所有人類的問題都可以通過重新安排集體人類的行為來解決

2. 我們已知如何重新安排人類的行為以解決問題

3. 因此，問題存在是因為有一些人不願意以這種已知的方式行事

4. 因此，問題存在是因為某些人阻礙了進步

Socialist politicians may be grifters who believe in nothing, but their (living) voters, the socialist true believers, hate you, and this is why.

They believe you, your existence, your non-compliance with their plans, is all that stands between humanity and paradise.

This is why they will always murder you if they have power. This is why unchecked socialism always leads to the censor, the secret policeman tapping your phone, the neighbors dragged away in the night, the torture chamber, the gulag, the mass grave.

Because if you think that nothing stands between you and paradise but stubborn people, then you think you can murder your way to paradise.

社會主義政客可能只是不相信任何東西的騙子，但他們的（還活著的）選民，社會主義的信徒，卻是真正仇恨你的人，這就是原因。

他們相信你，你的存在，你不遵守他們的計劃，是人類和天堂之間唯一的障礙。

這就是為什麼他們如果有權力就會殺了你。這就是為什麼不受限制的社會主義總會導致審查制度、秘密警察監聽你的電話、鄰居在夜裡被拖走、酷刑室、勞改營、集體墳墓。

因為如果你認為在你和天堂之間唯一的障礙是頑固的人，那麼你就會認為你可以通過謀殺來到達天堂。

When a socialist demands socialism, you either comply or you do not.

If you do not comply, he wants to murder you.

If you do not comply, then the socialist policy he enacts not only fails to bring about paradise, it makes things worse, so he demands a further socialist policy.

If you do not comply, he wants to murder you.

If you repeatedly comply, then eventually things get very bad indeed, and the socialist casts about for someone to blame. Surely there must be some non-compliant person around here somewhere. Some counter-revolutionary. He must be found and murdered, and then paradise will be attained.

當一個社會主義者要求實行社會主義時，你要麼遵守，要麼不遵守。

如果你不遵守，他會想殺了你。

如果你不遵守，那麼他實行社會主義政策不僅未能帶來天堂，反而使事態變得更糟，所以他要求實行進一步的社會主義政策。

如果你不遵守，他會想殺了你。

如果你一再遵守，那麼最終事情會變得非常糟糕，社會主義者就會尋找某人來指責。這裡一定有一些不聽話的人，有些反革命的人，他必須被找到並被殺死，然後我們才能到達天堂。

This isn't about religion.

"Religion" is merely the label they paste on your non-compliance. If you were an atheist, they'd just use another label.

That giant finger in the drawing isn't your beliefs.

It's you.

They think you are evil.

Not wrong, evil.

And they want to kill you.

Not all of them think they do, of course. There's a group called "democratic socialists", who append the word "democratic" to the front, to mean "I don't want to kill you, I only want to use the political process to force you to comply."

But when they do, your society enters the same downward spiral described above. So they eventually decide to kill you. They will always, eventually, reach the point where they decide to kill someone.

Because they always think their utopian plans will work if they kill just one more person, and their utopian plans will never actually work no matter how many people they kill.

這不是關於宗教。

「宗教」只是他們貼在你不遵守上的標籤。如果你是一個無神論者，他們會使用另一個標籤。

畫中那隻巨大的手指並不是你的信仰。

它是你。

他們認為你是邪惡的。

不是錯誤的，而是邪惡的。

他們想殺了你。

當然，不是所有人都這麼想，有一種稱為「民主社會主義」的群體，他們在「社會主義」前加上「民主」一詞，意思是「我不想殺你，我只想利用政治過程來強迫你遵守」。

但當他們這樣做時，你的社會會進入上述的下降螺旋。所以他們最終會決定殺了你。他們總是會，最終，達到那個點，他們決定殺掉某個人。

因為他們總是認為，如果他們再殺一個人，他們的烏托邦計劃就會奏效，而無論他們殺多少人，他們的烏托邦計劃永遠不會真正奏效。

What actually works isn't socialism, it's technology.

Here's how:

1. All progress is technological. This means that all human problems are solved by figuring out a better understanding of the universe, and creating a piece of technology based on that understanding.
2. Creating new science and technology is hard, and requires a lot time, money, and effort.
3. Problems therefore exist because not enough time, money, and effort has yet been invested to produce the necessary technological breakthrough.
4. Therefore, there is absolutely, positively, 100% no way to solve all human problems right now by acting differently. But we can optimize society for technological progress.

真正奏效的不是社會主義，而是技術。

原因如下：

1. 所有進步都是技術上的。這意味著所有人類的問題都可以通過更好地了解宇宙並根據這一理解創建技術來解決。

2. 創建新的科學和技術是困難的，需要大量的時間、金錢和精力。

3. 問題存在的原因是尚未投入足夠的時間、金錢和精力來產生必要的技術突破。

4. 因此，目前絕對不可能通過改變行為來解決所有人類的問題。但我們可以改善社會以促進技術進步。

In other words, the "star trek future" isn't waiting for us to become atheists, because atheism doesn't produce technology faster or better than any religion that isn't anti-technology.

That "star trek future" is instead waiting on us to invent warp drives, teleporters, and matter nanoassemblers.

And every single piece of progress that humanity has achieved came not from social activism, but from technological advancement.

The 40 hour work week was merely demanded by unions. It was actually enabled by industrial technology.

Democracy, republicanism, and other forms of populist government were merely demanded by revolutions and philosophies. They were enabled by the rifled firearm.

And so on.

換句話說，等待我們的不是成為無神論者的「星際迷航未來」，因為無神論並不會比任何不反技術的宗教更快、更好地促進技術發展。

那個「星際迷航未來」正在等待我們發明曲速驅動器、傳送門和物質納米裝配機。

人類取得的每一點進步都不是社會活動家的功勞，而是技術進步的功勞。

工會只是要求40小時的工作週，但真正使它成為可能的是工業技術。

民主、共和制和其他形式的民粹主義政府只是革命和哲學所要求的，但它們是由火槍來實現的。

如此類推。

For every positive change in society and civilization, there is one or more critical pieces of technology that allow it to happen.

Once that technology exists, the change is trivial. When it does not exist, forcing that change is disastrous, not positive.

A 40 hour work week would exterminate a civilization of bronze age agriculturalists. Democracy would destroy a medieval kingdom.

Progress is technological progress.

This is why socialism must be stopped.

Because socialism interferes with technological progress, which is the real driving force behind progress of any kind.

You cannot murder your way to utopia.

社會和文明中的每一項積極變化，都有一個或多個關鍵的技术來實現它。

一旦存在這樣的技术，變化就很簡單。如果不存在，強行推動這種變化就會造成災難，而不是正面影響。

一個40小時工作週會滅絕銅器時代農業社會。民主制度會毀掉一個中世紀的王國。

進步是技術進步。

這就是為什麼必須阻止社會主義。

因為社會主義干涉技術進步，而技術進步是任何類型的進步的真正驅動力。

你不能通過謀殺來實現烏托邦。