The Virtue Of Talent

The virtue of talent is the name I give to that indispensable moral filament which exists simultaneously in the mind and the heart.
It is a virtue which is the root of all usefulness in the artefacts with which we surround ourselves.
The continuing existence of this virtue may be judged from the usefulness of these products and our ability to derive pleasure from them.

What the vampire wants (see the picture), is the talent without the virtue.
This scum thinks that by turning us into stunted little units of 'usefulness', as if talent could be divorced from consciousness, it will inherit a garden of approximate harmony which continues to grow those things it requires for its miserable power-plays.

Be they neighbourly apartments or neighbourly Nation States.

Metaphysically, this talent is grown and nurtured by productive work.
Experimentally, they try to control it, by applying a moral throttle to our virtuous emotions, as if they believe they can hide us from ourselves.

British Socialists think that metaphysical virtue is the preserve of the 'Working Class heroes', to be jealously guarded as the 'birthright' of their clients, while other groups see it as a threat to hegemony in society.
This is why the paternalists and socialists of all sides united in their hatred of Margaret Thatcher.
This is why they claim that they are indispensible as only they can get along and 'govern by concensus'.
In fact they are united against freedom, but oh, so subtly.
No free man must be allowed to succeed.
But if they like him even a little, they will only apply their techniques in scientific subtlety.
(For his 'own good',of course).

So he will only be tortured for an hour each day after returning from work, that unpredictable crucible of underground virtues, until he forgets. Then they will leave him in peace (under threat?) for another day.

Trouble is, if he works in the torture chamber as well he might recognise the pattern.
The real 'experiment' in Blairista Britain is how much control can be exerted on the working man; they really intend to marry micromanagement models to demand economics, even if they have to destroy every mind in the country.
And I didn't mean that we would all suffer a collapse into delusional insanity-I meant that the Virtue of Talent would be eradicated in the quest to control it.


They will fail.