"When you are a toddler, all you have to do is point.
Then your mother or father reach over, grab the object you are pointing at, and give it to you.
If you point at a food item, one of them will put it into your mouth.
The spoonful of pudding comes right at your mouth, you open up, and voila!
You have a mouthful of delicious pudding.
You live in a world of near-instant gratification.
As you grow older, you learn to annoy your parents by asking Why?
How?
Where?
What? When?
...The child psychologist Piaget noticed that young children begin to think they cause things to happen.
This is logical, since this is what happens to toddlers every day.
You want it?
You got it!
Piaget wrote that children can believe that waving their hands causes the wind.
He called this “magical thinking.”
He argued that this comes from experiencing yourself as the center of the universe.
Of course, from a baby’s point of view, he IS the center of his universe.
All things come to baby.
In the normal course of growing up, you learn that you are not the center of the universe.
You no longer get everything you want immediately.
Then you get frustrated and demand to be the center of the universe again.
How?
With a temper tantrum.
...Socialist thinking is toddler magical thinking.
Socialist thinking is ‘never grow up’ thinking.
Socialist thinking is ‘I’m the center of the universe’ thinking.
Of course, this is cleverly disguised as ‘I only want Socialism so that poor people can get free stuff! Social Justice!’
How?
Magic!..."
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