05-14-2016, 05:01 AM
(05-13-2016, 06:39 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: I have yet to see in my lifetime that I can remember a military action wherein the US was victorious where the supposedly mightiest military in the world was not fighting some third rate third world military. If anything things have gotten worse since the revocation of the Draft. But then again the older I get the more I seem to think that the basis of citizenship along the same lines as Starship Troopers might be a fundamentally good idea.
This will occur over the time span roughly equivalent to the decline of Feudalism. It took five hundred years to get to this level of centralization. Just as the Church was in fiscal bankruptcy, so it is with the State now. This always happens to the preeminent institution when a certain way of organizing society reaches its limit.
You might like the Freehold a little better since it more fully develops the idea that Heinlein had.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises