08-23-2017, 10:51 AM
(08-21-2017, 03:28 PM)noway2 Wrote:(08-21-2017, 10:20 AM)David Horn Wrote:Kinser79 Wrote:As for the government itself, I've long looked forward to it being burnt to the ground. I've long advocated razing the whole rotten structure to build something else in its place. The only difference is I'm on the right now instead of the left.
First, you design a better replacement, then you tear down the old system. So far, no one has taken any steps in that direction.
You should read The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larkin Rose. It will, or at least should, alter how you view government. In short the idea that you can take a group of individuals and bestow upon them super power that the people don't have themselves is both irrational and inherently subject to corruption. The fact that people do so, all be it, draped in all sorts of political rituals such as elections, is largely based in their belief in the need for there to be some sort of "authority" for them to obey.
I used to believe that "government" could be a force for good, or for what is right. I was mistaken. Government by it's very nature will always corrupt. The less of it, if any, the better off we will be.
Let's start with the obvious: power will exist. If you choose to eliminate or at least neuter public power, private power will take its place. Do you think that people like Carl Icahn, who has destroyed more jobs than any single person in this country, or the Walton family with their Walmart empire, will give a tinker's damn about how you're doing ... unless it profits them personally.
What you're seeking has existed in this country before. It's a bit of the Antebellum South mixed with a generous portion of the Gilded Age. Is that your preference?
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.