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TBW's avatar

Compliments. Very comprehensive, well put together overview.

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Bill Pound's avatar

Your writing is like a breath of fresh air. And I look forward to reading more. I hope you accumulated considerable wealth giving you time to research, think, and write about our current world. Good for you.

Still the term "convenience" sticks in my brain. You have written about convenience in several posts, as a reason we all get sucked in to devices which may, can, and do provide avenues of government control. I agree that the Internet and our ubiquitous cellphones aid others in creating conditions for control.

Some of your work started with Thomas Edison. On my desk is a cylindrical object, labeled Edison Amberol Record #285, "Stars and Stripes Forever March" by John Philip Sousa (four minutes). This came from my grandmother. She also had a one-cylinder Stickney engine and a washing machine. They bought a Ford Model A car, and she wanted to know "how fast will it go?" Yes, much of what we have and want today is for convenience (time saving?). Television where I can't respond to what I see. Internet emails over Letters to the Editor of our newspapers. Freezers over Ice Boxes. Computers with Microsoft Word over handwritten text, etc. These "conveniences" aren't going away. There will be more to come.

But you are right, they do set us up for control by people whose credentials deprive them of all humility, allowing them to baldly tell us the Border is closed. We need to encourage Federalism among sovereign States, do trial and error at State level, with emulation of successes. We need to discourage central planning at the Federal level (abortion is a good example). Dethrone the Executive and the unelected Federal Bureaucracy. Insist members of Congress agree on legislation benefitting Americans rather than have them determined to win at all costs.

Eliminate professional sports (OK that will be a long time coming). Pass a law to breakup any company or cartel which achieves more than 40% of a defined market. Big corporations and Big Governments have a natural affinity for each other. Witness all the bent knees around the world on the election of Donald Trump. Had he lost, the knees would just bend in the other direction.

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