One man, one vote, once? I thought that the fact that present forms of democracy produce better results than that form of government was proven by the very existence of this forum.
That the republic produced better results than one man one vote once is demonstrated by the existence of this forum. The republic, however, has been dead for some time.
Today western science is stagnant for the same reasons as it was stagnant from 1293 to 1648 – because it has been subordinated to religion.
“Scientists” complain that the government is interfering in “science” by denying them regulatory authority over other people’s economic activity.
Nasa’s primary goal is to make Muslims feel good about Muslim science.
In 1903 December 17, the Wright brothers flew.
In 1905 October 05, they demonstrated powered flight “of practical utility”
In 1908, they started making a profit.
In 1969 July 20, Commander Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, but the flight was not of practical utility.
So from the Wright brothers to the moon landing was 66 years, and from the moon landing to now has been forty three years – and in those forty three years, have been slowly giving up on manned presence in space, rather than developing rockets “of practical utility”.
Americans are already bailing out Greece, so will be bailing out California. Add the unfunded state liabilities to the unfunded federal liability, there is no way the Federal government can make good on its debts. We are not just up for the federal deficit. We are up for the Greek and Californian deficit.
Every rising civilization was a lender, innovator, and investor, every declining civilization a borrower. California used to be the place where the future was invented, but no longer.
America was the place where the future was created. All the world depended on America for progress. It ceased to be that place under Clinton, and things got worse under Bush.
We cannot rebuild the two towers, we no longer have a human presence in space, and the next big thing on the internet, networked money that bypasses our legacy banking system, is coming from China, and, God-help-us, Africa.
Remember that in the 1950s, we were about to settle Antarctica, (but government swiftly stepped in and saved Antarctica from the evil humans)
I have seen the future, and it looks remarkably like Detroit and Liverpool – a barren wasteland of collapsed and disintegrating buildings where feral humans roam, murderously attacking at random.
A Chinese or a Russian is better able to do an internet mediated transaction than an America or European, and an African better able to do a cell phone mediated transaction than an American or European – because the government enforced and funded banking cartel is blocking progress. Webmoney is Russian, because its western equivalents are in jail, or had their assets confiscated.
Similarly, we cannot rebuild the two towers, because to build anything, one hundred and one Brahmans need to be paid off, and they cannot agree amongst themselves on the distribution of payoffs, nor how much kow towing to our enemies is to be built into the new tower’s memorial museum. Dubai, however, can build high towers, because to build the tower, the builder only needs the permission of
one religious authority.
That we cannot build a tower, nor transact through our cell phones, tells us why we cannot get into space.
An America that cannot rebuild the two towers, cannot possibly build nuclear power plants. If something is complicated, government cannot do it. If something is complicated and highly regulated by government, private enterprise cannot do it. Even if greenies were not determined to destroy western civilization, the US can no more build nuclear power plants than it can put a man on the moon.
Europe is crowded, yet a google earth view reveals vast expanses of unutilized or under utilized land, held out of use by greenies.
As the two towers demonstrate, the US has become the can’t do society. This is the result of the dispersal of power between ever more numerous Brahmins. To get anything done, you need an ever larger number of approvals and permits, which you are probably not going to get.