I like to think of myself as logical. I like to look at the facts and make up my own mind based on what I see and now. This can then be discussed and if new facts or viewpoints are raised then I can even change my opinion on something. It’s a nice logical approach and has worked pretty well for me in work and at home although with personal issues logic can sometime drop out of the window.
We are illogical creatures and imperfect but that is OK because it makes us what we are. Who wants to be completely logical in everything we do? It makes us help others and brings out the good in us. I hope we never evolve to a stage where we have no emotions at all and everything we do is based on logic. We would quickly become like the Borg. Human ants with no compassion, pity or desire to do anything beyond what we logically decide is our purpose. However, logic is unlikely to give us a real purpose in life.
Anyway, the way we are has been the way we have been for a long time. Only we have become more intelligent, more compassionate, adaptable and innovative. That has allowed us to move away from subsistence farming and hunting just to live to the society we have now where most of us do not work just to feed ourselves and many jobs are actually not necessary but luxury. Which is why when money is tight we stop buying luxury goods but still have to buy necessities.
All in all we are at near the highest point of our progress so far. I’m not calling it the peak as I firmly believe we have a long way to go and I believe we have dipped from the high we had a few years ago. The whole world seems to be going to pot and rational people are now talking about revolution. Not the Citizen Smith youngsters who want, want, want without putting anything in but Patriots and followers of Truth and Justice who are the ones talking. People like those who were around in 1775. So why is this? Well, it may not surprise you to find that I have a theory.
In my opinion the problem can be summed up in one word – Government.
It doesn’t matter what type of government it is, all over the planet we are all facing the same issues. Personally, I thought the US one was one of the best but as we can see it is not immune to the influence of the cancer within. A small cancer, in the UK it infects a couple of thousand people. These people are politicians. For the small number of them they cause damage far beyond what each could do individually. Every aspect of your and your countrymen’s lives are touched by them and destruction follows. If you think about it everything that is wrong with society over the last 30 years has been caused by government. Yet, what have the done that is positive? Nothing I can think of.
Just look at what is happening from the front page of BBC News;
Courts get Booze ASBO powers
Prison food better than hospital food.
Power station invasion planned
Lesbians given equal birth rights
Man shot dead outside nightclub
The 100W bulb bows out.
Wife murderer jailed for life.
Fuel duty to rise from midnight
Almost all of those things have been dictated by the government. Why do they have their cancerous fingers into everything? The man shot dead outside nightclub clearly is actual news. News that I actually feel is indirectly caused by the government due to its namby pamby attitude to self defence and justice. Plod will catch the killer and they will serve time. Not life as it implies but life as in a minimum of 15 years or so like the wife murderer.
Think of anything wrong about this country and our government has its cancerous fingers in the pie;
Children being regularly murdered by their parents.
Benefits of a social system that encourages unwanted children.
Criminals not being punished for their crimes.
Benefits of a Justice system that believes that all criminal activity is a result of society and should not be punished and a target driven police force where more points are given for minor crimes than serious crimes.
Sky high taxes and confiscation of resources.
Benefits of a social system that takes money from productive members of society and gives it freely to unproductive people.
Surveillance society
Benefits of a society where the subjects need to be monitored to make sure they are all paying as much tax as they can and can be traced when necessary for the security of the state.
Abysmal transport system
Benefits of policies that take the tax for the roads and spend them on social programmes stopping the roads keeping up to requirements. Public transport that doesn’t go where needed when needed at a reasonable cost because it is run by politicians.
Expensive and inadequate housing
Benefits of a social policy that stops people building on their own land and dictates what needs to be built to suit social policy rather than what the market needs.
The list goes on and on. I can’t think of a single thing that can’t be traced back to some mickey mouse policy by politicians. There may be some out there but I bet they are few and far between.
The root cause of our failing society is clearly government itself. I’m actually wondering if it was ever any good for us. I don’t see any evidence for that in any history. All it does is interfere and take. So think of a issue that is in our society and then it won’t take long to see the governments fingerprints all over it.
We need smaller government, almost non existent government, down to the local level, we need to get rid of professional politicians and we need to reduce our laws down to the bare minimum and enforce them rigorously. However, it won’t just happen overnight. We need a long term plan, we need to break it into short but feasible steps and we need to start with the easy stuff. Our political parties are not going to do it. It’s like asking turkeys to organise Christmas. It will never happen.
Unless we make it so. I’m sharpening my spork as we speak.
Root cause of our ills
I like to think of myself as logical. I like to look at the facts and make up my own mind based on what I see and now. This can then be discussed and if new facts or viewpoints are raised then I can even change my opinion on something. It’s a nice logical approach and has worked pretty well for me in work and at home although with personal issues logic can sometime drop out of the window.
We are illogical creatures and imperfect but that is OK because it makes us what we are. Who wants to be completely logical in everything we do? It makes us help others and brings out the good in us. I hope we never evolve to a stage where we have no emotions at all and everything we do is based on logic. We would quickly become like the Borg. Human ants with no compassion, pity or desire to do anything beyond what we logically decide is our purpose. However, logic is unlikely to give us a real purpose in life.
Anyway, the way we are has been the way we have been for a long time. Only we have become more intelligent, more compassionate, adaptable and innovative. That has allowed us to move away from subsistence farming and hunting just to live to the society we have now where most of us do not work just to feed ourselves and many jobs are actually not necessary but luxury. Which is why when money is tight we stop buying luxury goods but still have to buy necessities.
All in all we are at near the highest point of our progress so far. I’m not calling it the peak as I firmly believe we have a long way to go and I believe we have dipped from the high we had a few years ago. The whole world seems to be going to pot and rational people are now talking about revolution. Not the Citizen Smith youngsters who want, want, want without putting anything in but Patriots and followers of Truth and Justice who are the ones talking. People like those who were around in 1775. So why is this? Well, it may not surprise you to find that I have a theory.
In my opinion the problem can be summed up in one word – Government.
It doesn’t matter what type of government it is, all over the planet we are all facing the same issues. Personally, I thought the US one was one of the best but as we can see it is not immune to the influence of the cancer within. A small cancer, in the UK it infects a couple of thousand people. These people are politicians. For the small number of them they cause damage far beyond what each could do individually. Every aspect of your and your countrymen’s lives are touched by them and destruction follows. If you think about it everything that is wrong with society over the last 30 years has been caused by government. Yet, what have the done that is positive? Nothing I can think of.
Just look at what is happening from the front page of BBC News;
Almost all of those things have been dictated by the government. Why do they have their cancerous fingers into everything? The man shot dead outside nightclub clearly is actual news. News that I actually feel is indirectly caused by the government due to its namby pamby attitude to self defence and justice. Plod will catch the killer and they will serve time. Not life as it implies but life as in a minimum of 15 years or so like the wife murderer.
Think of anything wrong about this country and our government has its cancerous fingers in the pie;
Benefits of a social system that encourages unwanted children.
Benefits of a Justice system that believes that all criminal activity is a result of society and should not be punished and a target driven police force where more points are given for minor crimes than serious crimes.
Benefits of a social system that takes money from productive members of society and gives it freely to unproductive people.
Benefits of a society where the subjects need to be monitored to make sure they are all paying as much tax as they can and can be traced when necessary for the security of the state.
Benefits of policies that take the tax for the roads and spend them on social programmes stopping the roads keeping up to requirements. Public transport that doesn’t go where needed when needed at a reasonable cost because it is run by politicians.
Benefits of a social policy that stops people building on their own land and dictates what needs to be built to suit social policy rather than what the market needs.
The list goes on and on. I can’t think of a single thing that can’t be traced back to some mickey mouse policy by politicians. There may be some out there but I bet they are few and far between.
The root cause of our failing society is clearly government itself. I’m actually wondering if it was ever any good for us. I don’t see any evidence for that in any history. All it does is interfere and take. So think of a issue that is in our society and then it won’t take long to see the governments fingerprints all over it.
We need smaller government, almost non existent government, down to the local level, we need to get rid of professional politicians and we need to reduce our laws down to the bare minimum and enforce them rigorously. However, it won’t just happen overnight. We need a long term plan, we need to break it into short but feasible steps and we need to start with the easy stuff. Our political parties are not going to do it. It’s like asking turkeys to organise Christmas. It will never happen.
Unless we make it so. I’m sharpening my spork as we speak.