neilgin1 wrote:johnbrickner wrote:Neil:
<snip> I tape stinking athletes' feet for a living. <snip>
My best work tends to have the ability to get to the gut of my target market (persuasive) and was done when I was organizing for the LP in MA.
See:
http://www.cmlc.org/lfr0105.pdf for an example after the glory days.
Also Neil, a resources war seems to be a senario predicted by some regarding our future. I'll see what I can come up with on that subject.
John, as far as what you do for a living, i want to write two thing to you, ALL labor is honorable, and what you DO for a living, has nothing to do with the mind you possess.....which i believe is a fine analytical mind. i believe we should always, as possible, encourage and build one another up, especially in these days, when so much energy is spent tearing others down.
tearing people down is just unwholesome and ignoble behavior, as i see it. so, i hope you count me as a friend, albeit a new one, and over this impersonal medium, respectfully, neil
ps....you're a libertarian!!! good show mate....too bad empire has its claws sunk so deeply into the national soul......empire doesnt like libertarians,.......look at the totally disrespectful way they treated Congressmen Ron Paul via their hirelings, mainstream media....sad, but we lose not hope, ever.
Neil:
Not to worry, the "I tape stinking . . ." is a quote I used to use when I was recruiting college aged youth and shy individuals to get across the opportunity that exists within the party. It went something like "Imagine a guy like me who tapes stinking . . . state party Chairman, Only in America and the LP is this Possible!"
I am only registered Republican so I could vote Ron in the primaries. Not sure how I would align myself now-a-days.
Also, I've been lurking your posts for sometime now. I like the way you think and yes, have considered myself to be on your side often.
Regarding the Empire, it's only a matter of time. Those in power will hang onto it as long as they can. The feeding at the trough, entitlements, and continued expansion of govt is unsustainable. In fact, economic growth as we currently define it is unsustainable and will not happen in the future as the entire system is based on debt & cheap oil. Now that we passed peak oil production worldwide and have experienced the associated worldwide spike in price as a result, and add to this we as a world are maxing out the amount of debt all can carry, we can see economic growth as all countries are looking for and working towards will not happen. At best, politically the only government the population can carry is a small decentralized one.
The best thing I think that could happen to the world is for America, China, Russia and Europe to decentralize/deunion to the maximum size of states or regions. Then each region works toward it's own sustainable self-sufficency. While I have not looked into the details, virtually no region would be able to attain this status in all areas (food, energy production, technology, resources, population stability, etc.). This burdens each to interdependency between the regions and hopefully if there are conflicts over resources they will be way smaller scale than a China vs America one.
Another possibility is the Orwellian perpetual war that could be agreed upon by the ruling elite of the Eastern and Western Empires to dispose of the excess populations that will be/are unsustainable due to decreasing food production (yes, world grain production has peaked also).
"but we lose not hope, ever" Neil