Technology, Security and Society

Wealth and freedom lost

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As the United States of America loses its wealth, it loses its freedom and as it surrenders its individual freedoms to the state, it loses its wealth.  One can say that the spirit of anything is its quality of freedom, the expansiveness of its life, the capacity of the spirit to reach out and permeate the material universe with intelligence and use it for the purposes of life, which, in material terms,  is to view wealth as a manifestation of the success of life (and “wealth” may be money or land or any production in excess of the minimum to survive).  Those who can arm-wrestle the factors of the physical universe and society into some form of productive machine for the benefit of life are few and are to be admired and supported.

These days many people, though potentially able to, cannot do what a simple farmer of 200 years ago could do: Produce more than he uses, do it himself and not whine about it.  It is due in part to government schools and programs designed to debilitate the citizen.  He is taught he is an animal, a victim, nothing more than chemicals and an accident of nature.  The lost people of today look to government to give them the wherewithal to live, to guarantee their survival,  and no government can do that and never has despite disingenuous promises and pretentions to public welfare and the workers paradise.

Wealth and freedom go hand-in-hand.  Bureaucracy, by its very nature and presence, parasitically extracts wealth and freedom from society.  As wealth is lost so is freedom and as freedom is lost, so is wealth. 

Wealth and Freedom are created by individuals, not mobs and not governments and not bureaucracies.

Freedom and Wealth require a high level of responsibility in order to be maintained and expanded.  Government bureacracy is a vacuum of individual responsibility.  Nature abhors a vacuum and without firm barriers against it, the natural sucking of life from society by government bureaucracy is invevitable.  That is why the Founders of the USA tried to build firm barriers against big government.

Art flourishes in times of wealth.  The poor benefit from great wealth.  Wealth elevates the quality of life.  Wealth allows us to care for people and the environment.  Want to see a great ecological disaster?  Kill the wealth of the world, and specifically the USA.  It is wealth, not government, that allows us to entertain environmental improvements and find solutions.

The “eat-the-rich” philosophies are espoused by those who themselves cannot produce the necessities upon which they depend.  It is a childish protest against the unfairness of the universe looking to Mother Government to sympathize and compensate.  Rabble-rousing political activists point to the disparity in wealth between the poor and rich.  That disparity does you, or anyone, no harm.  Their wealth does not diminish yours.