RTG-85-2011-01-11
11/01/11
Interview with Jerry Robinson of Follow The Money where we mainly discuss privacy and the long-term economic implications of the relentless advance of technology.
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Awesome interview. I’ll summarize what my self reflection was from this interview.
We surely are in a freaky age, one in which the nation states are losing their economic value regarding how they serve our needs. It is coming to pass that their promises were only just that, promices, based sadly on mis-representations and mis-appropriations. Governments and political organizations are so wasteful with their spending in comparison to the free market. For example, it costs much more for the government to build something like a bomb in comparison to an Afgan ‘terrorist’. In order for the US government to make a bomb, it costs say maybe 100 thousand dollars, but for an Afgan pyrotechnics expert, it costs him only 100 dollars. In order to equip themselves, the fighters in Afganistan spend much less and they know that the Americans have to spend much money in order to face them, in order to achieve the same outcome. For the fighters in the middle East, it is simply much cheaper for them to fight a war than it is for the Americans. This is a fact that they must obviously know. Obviously, this was a fact that worked against the Soviets when they invaded Afganistan in the 1980′s. Perhaps there will be a similar outcome with regard to the the push made by the American government in its invasion and use of violence in the Middle East. This is an example of the failure of governments to act virtuously and to act prudently. The violence and waste of capital in the manufacture and detonation of bombs is a tremendous waste of capital, lives and potential economic prosperity. Sadly, this wasted money could have been used responsibly in order to create econimic conditions that would benefit people’s lives. Furthermore, the current paradigm, with its lack of efficiency and usefulness is a drag on the populace as a whole. It enslaves its devotees through taxation and inflation. It controls them via propaganda and it also distorts the sense of reality which its subscribers attest to. Instead of living virtuously, they have instead lived wastefully, violently and destructively.
Comment by Scott — January 12, 2011 @ 12:20 am