I was just telling a foreign co-worker how just over the last 50 years or so we have had many freedom surrounding land ownership taken away under the guise the EPA and eminent domain etc...
Every year we have less and less freedom and the public pushes its finger further and further up its nose.
No. The progression is unidirectional and a function of the expanding population and the temporal distance from the generation that made the Republic. There can be glitches and slowing but there will be no change in direction save we figure how to get off the planet to another. There are no more spaces on Earth sufficiently empty for misfits and malcontents who want to do their own things in their own ways to escapt to.
I will have to read this.
OTOH, I am listening to “The Gulag Archipelago” for the third or fourth time, and it sounds pretty darn relevant to me right now.
"The little book was smuggled into the occupied countries. It was copied, mimeographed, printed on hand presses in cellars, and I have seen a copy laboriously hand written on scrap paper and tied together with twine" ... "The Germans ... made it a capital crime to possess it, and sadly to my knowledge this sentence was carried out a number of times." ... "The book itself became a romantic, but true story. At most it gave support to the courage of many people in desperate circumstances, at the very least it gave evidence of our faith in them and their cause at a time when faith was a very precious commodity." ... "In years after, Steinbeck was decorated by the King of Norway for his contribution to the morale of the Norweigian underground."
Many folks long to get their freedom back, those old enough to remember what was like 40 years ago but they don’t want to give up their government benefits either. It is up to my generation, the baby boomers to turn things around but we have to positively desire to give up Social Security and Medicare and all the rest as part of the surgery necessary to give this economy new life. If we could do that and eliminate 95% of the federal and UN inspired regulation of everything and the taxes on business we would go through a very hard couple of quarters but then we would come back to the top of the world and stay there very fast. The millenials for the most part don’t have any concept of freedom beyond free sex of all sorts and free medicine free sustenance. They have no tools to compare and contrast systems and schemes to be able to determine what will work and what will not. They learned no history and not much reading or anything else useful in school. That is a deficit the society cannot overcome.
It’s an interesting book.
I found a first edition 20 years ago for $5.00.
Still have it. It’s worth more than the entire Obama administration combined.