As for the natural selection of the 'markets' eliminating the cooks and the crooks, keep dreaming. Encouraging and supporting failure while punishing and discouraging success has been the law in most of the worlds and our government is curretly expending lots of resources to enforce the above rule.
And... thanks for trying so hard to stick a label on my views. Trust me. I'm not happy that we are heading where we are heading - I have kids too. But... I'm sorry to say, we ARE heading that way. If you disagree, please describe Earth let's say, 1000 years from today.
20 years ago we were at the brink of a nuclear holocaust.
Roughly 50 years ago, Europe and Japan were smoking ruins.
100 years ago Europe was was carving up the entire planet into fascistic fiefdoms.
I don't know how you quantify "rationality".
What has changed is our destructive capacity is growing. The Democratization of WMD is not a good thing but a natural outcome of the Cold War.
As for the natural selection of the 'markets' eliminating the cooks and the crooks, keep dreaming. Encouraging and supporting failure while punishing and discouraging success has been the law in most of the worlds and our government is curretly expending lots of resources to enforce the above rule.
Dead on. Government's only legitimate function is the defense of life,liberty and property. The Enlightenment is under attack and is dying. It will most likely perish in Europe. In America? Not if I can help it.
And... thanks for trying so hard to stick a label on my views. Trust me. I'm not happy that we are heading where we are heading - I have kids too. But... I'm sorry to say, we ARE heading that way. If you disagree, please describe Earth let's say, 1000 years from today.
I should have put more glue on that label, it fell right off. I don't think genocide will help anything. Label me an optimist.