Canada Compared with US Institutional Failure Risk

Walter, Dick Morris, President Clinton’s political strategist, until Morris got caught with a hooker, wrote a book called eVote. In it he talks about information (true), misinformation (half-true through ignorance, oversight), and disinformation (purposely false, misleading). He points out that survival today depends in large part on our ability to distinguish among them, for we base our decisions, actions on what we know, or think we know. He restates your point here, and vice versa.

I just finished Mark Steyn’s After America (2011). In it he argues, that decline is one thing; fall is another. Societies go into declines, as did Rome, but its fall was rather abrupt when barbarians stormed the city. He predicts something like that is at work right now, a decline, and suddenly, an abrupt, surprise fall. What your humble servant here sees is the crack up of the now overly-centralized industrial approach to systems, e.g. education, economics, politics, etc. Steyn makes the same argument.

Morris by the way argues that the Internet, as it is now, allows us to bypass these co-opted, centralized systems.

In other words, decentralization will replace the present outmoded, dysfunctional centralization – Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” here – get the old off the road to make way for the new. We cannot save these centralized systems from themselves; we are best engaged with nurturing our own peace of mind, encouraging entrepreneurship to plant new decentralized seeds, and preserving the best traditions given to us for tomorrow, cf. the medieval monks.

I look at people around me, and on the whole, I see good people. They do not deserve to be abused. I am simply doing what I can to soften, remove the abuse.

I am now reading a fab study of the Copperheads, the anti-war Northerners. What is striking is how many of them anticipate the same arguments today, here, e.g. the preservation of some semblance of constitutional government. They also opposed over-centralization; they even proposed a third country – US, Confederates, and the Northwest Confederation of the Great Lakes States.

We are going to experience, at least here, the same stresses, as Celente argues, toward secession that once drove the agenda here. Call it secession, call it local control, call it decentralization, but it will be resistance to the over-centralized systems that in the US are bleeding us to death on many levels.

Thank God every day you are in Canada. You are not at war. You do not have vampires in charge of your economy. You do not have a parasitic under-class. Your economy is robust. You do not have people carrying concealed weapons all over the place. You are not polarized as are people here, more and more, which is frightening, for it recalls the Copperheads and the dynamics of the US Civil War. We do not need to repeat some variation on that sad story; at the present rate, we are risking institutional failure; what flows from it could be ugly.

However, God is good. We shall always be disappointed if we put our trust in men, human institutions, in the final analysis. We are off to Amish / Mennonite country in Eastern Ohio next week for several days en route to Florida. They offer a model, which we have discussed before, about how to be in but not of the world. Amen. Amen. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.