The God of the Machine - Tranche #1
Chapter One, Excerpt 1 of 3
The Energy Circuit of the Classical World
Nations are not powerful because they possess wide lands, safe ports, large navies, huge armies, fortifications, stores, money, and credit. They acquire those advantages because they are powerful, having devised on correct principles the political structure which allows the flow of energy to take its proper course. The principles of conversion of energy and of its appropriate mechanism for human use cannot change; these are universals.
The struggle between Greece and Carthage had been going on for centuries and was still undecided when Pytheas made his voyage. Within fifty years, Rome thrust between the two, commencing the long, bitter, intermittent effort that broke the Phoenician power, razed the walls of Carthage, and left the site a waste. Nor did the Greeks benefit by the ruin of their mighty antagonist; on the contrary, the subjection of Greece was to follow shortly. Economic determinism failed.
Pytheas opened the way, where the Phoenicians, for all their shrewdness and hardihood and their factual priority, did not; because he was endowed with the rare combination of disinterested curiosity, speculative intellect, and active enterprise, qualities which impelled him to slip through an official barrier of the utmost rigor to try the chances of the unknown. Pytheas ranks among the notable discoverers, an exemplar of a free mind. He could not know that he was looking toward America.
The Energy Circuit of the Classical World
Nations are not powerful because they possess wide lands, safe ports, large navies, huge armies, fortifications, stores, money, and credit. They acquire those advantages because they are powerful, having devised on correct principles the political structure which allows the flow of energy to take its proper course. The principles of conversion of energy and of its appropriate mechanism for human use cannot change; these are universals.
The struggle between Greece and Carthage had been going on for centuries and was still undecided when Pytheas made his voyage. Within fifty years, Rome thrust between the two, commencing the long, bitter, intermittent effort that broke the Phoenician power, razed the walls of Carthage, and left the site a waste. Nor did the Greeks benefit by the ruin of their mighty antagonist; on the contrary, the subjection of Greece was to follow shortly. Economic determinism failed.
Pytheas opened the way, where the Phoenicians, for all their shrewdness and hardihood and their factual priority, did not; because he was endowed with the rare combination of disinterested curiosity, speculative intellect, and active enterprise, qualities which impelled him to slip through an official barrier of the utmost rigor to try the chances of the unknown. Pytheas ranks among the notable discoverers, an exemplar of a free mind. He could not know that he was looking toward America.
Most fail from without, some fail from within.
No matter what metric you use for measure, America is in free fall.
> Open borders.
> Dirty & corrupt politicians too busy feeding at the trough to service their constitute.
> Fiscal mismanagement in the extreme.
> Needless and unjustified interference in external affairs.
> Central Bank ownership and taxation that never passed congress.
> 3-letter agency controlled media.
> A woke public that can't determine what sex they are by looking down their drawers.
I could go on, but you get the picture, this once proud Republic is failing on every front you can name. Stick a fork in Lady Liberty, she's done.
Hate to be a Doggy-Downer, but no nation has faced even a fraction of these issues and survived. Wake up America, the ship is taking on water at an alarming rate. As the engineer on the Titanic said to the captain: "it is mathematically impossible for the ship to stay afloat." Make your plans for the disintegration. Hey think of it as an opportunity to refashion the country in the founders image, but make no mistake, the situation we find ourselves in is no accident, the small handful of people (Prussians) who actually run this world have set these things in motion for one purpose: to take this country down & over. These are the claws of the animals you will have to wrest the nation from. Do we have it in us? My observation has taught me, so long as people are comfortable in their circumstances, they will sit in their Lazy-Boy loungers while their houses burn down around them. Change only occurs when you make people uncomfortable enough to move.
And one hell of a battle to wage.
Never underestimate the strength and cunning of your enemy.
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Imagine growing up where kids needed summer school. Our school district had to cancel it. Despite new teachers making < $18k/yr, the 8 teachers required to run summer school were costing over $200k... Well, looking into it. Unions made it so teachers who volunteered were selected by Seniority. Making only the most expensive, OLD, Crodgity Teachers apply for it.
And their net income increase, also increased the EOY salary increases. After 10yrs of this abuse, the costs, which were originally designed to be the newest/cheapest teachers were transferred to the most expensive, and usually laziest teachers...
1,000 small things like that. Eventually breaks. In Florida... The "Classroom Reduction Act" Is actually the "Hire 20% more teachers act".
And they still think group kids by skill is Racist and Evil.
They submit because they are too stupid not to!
governments must be of the dictatorial variety. What must we do to convince our fellow humans that
this must change?
This book contains much that can help us understand what is happening to America today should we choose to use it.
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