Hello straightlinelogic,
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best." Edward Abbey
Regards,
O.A.

What a great comparison. It could make even the dullest lefty understand if they had the will to sweep away all the crap clouding their perception.
It probably all started when humanity, instead of succumbing to their environment, started to change the environment to suit them. Along came some primitive sidewalk superintendent who tried to convince that if he was only listened to, the project would be safer and better. For the next umpteen thousand years the conflict between those who wrote and talked a good game and those actually accomplished things. It grew until the fate of the world rested on basically two camps. Those who would control humanity for "altruistic" reasons and those who preferred the freedom of doing it themselves.
Oh, hell -- Gore said it better.

Me dino has just now been inspired to think this here thought~ta da!~
Obama's eight-year-old statement, "I want to level the playing field" was about everyone in the USA kneeling down together in order to be the same.
That progressive concept really did not catch on.

the meaning and power of liberty and freedom...posted to facebook...

Interesting. I thought of putting those words on my truck in a custom window decal. "Get Off Your Knees!" Some would understand...

Rand's Selfish is the New Celfish or rational celf interest. Just as Rand's philosophy can be taken down to the cellular level of survival, she was correct, it is in each man's own interest to survive.
Such is the charge and responsibility given to each and every cell in our bodies.

To do otherwise spells death. The so called "special" people that would ignore every cell in their bodies now act "selfishly" in denial of those cells.

The idea that people could live their lives unplanned always brings about the cry, "Then there would be chaos!" The idea of dying slowly because of massive controls, debt and forbidding ideas and free trade that has not been approved is more appealing to the masses than the rewards of living free. I started in this fight 47 years ago and have seen nothing going in the direction of freedom, it has all been toward slavery and may soon be absolute slavery where nothing is traded, bought, sold, built or even imagined without prior approval of the state and the masses that support and prefer it. The only thing I ask is that 'the special people' let me be free. Of course they quickly realize that like an infection others may see the results and the idea would quickly spread leaving them with only a pittance of control.
This election has proven that there are still some people who think that voting for a different despot will have different results. The only difference will be the method in which we arrive at the same place, absolute slavery that covers the globe.

Robert I agree with your premise. I also agree with that zoo's are not ecologically friendly to their inmates. Some try hard to replicate the animals habitat. Unfortunately, many of those animal are nearing extinction through Poachers that have been praying upon them. I follow Instructor Zero on Funker Tactical You Tube Channel, who went to Africa to train anti-poaching personnel in military style tactics to stop poachers. The rangers who patrol these wildlife refuges are not very well equipped and poorly trained to stop illegal human predation for profit. Seeing Instructor Zero training these Rangers gave me hope that zoo's will stop there own predation.

Nice article straightlinelogic.

"The idea that changing the hands on the levers offers solutions is magical thinking."

A most intriguing statement -- especially after your scathing comments regarding current governments and anarchy. I shall have to give considerable thought to this.

I didn't expect to agree with much of what this art-
icle said, and was pleasantly surprised; then I
realized why it was so much better than I had ex-
pected; the first name was "Robert" and not
"Al".