Monthly Archives: August 2005

Human Innovation: What happens in the skull stays in the skull

On the dramatic future uses of LED lighting.

The voluntary sector is winning the race to increase human progress (against coercive government’s relentless destruction thereof) by constantly learning how to do more-and-more with less-and-less.

Human Innovation: Fog Out!

And the super bugs die!:::

But you wouldn’t know it from watching the nightly news, or listening to politicians.:::

Will a nano-particle cure your cancer, fix your damaged genes, restore your lost youth, and extend your life?:::

Are gasoline prices too high? No they are not. They are exactly what they should be in order to make good things happen. :::

Here are 11 chances (and $50 million) to do it. And not a dime involves taxpayers money. How is that possible?

A fundamental flaw in most Americans’ thinking is that they confuse Society with the State. They think of the two as virtually synonymous. But they’re not. ::::::The State, properly defined, refers to centralized rule by politicians and their appointed surrogates. (Note: Downsize DC uses the term “Big Government” because most folks can readily understand that and we’ll use that term throughout this lesson.) But Society is so much more. ::::::This confusion about the difference between government and society is not a new problem. Thomas Paine recognized it in 1776, in Common Sense:::::::

“Some writers have so confounded government with society, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one…”

::::::How does this problem manifest itself in our time?:::