intellectual strong man. He swatted me back with a retort that made me question whether I really had any intellectual rigor in my thinking and my “arguments”. It caused me to wake up and do more listening and less positing from a position of weakness - not physical weakness, but that which derives from intellectual THINKING weakness. Methinks it would be worthwhile to spend time with a man of your intellectual rigor, your thoroughness of thought and historical perspective that can only come from intense study, reflecting, meditating…and hard, hard work. Perhaps some time in the near future such a possibility will arise - if so, I intend to seize it by the throat.
In your epistle to Walker, here is a paragraph that caught my sharp attention.
You see? This mess was not caused by the children, nor caused by the kids in their twenties, nor those in their thirties, nor even those in their forties. This mess is the accumulation of a silent slide in morals and values and honesty and accountability that has accelerated gradually since 1930. In fact, it is a regular long-term cycle of man called the Kondratieff Wave………..as history repeats over and over, again.
Two points to be made, perhaps. One, the silent slide in morals and values etc. began with the trigger: founding of the Fed. Followed on by an unjust war. Followed on by a destruction of honest weights and measures that simply gained overpowering strength during the 1920s. Culminating in the economic collapse we call the Great Depression. By the time FDR, the biggest enemy of freedom this country has ever experienced, came into power (and it was power, much more than just a presidency), the ground had been tilled, fertilized and watered for the grandiose destruction of not just our freedoms but our very Republic. All that has been left to unfold is the cancer JP Morgan and his gang, Wilson, and then FDR, infected our society, culture and nation with to, as you put it, accelerate gradually. The recent exponential decline in our Republic is akin to the final stages of cancer, when a tipping point is reached and nothing can stop the multiplication of the deadly cancer cells.
I would be up for a fight. But simply am at a loss as to how to fight this. I wish the ignorant, those who choose to be and those who never stood a chance, no ill, for sure. I wish there was some Fairy Godmother that could wave a magic wand and protect them. Yet the same information I have, and you have, that we all have access to, is there for them. And many of us have carried coals of warning, of sirens, of great horn blasts trying to warn of pending disaster. Warnings to prepare, to wake up, to get smart, to assume the responsibility God gave them to be responsible, to be self-governed and not feed from the public trough. Too late, I fear, simply too late.
I have listened to the bubble heads steal the very crux of RP’s call to answer the question: what is the role of government? Only to then ignore the thought required, the implications, and keep on truckin’ down the fascist road. This is not as it appears, not a slippery slide into socialism, but a headlong rush into fascism, with the government and business in cahoots to line their pockets while harnessing the labor and freedom of the great unwashed, from thought police to a society and culture of fear, with the government always, always held out as the ultimate answer. Not a fascism like we saw with Hitler, but a fascism like Mussolini, only “better”, more powerful, more pervasive. The original abolishment of honest weights and measures, upon which all great nations and societies are built, began with that fateful gathering on Jekyll Island and will not end (if ever) until the enemies of honest money are dispersed from power and honest weights and measures restored.