Re: Fusion's promise
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:51 pm
Chris Bradley wrote:
> Alex deeply bemoans why we don't see that things could simply be done better, then the problems we have could be avoided. Why indeed? "Politics, dear boy." It is simply politics. Humans are political creatures. Humans are no more adapted by evolution to be able to fly as they are to be able to agree to collectively do the best/right thing. ... if humans were collectively capable of doing anything near to what you ask,
Who knows what is right or wrong? You or me? Or the central planing committee called the federal government, which is getting fatter and fatter? No, the knowledge is distributed among all the people, not the collective knows what is right, but the people.
> Alex, then why do people still war with each other? If folks can't figure out there's no benefit killing each other for no darned reason,
Who is making war? You or me? No, it's the governments. Instead of going to war, now in Mali, we should just drop guns from helicopters so that every woman and every child has one to defend themselves. Where would the drug dealing warlords be, if the ordinary people had the means to protect themselves? Where would the muslime brotherhoods paid with oil dollars be?
> then what hope is there to get them to collectively agree to support advanced technology projects to the benefit of all mankind?!?!?
They will do the right thing sooner or later. They will one day realize that free health care is not that free. We had that in Russia and it did not work out. You will have to pay for it one way or the other, and if you think the government can do a better job at handling your money, you are dead wrong.
What we now have is crony capitalism moving more and more towards socialism, the once proud and free people will not be free and they will pay dearly for letting politicians bribe them for their votes to get more handouts. The US economy is in free fall, due to the fat government and the creeping socialism. It was at 30% of global GDP 10 years ago and is approaching 20% of global GDP now. If that does not scare people yet, maybe it has to get worse and they will have to go to 10% or maybe even to 5%, but eventually they will get up and request their country back, they will ask for their personal and economic freedom again, they will ask for free markets or they will go down and give the stage to China and India who are now getting out from under the thumb of socialism.
The people are still free to chose in America, and even if they have chosen a retarded liberal government that is spending trillions like the was no tomorrow, one day, they will come to their senses with a big hangover.
There is no need to worry, China and India and Brasil are working on making the molten salt thorium reactor a reality, China is building 25 nuclear power plants by 2015 and will build another 70 or so by 2020. There is no stopping them. There is no stopping genetics to benefit mankind, the question is only do you want to be a part of it or not, will America still be a part of advanced technological projects for the benefit of mankind or not. The answer to this question will determine the standard of living and the live expectancy in the USA. And government health care, taking guns from the people, ignoring the constitution and spending yet another trillion and more food stamps are not the right answer.
The right answer is freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
> Alex deeply bemoans why we don't see that things could simply be done better, then the problems we have could be avoided. Why indeed? "Politics, dear boy." It is simply politics. Humans are political creatures. Humans are no more adapted by evolution to be able to fly as they are to be able to agree to collectively do the best/right thing. ... if humans were collectively capable of doing anything near to what you ask,
Who knows what is right or wrong? You or me? Or the central planing committee called the federal government, which is getting fatter and fatter? No, the knowledge is distributed among all the people, not the collective knows what is right, but the people.
> Alex, then why do people still war with each other? If folks can't figure out there's no benefit killing each other for no darned reason,
Who is making war? You or me? No, it's the governments. Instead of going to war, now in Mali, we should just drop guns from helicopters so that every woman and every child has one to defend themselves. Where would the drug dealing warlords be, if the ordinary people had the means to protect themselves? Where would the muslime brotherhoods paid with oil dollars be?
> then what hope is there to get them to collectively agree to support advanced technology projects to the benefit of all mankind?!?!?
They will do the right thing sooner or later. They will one day realize that free health care is not that free. We had that in Russia and it did not work out. You will have to pay for it one way or the other, and if you think the government can do a better job at handling your money, you are dead wrong.
What we now have is crony capitalism moving more and more towards socialism, the once proud and free people will not be free and they will pay dearly for letting politicians bribe them for their votes to get more handouts. The US economy is in free fall, due to the fat government and the creeping socialism. It was at 30% of global GDP 10 years ago and is approaching 20% of global GDP now. If that does not scare people yet, maybe it has to get worse and they will have to go to 10% or maybe even to 5%, but eventually they will get up and request their country back, they will ask for their personal and economic freedom again, they will ask for free markets or they will go down and give the stage to China and India who are now getting out from under the thumb of socialism.
The people are still free to chose in America, and even if they have chosen a retarded liberal government that is spending trillions like the was no tomorrow, one day, they will come to their senses with a big hangover.
There is no need to worry, China and India and Brasil are working on making the molten salt thorium reactor a reality, China is building 25 nuclear power plants by 2015 and will build another 70 or so by 2020. There is no stopping them. There is no stopping genetics to benefit mankind, the question is only do you want to be a part of it or not, will America still be a part of advanced technological projects for the benefit of mankind or not. The answer to this question will determine the standard of living and the live expectancy in the USA. And government health care, taking guns from the people, ignoring the constitution and spending yet another trillion and more food stamps are not the right answer.
The right answer is freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.