Let's Make a Deal

[zonsb]

Uploader's/Larken's comment: "I have a very simple deal for you ... and you probably won't take it."




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[eye2i2hear]

The first reply I've gotten from an email send/fwd of the video:

[wait for it!... wait for it!!...]

Quote:Major OUCHIE - and in some ways he's right -- but then -- there is a point at which - we all expect roads, freeways, energy when we turn on a light switch -- and at least a basic government has to be structured.
I do think it's gone way over the top though -- way too much government.

[like We didn't see that response coming... from the proverbial kilometer away]

Ye olde "necessary evil" bit?

side query: has any one posited a theory regarding why it's so often "THE ROADS!?!" that first rolls off the lips of BoobU.S. Erectus Americanus / the typical Citizen? (surely there's some specific indoctrination behind that? is it belief in the dogma/mantra "Eminent Domain"?)

[zonsb]

(11-10-2011 05:42 PM)eye2i2hear Wrote:  The first reply I've gotten from an email send/fwd of the video:

[wait for it!... wait for it!!...]

Quote:Major OUCHIE - and in some ways he's right -- but then -- there is a point at which - we all expect roads, freeways, energy when we turn on a light switch -- and at least a basic government has to be structured.
I do think it's gone way over the top though -- way too much government.

[like We didn't see that response coming... from the proverbial kilometer away]

Ye olde "necessary evil" bit?

side query: has any one posited a theory regarding why it's so often "THE ROADS!?!" that first rolls off the lips of BoobU.S. Erectus Americanus / the typical Citizen? (surely there's some specific indoctrination behind that? is it belief in the dogma/mantra "Eminent Domain"?)

It could be that cars and driving/mobility are so much a part of their lives. The thinking may be that no one would argue we don't need roads and it's one thing government got right; providing roads. It could be a cognitive dissonance issue against eliminating government; roads wins by default because there's no argument against having roads.

If it weren't for government we might be flying about in Jetson style. As for electric power, that would have probably been decentralized and without land-line, power-grid infrastructure. Dirt cheep or nearly free energy would do the heavy lifting that oil, coal and natural gas now do.

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[Jace: Johanson]

I agree with Zonsb, I think. Among all the supposed services to which the government is credited, it appears to the general public to be the one case where the greatest benefit has been provided with the least amount of specific, directed violence. Schools come next, to my thinking, because everyone knows that parents will be imprisoned and have children taken away from them for not aquiescing. The twisted cost/benefits ratio is less here. Police and national defence come in a few pegs after roads because the violence is, obviously, enormous.