Nuclear Information

So let’s say it’s the Wild West and anyone can have whatever weapons they want. It’s like Iran, only perhaps less so because Iran was subsidized by Obama, and the Wild West is more free than Iran. Anyway, that’s what we are supposing here, total free market.But, people are still constrained by monetary limitations. The average middle class family won’t be able to own Nuclear Weapons. But Jeff Bezos could own Nuclear Weapons. Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Sergey Brin could own Nuclear Weapons. And that makes you think; is your ability to monetize a few software tricks really the best way to determine who should have the most weapons? The most power? “That might be dangerous.” “They might hurt people.” But how is this any different from giving them the keys to all information?

iuAnd not just their direct manipulation of their Media and Social Media platforms, but we give them extra credibility because they have a bunch of money. As if any of them have a clue about Political Philosophy, much less the History of Political Philosophy. As if programming a huge database equips you to rule as a Philosopher King. In addition their money is as good as any other.  Jeff Bezos takes huge losses until competition is out of business, then he starts buying newspapers.

I think I would rather they did own Nuclear Weapons than that they own the ‘truth’. And that world would be much freer in other ways. It would be a lot more dangerous and a lot more fun. And middle class men wouldn’t be killing themselves in mass numbers.

In the 1700’s we rewarded Benjamin Franklin for hard work.

Today we reward gimicks and get-rich-quick schemes becuase that is what we want, that is what we value.

Our shoddy leadership is the result, we get the leaders we want.

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