Nature's God

ISBN-13: 9781482756937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str.

Steve Wunsch; Portia Rollings

Opis

About Nature's God America was founded on freedom, supposedly. So how come government intrudes into every aspect of our lives now? How come tyranny is back? Socialism, the modern term for tyranny, was not yet in use in 1776. But the Founders would have had no difficulty recognizing that the socialist redistribution at the core of American policy today is incompatible with the unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness that they thought they put in our Declaration of Independence and protected in perpetuity with our Constitution. What happened? Nature's God describes how Western governments all became functionally socialist, and how the United States, ironically the most deliberately free country ever, is leading the march to this new tyranny. The origins of redistributive socialism are discovered to be ancient and rooted in the primitive instincts of war. But their modern manifestation began with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Civil War, which created the paradigm of socialist intervention that threatens us today. Surprisingly, it was "the great emancipator" that set us on this trajectory, one that is now less about freedom and more about global conquest, as the War on Terror becomes the chief danger to our economic and physical security. Domestically, redistribution is creating economic decline and unemployment. Abroad, it is creating enemies that want to blow us up. "Redistributionism" has become the functional equivalent of a state religion in spite of the First Amendment, and is now the central moral value underlying an interconnected lattice of government solutions to all problems, foreign and domestic. Occupy Wall Street's concerns over inequality and the 99% are consistent with the concerns of the SEC and the level playing field the Commission's National Market System was supposed to create. Instead, it produced high frequency trading and dysfunctions like the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, the Facebook IPO and the Knightmare of August 1, 2012. These are the latest flashpoints on the path of decline that redistribution is taking us down. And they are signs that, for all the freedom we Americans still espouse, our legacy is in danger of bearing more resemblance to the horrific socialist tyrannies of the twentieth century, namely Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and Soviet Communism. If we are able to avoid this fate, it may be because modern network science will help us rediscover what our Founders were talking about. Network effect theory can show us where we went wrong when, for example, we deliberately destroyed under antitrust the most fundamental and valuable elements of our infrastructure, such as the stock exchanges that create new companies, jobs and wealth. The new science of networks can give meaning again to the freedom our Founders had in mind, and may point the way back to an America living under "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." In Nature's God, the reader will discover that there is a practical way back to freedom. It is a way that is very different from what all the politicians talk about. But it is a way that will actually work.

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