What Do We The People Seek From Government PDF Version
It is easy to notice that, not just with government, but in all aspects of their lives, people tend to end up having what is most important to them. Sometimes they end up having just that one thing and nothing else.
If wealth is genuinely what a person wants, especially if that want is out of proportion to anything else, they are likely to have it, or at least end up with a higher than average income. There is nothing magical about becoming wealthy. It takes a lot of sacrifice. To become wealthy requires, giving up many other things in life that are meaningful to people. Be it love, free time, entertainment those things often must be left on the table.
Most people do not want to give these things up to the degree necessary to achieve great amounts of wealth. There is no problem with that. Wealth does not guarantee happiness.
What about entertainment. If that is what people want, they end up being highly entertained. If alcohol is the most important thing, people may end up with one last fifth of fine Tennessee whisky and nothing else besides liver failure. To some, free time is what matters, and in the end they are prone to have that.
In general, look at what a person has today and that is what is most important to him.
So lets look at what voters or “we the people” have with respect to government. They have elected a government that serves their guardian. What does a guardian do? A guardian makes decisions for those who are incompetent at making decisions for themselves and manages every aspect of their lives.
So, over time government has taken on the role of a guardian. When voters make a choice, they pick the candidate they feel will most likely serve as a good guardian. Since having a guardian is important out of proportion to everything else voters could get from government. A guardian is what they end up with.
Guardian seeking is a hard act to break up. Those who prefer to make their own decisions are a very small minority in the United States. Having a guardian is so important to Americans, they are willing to give up their rights guaranteed to them in the constitution in order to have one. Censorship? Censorship is no problem to Americans when the speech that is censored might end up denying them the guardian they so cherish.
Fantasy Free Economics is a threat to the guardian seeking mentality that pervades the nation. So Fantasy Free Economics is highly censored as are other blogs and sources with dissenting viewpoints and information.
Guardian seekers themselves are not the ones doing the censoring. The censoring is coming from the guardians themselves.Serving as a guardian for huge masses of people is astronomically profitable. More and more guardian arrangement are sought. Fears are even created just so guardians can provide safety and security to to the people they might serve.
There are those who prefer to live independently though the number is shrinking. Unless independent minded people find ways to make their viewpoints known, it is only a matter of time before there are so few of them that they can’t have any impact at all.
Unless independent people make the effort to find sources of genuine information and viewpoints, they may as well throw in the towel now.
Since the censorship efforts have been in place, this is what has happened to my audience. During most of 2019 I was averaging over 1000 reads per day. Now my viewership has dropped to between 75 to 150. Censorship is highly effective.
Not just Fantasy Free Economics but all other blogs with non main street content have suffered in the same way. I have decided not to quit. I will write even if it is only my three sons who read it.
The facts are that our links are not allowed on social media at all. Search engines bury us so deep no one can find us. Firefox advises users that we are not safe. Even ZeroHedge removes comments with links and so on. The only way our blogs can even grow half way back to where they used to be, in terms of readership, is when folks send links out in emails.
That is the situation independent blog writers are in. If our information gets spread around at all, it is because our readers send out our links independently of other media.
On a positive note, it seems the Chinese are once again allowing their citizens to access these kinds of blogs. I am getting hits from China again.
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Thanks Pete, I can use all the help I can get. I have some questions. I a sending you an email.
Yes, I have seen that guy.He’s spot-on. I actually first saw him posted on the other economics blog I read every day – armstrongeconomics.com. Do you ever read his blog? I do find it extremely interesting (and scary) that his Socrates system is calling for a political panic cycle in November 2022 – the first such panic cycle since the Great Depression. Between that and your recent post about martial law possibly coming later this year I am very concerned that we’re entering a period of extreme turbulence unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.
I have been trying to get into armstrongeconomics.com.So far it just has timed out.
I just signed up on WeMe. So far so good but I haven’t tried much.
I’m really glad you decided to keep writing despite the obstacles, James. Hey if it’s any consolation you’ll know you’ll always have at least 4 readers – your three sons and yours truly. I am more than a little disappointed that I haven’t seen zerohedge link to your site. I think a lot of their readers would really appreciate Fantasy Free Economics; they seem generally more intelligent and clued-in than you usually see in most comments sections.
Basically, I do things I like to do. That is why I am not rich. To be rich, I would have to do things I don’t like to do.
Quora was going fairly well but I found out they have a cleaver way to censor.
If they don’t like the answers a question gets. They simply delete the question.
All of my good answers are gone. I mean this is getting scary. Perhaps spooky is a better word.
Have you seen this guy? I don’t know how he manages to keep his channel up.