The Answer -- You Won't Like It

Instead of crying that there is a problem, people should find out why there is a problem.


The answers are there.  Buried under politics, mob mentality, victimhood, and greed.  Those very factors are the reason the answers will never be popular.  Facts are not politically correct.




Take, for instance, the financial melt-down of Chicago schools and the incredibly high crime rate.  Some point to Dems, some point to race, some point to racism, others to gun control leaving the guns in the hands of criminals.  Nobody, nobody, talks about personal responsibility and making better choices.




This is the digital/information age.  There is not one person who is not aware that there is a better life.  There is not one person who can possibly believe that their street, their neighborhood, their family dynamic holds true for the entire world, and that's all there is.




Choose to believe that you can't have better, and you won't have better.  But don't say that it's someone else's fault you don't succeed.




In a grander sense, this infection of helplessness is the root of the Chicago ills.  People have turned their lives over to social engineers, politicians, unions, hate-mongering racists, and crushing bureaucracy.  Stupid, wasteful decisions in spending and programming have driven all potential for true education from schools.  The social engineers merrily experiment on kids, turning them into puppets dependent on media to tell them how to feel, vote, respond, and live.  Schools feed them, punish them by withdrawing food or giving them garbage in a highly-public manner, crack down on any show of compassion between students that is not state-approved, and foster an air of helplessness as teachers are not allowed to get classes under control.




All of this sets up kids to see that the strong and brutal survive.  If you want to eat, you take the food from someone else, whether by theft or by handout.  Money?  That comes from the state, or from taking from those you consider to be your enemies.  Problem-resolution is through violence, because nobody can stop you.




And it's all someone else's fault.




Don't ask why there is a problem.  You won't like the answer.

This Perfect Day -- or Not

So Mr deGrasse advocates a virtual country with an evidence-based rule of the land.

First, virtual, I believe, means having no physical presence. Therefore, "solid" evidence is impossible. Any "evidence" would be in the form of images, which we all know can be manipulated. If the evidence to which he refers is that of what is acknowledged as fact regarding the physical world, that comes down through the generations from teachers, who put their own slant into the knowledge they impart. Scientists argue all the time about what is and isn't. It can get pretty nasty and bloody, in fact.

Second, it is not possible to exist in a virtual country. Certainly many virtual "countries" already exist, Facebook, Minecraft, those other games that are deep and involved. Even those worldwide communities that exist on the Internet can be considered countries, with their own rules and administration. But you can't eat a Hot Pocket within the Internet.

Third, though the headline states that he "proposes government system known as 'Rationalia'," I see nothing in his tweet stating that he wants the American Government, or any other nation, to dump their constitutions in favor of his ever-so-logical ideal world view. Which is based, of course, on his belief system. Everything else, the analysis of his proposal, the support from his followers and the entire essays from his detractors (responding to one Twitter line), and what will certainly be a media firestorm, is entirely manufactured based on the usual Internet hysteria.  None of the interpretations are based on fact.  He didn't say a thing about changing our government.

A tweet, like a blog post, or a newspaper article, or a history book, is one person's opinion.  As I've said before, an expert is only someone who has convinced enough other people that his or her opinions are fact.

People need to stop getting worked up over one line.