Just a thought as we approach July 4th

from an article in "Capitalism Magazine"

"Put the "Independence" Back in Independence Day"

by Michael Berliner (June 26, 2008)

"Political independence is not a primary. It rests on a more fundamental type of independence: the independence of the human mind. It is the ability of a human being to think for himself and guide his own life that makes political independence possible and necessary. The government as envisaged by the Founding Fathers existed to protect the freedom to think and to act on one's thinking. If human beings were unable to reason, to think for themselves, there would be no autonomy or independence for a government to protect. It is this independence that defines the American Revolution and the American spirit."

Global Gain

A very well written article...

"But the very idea that we need to fear the global rise of living standards is flawed, because it assumes that everything else stays the same. It insists we are playing some sort of zero-sum game, and that for the developing world to rise, those in the West must fall."

A rising tide lifts all boats in a truly long term Capitalist world. People have been attacking Capitalism recently, but in reality, they should be attacking individuals.

Don't let simple minded people push you away from truth.

Am I not really a Capitalist?

I have a reoccurring thought...and I debate it with myself. I haven't gotten very far, but that might be because of the fundamental nature of it...or maybe I am just barking down the wrong tree. :-)

We Human Beings do live in a finite world. A finite world in which limitations are inherent. Our philosophies thus have limitations in them as well, maybe not expressed, but in the application of them absolutely. For instance, Capitalism is a fundamentally flawed theory that is impossible to apply to our world. One of the basic tenets of Capitalism is the free flow of perfect information. Since we humans don't have the ability to communicate knowledge instantly and perfectly to our peers we hit a wall. That limitation of knowledge becomes one of the basic tenets of our economy now a days - that is that knowledge is power. A limitation of knowledge allows certain things to occur - monopolies for one and don't allow certain other things to occur as well and widely as they could - for instance the ability for small start up to fill in the weaknesses leftover by large slow moving corporations. Instead the accumulation of knowledge and power and politics within the large groups allows for them to become self fulfilling prophecies of policy.

Now I also think that as we approach pure Capitalism we will shed a lot of things in society...the corporation for one. Why would you need a large bureaucratic body running your company if all know most everything that they need in their home? As our technology advances and we turn into little factories all our own we will become more and more independent. At some point we will no longer need the societal support to produce...course in this happy go lucky world we have learned how to break down socks into their base atoms and reconstruct them into microprocessors.

John Galt is my hero. I believe in the long term...I guess I am a Capitalist. I just don't believe I have ever seen Capitalism, sort of like I have never seen a ghost.

Just because you are my friends...

A good friend of mine showed me a column in the Palm Beach Post -- The Palm Beach Post & Frank Cerabino

As a result of that column I then did a google search and found this -- Argos Cherry Casket by Universal Expedited Shipping Solid Cherry Wood