No reflection, no comprehension.

Wait for the cage…

You have no idea what the definition of treason actually is, do you?

Just wait for the cage little doggie.

Moron.

Bush was an idiot who deceived all americans. This man is the reason the economy is in the shape it is today. I cannot imagine that there are people out there today who embrace him as anything else other than an idiot. His father was a smart man, however, and served his country as president and with the CIA. Voice your opinion on this subject at the following website:

http://gdowell1950.wordpress.com/

As for “BIG” government, I trust a government in which I have a vote which is equal to that of every other man and women. I don’t trust a market or a corporate, private power structure, in which one dollar is one vote, and the rich have a hugely disproportionate more dollars than the poor.

In short, if indeed we have a democracy as our founders intended, then I must trust the government, because I *am* the government– we all are.

I think that people who view “the government” as something other than themselves, don’t really understand what our founders were intending to set up. Remember, it’s supposed to be “of the people, by the people, for the people”.

The Founders of this great experiment known as the USA were men (and women) who learned first hand from personal experience and from their superior education (as compared to the drivel that passes for higher education today) that all powerful governments are to be distrusted. That the individual and the small groups known as the nuclear and extended families are the foundational unit of any society. The Nazi’s (National Socialists) showed us in our last century that Left wing zealotry leads to disaster. Yes, Left wing. They were socialists who promoted big government, abortion, population control, and they hated religion in general both Jews and Christians. Not unlike the Left, collectivists in America.

The Liberal, collectivist mind disdains these ideas… They have been conditioned by public (and some private) education institutions, (dying) main stream media to trust Liberal/collectivist Nanny state government.

If you believe in a God, Read, Witness, by Whitakker Chambers, Liberty & Tyranny, by Mark Levin and Common Sense by G. Beck.. Read the reviews also..not all good but They can’t fault their research.. The critics can only call names.

When I was in High School and College I discovered that whenever I attempted to have a conversation with a Liberal, collectivist…. I would present my ideas and the Liberal having no real ideas but only slogans to retort with, would within five minutes digress into name calling…. ” racist, war monger, homophobe, etc.” It was predictable and sadly amusing.

Jct: For people who don’t trust their neighbors to honor the IOUs owed to the timebank, there are the cash-buy-in models like Berkshares which make them as trustworthy as poker chips backed up by cash too.
I trust my neighbor’s IOU so they’re both good to me.
When the local currency is pegged to the Time Standard of Money (how many dollars per unskilled hour child labor) Hours earned locally can be intertraded with other timebanks globally! In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours. U.N. Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments is for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture.
See http://youtube.com/kingofthepaupers

Your larger point is interesting. Long Now does have sort of a twilight-of-civilization feel to it. Especially compared to Brand’s earlier Whole Earth efforts, which were more about building alternative means of survival of humans, and not just their cultural artifacts.