The power of innovation

We've come too far to turn back now. In spite of all the manipulations by government which make me at times want to move to an island and forget it all, I look past the MSM's portrayal of America's hot mess and the global crisis and I see the dynamic movement of creative people which will define the future and leave dullard statists wondering how it all passed them by. We've come too far. The future belongs to a new breed of geniuses and producers and artists and brain-workers and service providers and craftspeople, and, yes, laborers who have tools other generations couldn't imagine. It's always been that way, I suppose, except now we've reached a different level where changes will be mindblowing, quick and dramatic. The base for change is more complex and the accumulated knowledge is increasing like never before.

This buildup of technological knowledge and expertise is busting the seams of an old structure of power and control. I believe we're in a lull of doubt before an explosion of innovation which will render obsolete most of what we witness today from nation-states. We may be witnessing a dual movement of statist collapse and technological revolution, with the state delusionally writing the narrative as a government-led transformation. The silence regarding free enterprise's newest promise is deafening -- while the media covers and makes excuses for the latest tax-dodging government appointment and announces another government scheme to patch a hole in the dike.

The social scientist's bed-wetting concern over technology de-humanizing us all has failed to materialize as we cheerfully embrace innovations which move us further and further, cyber-wise and technology-wise, beyond the reach of a sluggish state. This last gasp of statism is making the best use it can of the economic lull in order to make a stand, but it's legs are as weak as its collective mind. State control of dying industries and daddy fat-cat banks is a desparate move to avoid the reality of failure.  The state defense of public education and the welfare state is a reactionary justification for its existence while potential change and innovative possibilities lie in wait -- and as the new breed of entrepreneurs wait for showtime, a nation absorbs the information flow which increases through growing channels. To many, the revelation of a state in conflict with its limitations and aspirations is an awakening to where we stand in history -- if the over-reaching state reveals itself to be the manipulative obstacle some of us know it to be, the rest will realize the emptiness of government's benevolent claims and the obstacles will be removed. We've come to far to allow a dying power structure to support dying industries and institutions at the expense of progress.

The state has done a grand job conflating government with America, but it's always been doomed to faliure, just as extreme failure keeps North Korea in darkness and, to a lesser degree of failure, keeps Europe in perpetual mediocrity and gradual decay. To the extent America has been different and more amenable to free enterprise and an open, free society, we've advanced a standard of living which no one 50 years ago could imagine, and we didn't come this far to tear it all down.