Smart Phones Are Counter-Revolutionary
President Obama gave the commencement speech this weekend at Hampton University in Virginia, and showed us once again that when Big O goes off teleprompter and starts to ad lib, his inner tyrant shows through."Meanwhile, you're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't rank all that high on the truth meter. With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment. All of this is not only putting new pressures on you; it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."
What happened to the tech-savvy Obama whose campaign dominated social media in its run for the White House? Or his ever present Blackberry? Funny how if the information is disseminated from him it's empowering, but disagree or contradict him, it's a distraction.
What he's really saying here is that our culture's access to information stands in the way his regime's ambitions to increase it's already massive power base, and that controlling the flow of information is the first step to controlling dissent. Shut down dissent, and his Socialist Mob-acracy falls right into place.
You can have my Hero when you pry it from my cold, dead hands, Barry.
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Imagine a country that has full and free access to information where private interests do not dictate what the individual has access to.
Imagine a country founded on reason and rationality, deriving actions and policies from research and observation.
Imagine a country where the well being of your fellow man is more important than the fattening of individual wallets.
Imagine a country where a person's worth is not measured by their account balance but by their merit as a human being.
Imagine a country where wealthy corporations cannot dictate your lifestyle or interests, and respects your right to your own property.
I can go on all day. We all want the same things. The difference is that some of us believe everyone should at least get a piece of the pie no matter how big, and others care only for pie for themselves-and it better be a damn big piece. There is one party that ensures that piece of pie is as big as possible and that no one dares touch their crumbs.
That party is the Libertarian Party
We don't all want the same things.
Your plundering socialist cohorts are stuck on the idea that there is a fixed "pie", that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
You assume that if one group of people has more wealth than the other, that they must have victimized or cheated the other group, that the excess wealth must truly belong to the poor.
Nothing could be more simplistic or fallacious.
If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. If one group ends up with more wealth than the other, it's because they're more capable or prudent.
The source of all wealth is human creativity, which has no bounds, the net amount of wealth in existence or standard of living can always be increased. There is no fixed pie.
What you really object to as that one group is more capable or prudent than the other. You object to excellence, seeking to punish and destroy it wherever you find it.
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