The Root Of All Scams Options Rating

[Jon Awbrey]

Its faces are as legion as its names, but its disguises all spring from one and the same root, the singular notion that you can get something for nothing.

The very idea that you can get knowledge without the work of inquiry, that you can get good at inquiry without the work of accumulating experience, that you can govern a complex society on a shoestring.

Of course, only real losers fall for that, don't they?

Jon Awbrey

[Jon Awbrey]

What people fail to understand is that “government” is just a name for whatever portion of the population has control over the whole population's lives. In a large and complex society you are going to have a proportionately large and complex government, whether it answers to the People or whether it answers solely to its own corporate interest. People are being misled to think that they have a choice between big government and small government, but they don't. The choice is only — “Big And Representative Government” (BARG) or “Big And Unrepresentative Government” (BAUG).

The difference that makes a difference is between the res publica that genuinely responds to the governed and the private interest that exploits the mystique of the invisible hand to absolve itself of responsibility.

Jon Awbrey