Re: space travel or war

In a high-technology age with nuclear weapons and worse, what would
you have the state do to protect its people from possible attack?

Everyone accepted that the United States had to give up some liberties
in order to not only survive, but to prosper in this sort of
environment.

To its credit the governmenet of the United States for the most part
avoided ideological excesses and advanced the cause of freedom and
liberty in the least restrictive environment possible for its
people. To its discredit it has failed to adopt a fair and balanced
process approach to common mode failures or install a process to
promote social innovation and evolve fundamental social advance.
This was not for lack of trying or the courage of those in charge
however, this was due primarily to the difficulty of the problem.

Your rant on the other hand is not even motivated by ideology, but
rather, personal mental imbalance - a hairs breadth removed from
paranoid schizophrenia.

That is, you promote political views neatly explaining your abject
lack of achievement in life by putting the blame on the the powers
that be and removing them from you. Your personal explanations of
your failure or success is not the proper function of political
science however.

The failure of humanity generally is however. While these two
processes may be connected in some way, the material you provided is
clearly the result of a deranged mind seeking explanations for his
personal failures, and seeking comfort from others seeking similar
explanations for themeselves rather than doing the hard work of
building a wonderful life for yourself with whatever opportunities
life gives you.

What would you have the government do? realistically? Spouting
some unattainable ideal of liberty doesn't cut it. Whining about
supposed privileges isn't a solution - its a sop to your emotional
state - nothing more.

Wake up and smell the coffee guy.

My commentary is directed at something else. I accept the situation
post-war America found itself in. I merely point out that management
of the Grand Arena - as Kennan called it - provided short term gains
and long term liabilities. Those gains have been paid out, and the
liabilities are coming due. What should we do now?

I do admt I spoke to some extent what America might have done, merely
to point out where we failed, and point out what we might do today to
set things aright. I do not question the loyalty or veracity of those
it fell to to do the difficult job of charting our course through the
cold war.

Even so, had we maintained our manufacturing and farming base, and
addressed the wage disparity as technology advanced and permitted
that, rather than using wage disparity among those economic sectors to
structure the Grand Arena in the first place,

had we advanced into the interplanetary frontier and used our advanced
technology to gain special access to vast new regions of raw
materials, energy, and information -

had we used this unique resource to maintain peace and prosperity in
the nuclear age,

had we accepted and promoted the religious insights of our explorers
to organize the world politics and religion for a post-nuclear space
age, rather than sweep it under the rug and try to forget it -

we would be in a far better position today as a nation, and as a
world.

We didn't do these visionary things in part BECAUSE they were
visionary - expected the men and women of the 20th century to freely
embrace 21st century ideals and solutions does not require they be
evil or motivated by bad intent - they didn't do these things because
they were hard to see and understand in the context of the 20th
century.

Yet today, we can see that the war on terror is easily and decisively
won - we first acknowledge as a nation that 4% of the world's
population cannot continually consume 30% or more of the world's
resources and commit ourselves to using our position to increasing the
availability of resources, and using our national capabilities to
maintain an environment of peace prosperity and growth for all. .

We also acknowledge that there are world's beyond our world, and
commit ourselves to developing the resources off-world and under our
oceans to meet our needs and the needs of everyone, and in this way,
maintain and increase our living standard while rapidly raising all
living standards of all using these new resources.

Finally, we point out that God made all of us, and the universe -
including the universe beyond Earth - and commit ourselves to honor
all things God made - by creating an environment that is least
restrictive to all men and women, and least destructive to the natural
environment wherever it is found, and provides the greatest
opportunity for all without denying anyone life liberty or the pursuit
of happiness.

Then we go about doing the practical things needed to make good on
these visionary statements.

1) devleop low-cost terrestrial solar power to generate 3.34 billion
tons of hyrogen from 30 billion tons of water each year to replace the
28.3 billion barrels of oil, 5.5 billion tons of coal, and 1.1 billion
tons of natural gas we burn each year, avoiding the generation of 40
billion tons of carbon. We become an exporter of hydrogen fuels

2) develop a global wireless internet to provide 50 billion wireless
broadband channels throughout the world available at pricing all can
afford. We become an exporter of information services

3) develop high-end low-cost tele-robotic systems using these two
assets and build manufacturing centers in the United States, employing
low-wage labor throughout the world telerobotically. We become an
exporter of jobs, while simultaneously exporting the products those
jobs make.

4) develop low-cost very large reusable launch vehicles and launch a
network of solar power satellites that use free electron lasers to
beam energy to terrestrial solar panels (1) to expand their utility
and increase their value - increasing the amount of energy available
to humanity - rapidly increasing income levels (and exports from the
US based manufacturing - employing foreign labor telerobotically)

5) develop pilotless, personal VTOL ballistic aircraft using
propulsive skin technology energized by space lasers - these aircraft
range in size from letter carriers to winnebagos. They seamlessly and
easily transport products and people ballistically from point A to
point B at very low cost, with zero pollution anywhere on the Earth

6) develop low-cost manufactured housing powered from space,
communicating with space based assets,providing work at US factories
telerobotically, and receiving food and products and information
generated in America.

7) use advanced solar laser space propulsion to capture rich asteroids
and bring them to Earth orbit. Use telerobotic systems to build solar
powered telerobotic mines farms and factories to provide food, fiber,
clothes, housing, at very high standards for all the Earth.

This is how we successfully manage the post-nuclear age for growth and
general prosperity.


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