total rant alert
we may transition from a totalitarian production hating nation to a totalitarian production loving nation. at least that's a move in the right direction
my understanding has been that the chinese strategy has been to acquire technology (means) and produce products more efficiently in a highly controlled system. this removes the r&d cost from production. and this is why they are a manufacturing powerhouse. but ideas for products still originate elsewhere (like the US). why? well imho, it's cuz of our history of freedom. the free market and free people create a wealth of ideas, which then improves competition in the marketplace of ideas - which makes human life more better. but it requires freedom, and freedom isn't free. so, as this situation persists we will continue to see the arbitrage of ideas from the (somewhat) free market to the (mostly) captured market and we'll see calcification, stagnation, and oppression
so, what to do? guard r&d. produce!
oh, and i been thinking that collectivism is good for one thing - group violence. and it's already pervasive and effective in the armed forces. kinda want a one for all attitude there - probably shouldn't change that. that's why those institutions should retain their main mandate: to defend the constitution (a document which was intended to shine freedom through parchment) at minimal cost. to fund the military i recommend a tax on matter at market value (ala geo-libertarianism) which would help insure efficient use of resources. but, imo, we need to cut everything outside of Nozic's night watchman state
oh, and afghanistan is prolly really about fighting china. and china is prolly using tibet as a buffer against india - which is why it's a sore topic. i have some info to suggest that those problems in northern mexico & arizona are the russian/chinese response. and that's why the cia is in the drug business, and that it's illegal. if it's illegal, the gov can easily confiscate any drugs that are not sanctioned by the gov. if they didn't sell them, or make them illegal it would make the gov less strategically viable. that is - if it's not just because they're rotten to the core
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