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Portia Rollings; Steve Wunsch
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About Nature's God America was founded on freedom, supposedly. So
how come government intrudes into every aspect of our lives now?
How come tyranny is back? Socialism, the modern term for tyranny,
was not yet in use in 1776. But the Founders would have had no
difficulty recognizing that the socialist redistribution at the
core of American policy today is incompatible with the unalienable
right to the pursuit of happiness that they thought they put in our
Declaration of Independence and protected in perpetuity with our
Constitution. What happened? Nature's God describes how Western
governments all became functionally socialist, and how the United
States, ironically the most deliberately free country ever, is
leading the march to this new tyranny. The origins of
redistributive socialism are discovered to be ancient and rooted in
the primitive instincts of war. But their modern manifestation
began with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Civil
War, which created the paradigm of socialist intervention that
threatens us today. Surprisingly, it was "the great emancipator"
that set us on this trajectory, one that is now less about freedom
and more about global conquest, as the War on Terror becomes the
chief danger to our economic and physical security. Domestically,
redistribution is creating economic decline and unemployment.
Abroad, it is creating enemies that want to blow us up.
"Redistributionism" has become the functional equivalent of a state
religion in spite of the First Amendment, and is now the central
moral value underlying an interconnected lattice of government
solutions to all problems, foreign and domestic. Occupy Wall
Street's concerns over inequality and the 99% are consistent with
the concerns of the SEC and the level playing field the
Commission's National Market System was supposed to create.
Instead, it produced high frequency trading and dysfunctions like
the Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, the Facebook IPO and the Knightmare
of August 1, 2012. These are the latest flashpoints on the path of
decline that redistribution is taking us down. And they are signs
that, for all the freedom we Americans still espouse, our legacy is
in danger of bearing more resemblance to the horrific socialist
tyrannies of the twentieth century, namely Adolf Hitler's Nazi
Germany and Soviet Communism. If we are able to avoid this fate, it
may be because modern network science will help us rediscover what
our Founders were talking about. Network effect theory can show us
where we went wrong when, for example, we deliberately destroyed
under antitrust the most fundamental and valuable elements of our
infrastructure, such as the stock exchanges that create new
companies, jobs and wealth. The new science of networks can give
meaning again to the freedom our Founders had in mind, and may
point the way back to an America living under "The Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God." In Nature's God, the reader will discover
that there is a practical way back to freedom. It is a way that is
very different from what all the politicians talk about. But it is
a way that will actually work.
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