USA Inc.: An Essay
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A preface lays out the object of essay. We discuss the former rivalry between Communist Russia and Capitalist America, placing it in perspective and contrast. We opine on basic principles of economy. It takes a family to raise a child, a village to raise the standard of living. Wealth and its proper relationship to money, the fact that love of money is by no means the only source of evil, and not the most dangerous is laid out in a mandala of evil. Ethics cannot be divorced from economics, though animal satiation of needs is the prime mover. Chapter 1 lays out groundwork for economic strength in terms of the conflict between leviathan and behemoth, representing two types of systems, one internationalist and the other based upon maximization of local control of government and industry. We mean to lay a background to the problems of poverty, venting adventurous spirit and aggression in the proper direction such as to enhance wealth generation. This a bit subtle perhaps, as the reader may not have the same background perspective as the author. Chapter 2 discusses how offshore and seabed utilization will supply USA Inc with water, raw materials, energy, manufactured goods, military platforms for enhanced security of our shores and heartland. We explain how most jobs will be onshore with a skeleton crew providing services that supplement automation and robotics. Perhaps 200,000 people will sustain a huge platform with dozens of square miles of factory space, and a maintenance crew onboard of perhaps 1,000, plus any Marines, Sailors, merchantmen in transit, and very frequent visits from cargo aircraft. We place this in the context of a doubling and redoubling again of energy production to sustain more automation, terrain transformation, returning eroded soil, missing forests, replenishing aquifers. The Moon will be a good place to develop nanotechnology and for reconnaissance of that most important celestial body, the Earth. It is a good place to capture asteroids for science and industry. Chapter 3 introduces the Distributed Patent. The government acts as a binding core, using its offices to seek out new patent possibilities. It gets a string of necessary companies to split investment costs of development, then sharing the patent. As many companies have trade secrets, the distributed patent will make it harder for patent thieves, industrial sabotage to steal the technologies. As the limited corporation was to the Commercial Revolution, when properly ran, the Distributed Patent could be the next great leap in business innovation. True, less share in the total profits, but countered by smaller investment and less risk, similar to the advantages of Limited Liability companies. The military will be very heavy into this. As the war bands of Indians provided both economic wealth to the tribe and military force, so our military will hunt out new technologies, new seabed resources, new opportunities in space. Chapter 4 discusses the Global Economy problem and its relationship to the decline of US strength and large debt. We briefly discuss Trump's problems and possible attacks by those tied to globalism. Basically, it comes down to: Not Holier Than Thou, but More Prosperous Than Now (the American Dream lives on.) A vision concerning the future of man’s journey in the world ends the essay.
Edward E. Rochon
I write for my health and the health of the world. Often the cure rivals the disease in grief and aches. My writing career started at twelve when I attempted to write a sequel to Huckleberry Finn but never finished it. My writings have included poetry, plays, a novel, non-fiction and writing newsletters for here and there. Recently, I am dabbling into short stories. Apart from newsletters, nothing has been published in print. I bought an audio recording of one of my poems but threw it away in disgust due to an inappropriate reading by the narrator. 'Contra Pantheism...' was my first eBook. About a hundred eBooks have been published since including some books of verse, and my essays collected into five volumes, and one volume of collected poems. A few other types of literature are on my list of published works. My essays deal with fundamental questions of philosophy as well as natural philosophy (science.) On the whole, my works are as far above the writings of Plato and Aristotle as the material power of the United States is over that of Ancient Greece. I once asked myself if I had ever written anything memorable, but couldn't remember exactly what I had written. I started to check my manuscripts but stopped as it seemed the answer to the question was obvious. Gore Vidal mentioned in one of his memoirs that writers tend to forget what they write and are a bad source to ask about their works. Gore knew a lot of writers. I have not and may have been a bit hard on myself. Apart from self-improvement and maybe making a few bucks, my main goal is to bring about a golden age for mankind. Being a man, this sounds appealing. It is pointless to desist and all small measures are worth the effort. Albert Camus thought suicide the only serious philosophical question. He was a fool and died young. Suicide is a waste of time. The most important functional question is: How do I get what I want? The one question that trumps this is the ultimate question of intent: What should I want? As Goethe pointed out: Be careful what you wish for in your youth, you might get it in middle age.
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