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May 13, 2018 | Leave a Comment
Hamilton wanted the US to be a diverse industrial nation. Freedom was realized in prosperity and individual diversity, not in land ownership. Human self is best realized when people compete against themselves to find what they are best at. If everyone is a farmer then nobody is doing their best. Actually because of competition we are in the situations we are today. We have countries providing weapons to start a coup to destroy and overthrow regimes. We do this because the competition is a threat and the authoritarians running these regimes can’t be controlled. The violence and disadvantage felt by many countries and people in the world is due to competing not as a farmer but as something else. Volatility in present day landscape is all because of competition. It has bred greed and corruption. It has elevated a class that feels they it has the right to play with people’s livelihood.
Jefferson believed that for the nation to survive there had to be a high degree of uniformity. What we call “diversity” was a danger. Government should be weak and minimal. Government has more control than we care to admit but not because they hold any specific views. It is the power of the outside forces that control the politicians that have the voting power. In the end, it is the need for new diversity why we have lobbyists that have specific politicians in their corner. These groups have identified that the government is weak and can be bought if enticed properly. We still see diversity as a danger and this is precisely why laws on guns and drugs can’t get passed. It is why we can’t have universal healthcare because we see it as socialist and god forbid we try new ideas which in and of themselves are diverse. Jefferson asks where is the community if everyone is competing against one another? There is a community but the community is just hidden.
Technology is corroding the capacity to be in a nation. Technology undermines mutuality. What’s more important about you? The fact that you are American or your lifestyle choices. People corrodes the capacity to be in a nation. People undermine mutuality. Technology is a tool and we need to stop blaming it for our inefficiencies. We control the technology so in a way we are the ones undermining our mutuality. Let’s be real no one cares you’re American, they care about who you are and what you do. That is what matters. People are interested in people not their citizenship. It devolves into who you are and what you bring to the table. Your associations are more valuable than citizenship in my opinion.
Things that individualize us are often instruments of state surveillance and control (DNA, retina scan, Fingerprints). Is that a plausible conclusion? State surveillance seems a bit cynical. We believe in these measures because we are taught to believe that the uniqueness of it offers us protection of our privacy. The state controls it but so do we. State control of us can happen more beyond the DNA, retina scan and fingerprints. The conclusion that surveillance is done by those means is narrow minded. We can change someone’s quality of life in a matter of strokes that involve zeroes and ones. We can surveil someone through that than pinning them with fingerprints and DNA. Those are cherry toppings but an indefinite use of surveillance.
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