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Campfire behind our home, near the cornfield… Essay first published on Medium . Chaos and random events are occurring all the time at various levels, and is required for order to reorder effectively into another, unavoidable stage. Conservatives want to prevent all chaos and randomness, and therefore the next stage of unavoidable change, similar to a region that continually suppresses forest fires to prevent damage to the human made structures, and the injury or death of its residents. . The Analogy Expression. Yet after awhile, practicing suppression becomes dangerous, and all suppression efforts are overwhelmed, causing massive damage and calamitous results much worse than if suppression would not have been the main part of the plan. The inelasticity of the conservative, reptile-brain function, in either party depending on the issue, makes likely an implosion or explosion once suppression fails. . Unfortunately, those are the results residents demand , through their lack of desire f...

Crisis Blizzard  Essay first published on Medium . Consider first the French Revolution. Today, many American conservatives demonize it, and denigrate the Age of Enlightenment because of the mob mentality excesses in its last few years , and final grisly outcome as well as the status-quo upsetting ideas the philosophes produced. In the late 18th century, Sir Edmund Burke feared their radical ideas, also propagated by Thomas Paine, could spread across the channel, but thought incrementalism was the best way for Britain to avoid such tumult, and that the nation’s generational continuity held the answer to its future thriving.  However, it was his almost servile linkage to this institutional progression , derived at that time from an aristocratic “DNA” that we are concerned with here. He figured minor tweaks indicated by a proper structure of the forefathers’ inheritance or knowledge-base is basically all that is ever needed. Inertia : the property of matter by which it reta...

This is a shortened version (with minor editing) of a similar chapter in my book, Our Democracy Requires An Update . T he private and social property paradox contributes to our schizophrenic approach to solving societal problems in the United States. Social property includes all the elements of life you have ultimate control over, or should have , as well as those provided by the government or society that do not have a direct relationship to private financial elements. Public schools, roads, freedom of speech, and bodily autonomy are examples of social property. Health insurance is what I call a crossover property in the United States, since economic elites will not allow the consensus on its social property status to be instituted. Our extremely unequal balance of both property types over time, and up until now in various ways, as to who has it and how much they have, helps explain our paradoxical situation. Race, and gender are the defining and divining factors in our detrimental d...