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Section: Your Business
Managing Expectations
By Lewis Goldberg
Whenever the proper role of govern-ment is debated, the phenomenon known as progress is often taken for granted. We naturally assume or expect that the world will get more complex as time goes by - new inventions changing the paradigms by which we live. Transportation, communications, and healthcare are three examples of aspects whereby modern society measures its standing versus barbarism, and if one fixes their gaze immovably upon those sectors, we do seem to be progressing. But there is another way of looking at the world which allows for the view that we as a society are moving away from civilization and closer to barbarism, despite so-called technological advances.
Pro big government-types will immediately react to the idea of limited government with the usual objections: who would build interstate highways? Who would watch over drug manufacturers? How would we have safe meat to eat? What kind of education would be available and who would be excluded? Who would watch over 'big business?' How would we ensure a 'level playing field' in society?
The counters to the above expectations are easy. No one would be dumb enough to build an interstate highway, and if they didn't exist, perhaps people would put more emphasis on home and less on roam. Businesses of all kinds, education included, should be left to police themselves despite what progressive thinkers think. The quest for the almighty dollar drives companies to enact quality programs of which the government couldn't begin to perceive. Unfair to the consumer, you say? Life is that way, and the only level playing field is the cemetery.
We have indeed come to expect a lot of our government, and in the process have reverted to a sort of feudalism. In the feudal era, the aristocrat owned all the land and the produce thereof. The people were allowed to subsist on the land and work it to the profit of the feudal lord. In return, they were given protection from enemies, and the lord's functionaries provided a sort of justice system. The people were, in essence, slaves, though they didn't know any better life. Can any reasonable man tell me where 21st century America under the rule of Washington, DC is different?
©2002 Patriotist. Lewis Goldberg is a monthly contributing columnist to Ozarks Local. His thoughts and views are not necessarily of that of the publisher. Questions? Call 573-694-5701.
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