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People's imaginations tend to be both material and conservative or historical. Thus when they think of money in its strictest sense, they picture bills and coins - and perhaps even gold bullion. They think "The United States of America" is the physical thing they've seen depicted on a map, with the addenda of Alaska and Hawaii, and informed by tales of the Founding Fathers. That both things are primarily abstractions, and in their more important senses verb-y rather than noun-ish distorts their understanding in particularly unfortunate ways.

One More Time

You have something broad and philosophical to say? Run it through Wittgenstein; run it through Nietzsche. if there's anything left, I'll look at it.

What I mean about creativity and economic divergence

This

Very impressive looking Korean plug-in car. Designed in Irvine, California by a few very bright, creative American boys and girls.

And where will the much more numerous industrious, skilled factory workers live who will, with the help of similarly brilliantly designed robots, assemble whatever comes of this concept?

Taking Gandhi from the Babies

Yo! Lefties! Quit fighting a losing battle for gun control. Arm yourselves and start making threatening noises about what you think would be worth pulling the triggers for. Also: get plenty of practice. Some of your opponents actually know how to use the things.