"I think there's so many people who lost because we are separated from nature," he says. "Our worst habits will often be the ones that damn us." He adds, 'We can't save ourselves from our own habits unless we agree to individually change' CNN asked him about his time in politics and some of the things he was surprised by when running for office.
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Carl von Clausewitz described war as politics by other means. In many ways the reverse could be said, with the modern state in the West seemingly arrayed against its own citizens in a constant battle of misdirection and interference in their lives. Tom Kawczynski, author of ‘Surviving the Fall of America’ and former town manager of Jackman, Maine, has actually run for political office in an attempt to address some of these problems. Tonight, he gives us an insider glimpse into how the system actually works, what we can expect going forward, and some potential solutions to what he sees an an almost inevitable decline of a once great society.
