David Frum: We are more the result of our habits than our ideas. He says we can say every day, I don't like big companies, but if it's cheaper to shop in Walmart, still go there. The idea that you can control and manipulate people in certain directions where you may not have the space as means of direct control is a really troubling question. And once you start opening those doors, he says, "the fight now will be political"
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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.
