Re: What you can do.

Posted by Russell Gonnering on May 15, 2010; 7:39pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/What-you-can-do-tp5046283p5059894.html

Nick-

Why not have both Fox and the BBC? Or more to the point, why not Fox and PBS?

Fox is not like a government in the following ways: It can't tax me, it doesn't redistribute my wealth,  it can't imprison me, it can't execute me or otherwise control me and I can turn them off.  If they do not satisfy their viewers and their shareholders, they go out of business.  Unless they are "too big to fail", which is a whole other discussion.

I have this innate dislike for government censorship, and a very strong distrust of politicians. 

I like the fact that government is limited, and so did the framers of the Constitution.  I can see no historical evidence of a political entity, that when granted absolute power over the flow of information to society for an unlimited period of time, used that power to increase or even merely insure the liberty of its citizens.  Can you?  If ever there is a situation of giving megaphones to people to yell "Fire" in the theater, it would be that. 

To each his own, I guess.  

Russ #3

Russell Gonnering, MD, MMM, FACS, CPHQ

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On May 15, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

Russ, 

The thing I have never understood is why libertarians do not see
corporations for what they are: HUGE governments.  

Is it really the case that you would rather get your news from Fox than
from the BBC.  It seems to me that the question about whether we are to be
subject to government control is water over the dam.  The question is only
WHICH government are we going to be controlled by.  I would prefer to be
controlled by the government with the most responsible governance
structure.  I am no socialist, but I will take the BBC over Fox ANY TIME. 

Gotta Run, 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, 
Clark University ([hidden email])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]

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