28th June 2004, 6:47 PM
And that's why America's security is there, to keep that thing from happening.
And honestly, the whole system of government is based on trusting the people in office. Yes, someone betrayed us, but if we stop trusting anyone in the government we are no better than common punks and there's not much of a step from there to all out rebellion and anarchy, which of course will result in a fudal era for a while until eventually some people who hate living like that form a group and go on the basis of honor and law, slowly building up a new government, with codes and honor. Suddenly outsiders will show up with vastly superior technology, terrifying the people, and they will ban it, and cut themselves off from the world, until a few years later, they are forced into open trade via the new technology, then out of nowhere they will team up with Germany and bomb some country formed from colonies and then suddenly get bombed back with much BIGGER bombs, then a few decades later they will run the world with superior entertainment and technology. It's happened before.
And honestly, the whole system of government is based on trusting the people in office. Yes, someone betrayed us, but if we stop trusting anyone in the government we are no better than common punks and there's not much of a step from there to all out rebellion and anarchy, which of course will result in a fudal era for a while until eventually some people who hate living like that form a group and go on the basis of honor and law, slowly building up a new government, with codes and honor. Suddenly outsiders will show up with vastly superior technology, terrifying the people, and they will ban it, and cut themselves off from the world, until a few years later, they are forced into open trade via the new technology, then out of nowhere they will team up with Germany and bomb some country formed from colonies and then suddenly get bombed back with much BIGGER bombs, then a few decades later they will run the world with superior entertainment and technology. It's happened before.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)