Bill Whittle Weighs In on a New Beginning

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  1. Like Bill Whittle. Got about halfway through. Sounds excellent! Only problem so far is that I think he underestimates one problem and over estimates another.

    As our economy continues to decline, we will have less disposable income. If it is already difficult to get people to pay twice (for parallel private structures), hard times will make it even more difficult. Nonetheless, we don’t have a choice.

    We also have no choice except to fight the government tooth and nail. When we start setting up parallel private structures, government regulators will step in order to destroy the competition. Then we will have to fight ferociously to protect those parallel structures. That could easily involve civil disobedience. At the same time, we will have to fight to starve certain parts of the government of money to render it less dangerous.

    What we may experience something the early church experienced, persecution. When Whittle talks of ignoring the government, he strikes me guilty of hoping to play it safe. In a sense, he is ignoring his own advice. When we stand for virtue, those without virtue will hate us because we have what they do not have. Will their government officials benignly neglect us, people they see as dangerous competitors? Whittle’s own experiences suggest otherwise; it’s not a realistic expectation.

    If we fight for virtue, then we must do what virtue requires. That is, first we render unto God what God’s. Then we render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

    Anyway, those are early observations, and so perhaps unfair. On the other hand, I like what I saw, and I will definitely watch the rest tomorrow evening.

  2. [...] H/T quotes and notes and opinions. See Bill Whittle Weighs In on a New Beginning. [...]

    1. Thanks for the reblog, Tom!

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