Month: December 2006

  • Royalty

    Will Mccarthy, in his amusing book The Collapsium, suggested that people are happier with a king or queen. I think there is something to that. A king gives tangible expression to people’s aspirations. A king is a representative of the country as a whole. A king is somebody who you can never be, but you…

  • Stopping terrorism

    I think there are some general guidelines that the U.S. as a society could follow to avoid terrorism. Unfortunately these will be rather to difficult to do in practice. * Invest heavily in intelligence to find out what people are doing. Spies and double agents seem to be the best sort of intelligence. Unfortunately they…