Nobody Knows Why Nobody Gets It

Nobody Knows: Ever since my dad took me to see Thomas Edison’s home when I was a kid in Ft. Meyers, Florida…I got it.

Here was one man, who wanted to “help” the world…and so, he proceeded with one experiment after another, finding out what worked, what didn’t work: what chemical was JUST right to make the filament inside the vacuum burn longer. He got trees and plants from all over the world, and planted them in his wonderful garden, to use in his experiments, and kept meticulous records of all his findings.

Google Earth and you will see all his hard work.

Tom figured out how to amplify the human voice on the telephone…then invented the light bulb. Then he promised to light up a section of New York, so he invented the generators and delivered on that promised.

He went on to give us the phonograph, the science of recorded sound, and then mixed the sound with motion pictures.

Even though Edison got the very best minds to help him out…the concepts were his.

One man. One Individual. Just one.

All it took was…imagination, and the freedom from government to pursue his dreams.

That’s a concept known as individualism, and it is now being put to the graveyard as fast as a CEO, Union Thug, and Congressmen can do it.

In the Obama administration---it’s a dirty word.

Look around you. Everything you depend on most each day (besides food and water of course) started with that one guy. Without the laying of electrical lines, no lights, no computer…no TV…no movies…no I-Pods…no electric frig…not to mention, we will never know just how much Edison helped out his neighbor, who lived less than a minute away, Henry Ford.

So, why do we not have a “Thomas Edison Day?”

Yeah, I don’t get it, but it’s starting to become clearer. It’s called “collectivism.”

And the truth is: “collectivism” is not very good soil for the individual to create in.

The evidence is mounting that our global leaders now believe that world’s individuals and their hopes of becoming rich off their own ideas…well, they just need to give up all those individual dreams in order for the rest to survive. Call it Marxism, Communism, or the New Third Way---it’s all the same old garbage.

Years ago, the great American historian Henry Adams, who was living in the hour of that bulldog of a politician, Teddy Roosevelt, had the “idea” that if one could find a “scientific method” guideline to history, leaders would have a blueprint to go by…finding the “perfect” government. Inventions and progress would flourish.

Poor Henry Adams---born before Bill Gates.

In 1962, a man named Dean Babst used a computer, put in historical data, and figured out that democracies did not go to war with each other, paving the way for the “President George W. Bush will start building democracies all over the world, and jumpstart the peace” philosophy.

It’s officially called by Oxford: The Democratic Peace Theory.

By all accounts, it’s not working too well. Many of the ‘Democracies and Republics’ all over the world are anything but free, including ours, and war looms around every Islamic cell-phone dream of heaven.

You have to be careful when a politician says the word “democracy,” because in a real democracy, (even with elections) you end up with mob rule, which is a bad thing, and which leads almost inevitably to a dictatorship. But, they know this. The more "democracies," the more chaos.

Never waste a good "chaos."

That’s why the founders invented a “republic.” It was a grand idea, and it worked. The American experiment, up until the recent “globalization” and monopolies of vast empirical international banks and companies, pretty much grew in its own vacuum.

While the rest of the world stayed with “collectivism” of communism and Islamic Tyrannical rules, we gave freedoms to the individual. Each man was responsible for his own welfare…and that’s why only America surpassed the rest of the world.

And now, America is leading not only its citizens, but joining the rest of the world in “collectivism” where the oligarchy of global CEO’s, Presidents, and dictators will rule the rest, in the name of…democracy.

All patents will be owned by a few companies. No individual will get much in the way of reward for inventing.

Imagine a future Thomas Edison if you will… maybe he (or she) has an idea to make cold fusion, at a fraction of a penny…but he is working for Jeffery Immelt, so he will not benefit off that patent if he gets it. Only GE will make the trillions if his idea is used, but more than likely, it will be filed and not used because of the bottom line.

Then the “inventor” is told that if he wants to keep his job, he has to move to China, and invent a light bulb filled with even more mercury.

That’s a big loss for Google Earth.

In “collectivism” the individual invents for the big boss. He reaps; you get…recognition…if you’re lucky.

So, do you think that saving the planet is going to come in a “collective” computer program, run by elite snobs at Harvard? Or will solitary men, left alone to create and reap the profits off their creations, be the ones to save us?

Where’s the light switch?