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Chaos Can Be Productive

Given back the right to think for ourselves, we revert to conscientious beings

Kevin Meyer
Wed, 03/05/2014 - 17:00
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Rules are funny things. We like some of them because they make us feel protected, aligned, and perhaps operating on a fair playing field. We dislike them because they can protect us to the point of being smothering, align us to the point of being constraining, and fair to the point of being unfair. Regardless of perspective, there are an increasing number of them. More than 3,000 new laws and regulations each year, for starters.

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I won’t get into the political side of the increasing number of rules, but what are we doing to ourselves as a society? Or individually as humans?

Years ago I visited Italy and was surprised at the traffic.

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Submitted by MJK on Thu, 03/06/2014 - 13:40

Interesting Column

I read recently the federal code of laws is 100,000 and something pages long and growing.

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