{"id":22367,"date":"2023-02-17T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T20:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=22367"},"modified":"2023-02-17T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T20:59:56","slug":"a-local-focal-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/a-local-focal-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Local Focal Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to the Z-Man\u2019s Friday podcast<\/a> while exercising this morning.\u00a0 Camera Girl informs me that he sounds exactly like our family doctor.\u00a0 Since I only go for a check-up once a decade, I cannot verify that this is true but she is a very observant and intelligent (if annoying) woman.<\/p>\n

Today his topic was about how the dysgenic aspects of our culture were leading to a low IQ population, sort of the Idiocracy theorem.\u00a0 There was a good bit of discussion about how as society devolves local power centers like local politicians (or call them warlords) and institutions that have control over specific functions or technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley) would begin usurping the place of the federal government as it imploded due to rank incompetence.<\/p>\n

It was a very interesting discussion and it pointed to a mechanism for transitioning from the current stalemated political situation to a future where local politics and power structures could evolve to benefit a local concentration of competent and cooperative people.\u00a0 Of course, it still depends on the crumbling of our society as the moving force to allow this untethering and we\u2019re certainly not there yet.\u00a0 Even though the beginnings of collapse can be seen in the increase in the frequency of airplane crashes, train derailments (not to mention naval vessels colliding) and the breakdown in law and order in the cities, still, we\u2019re probably decades away from the official fall of the empire.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve many times stated we won\u2019t have hit bottom until the incidences of cannibalism become too prevalent to make the newspapers (or whatever they call the news purveyors at that point in time).\u00a0 So, this scenario that the Z-Man is postulating is still in the somewhat distant future.\u00a0 But it most definitely makes me think that the idea of a Red State pushing for more autonomy is the correct model for the Right to embrace.\u00a0 And I think that the idea of a Council of Red States is more and more the most effective way for people on the right to affect change.<\/p>\n

I was reading an article by Salena Zito<\/a> about what Ron DeSantis is up to down in Florida.\u00a0 She talks about the fact that both Biden and Trump are bashing DeSantis because he\u2019s the likely contender that both of them would face.\u00a0 But then she spends most of the article going over the things he\u2019s doing in Florida.\u00a0 And even though it\u2019s apparent that she\u2019s supportive of his run for president, what strikes me is that the things he\u2019s doing for his state would be impossible for a president to do without both a veto-proof senate and the house \u00a0under his control.<\/p>\n

So once again, it makes me think that local control of people\u2019s lives becomes more useful than battling for control of the dysfunctional federal government.\u00a0 If DeSantis is actually able to enact Florida Digital Bill of Rights<\/p>\n

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Gov. DeSantis Unveils Florida\u2019s Digital Bill of Rights https:\/\/t.co\/h0lbBOlHo3<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) February 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n