{"id":23026,"date":"2023-03-31T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=23026"},"modified":"2023-03-31T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:05:13","slug":"how-do-we-get-from-here-to-a-better-place-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/how-do-we-get-from-here-to-a-better-place-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Get From Here to a Better Place? \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I\u2019ve been thinking that it\u2019s time to stop complaining about how bad things are and instead try to figure out what practical steps I can take to change my environment for the better.\u00a0 This is a talking paper that I\u2019m using to organize my thoughts and try to logically analyze the problem and come up with a path forward.\u00a0 A way to get from here to some place better.<\/p>\n

Well, the first step is to change our thinking about our world.\u00a0 Instead of thinking of ourselves and our enemies as Americans we must begin distinguishing our environment from ourselves.\u00a0 The US government and those that support it are the problem and we need to figure out how to minimize its harmful effect on us.<\/p>\n

The question immediately occurs whether the best way to achieve this would be to emigrate from the United States.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fair question.\u00a0 And in order to answer it you will have to do a comparative study of all the countries on Earth that seem to possess the minimum acceptable conditions for a good life.\u00a0 And that criterion should allow someone attempting this analysis a fairly easy way to eliminate the vast majority of potential new homes.\u00a0 For instance, if you rated physical safety as a very important characteristic for your home then places like Yemen or Somalia would be out of the question<\/a> whereas this criterion would increase the desirability of places like Iceland or Singapore.\u00a0 And in fact, just based on safety you could eliminate almost the entire list of third world nations, which is to say the majority of countries on the planet.\u00a0 And likewise, criteria like opportunities for employment, standard of living, levels of taxation, currency stability, availability of quality healthcare, educational opportunities, various freedoms like freedom of religion, speech, the right to bear arms, cultural norms like gay marriage and other particular items of your choice.<\/p>\n

I think it would turn out that the list of places that equal the score of even a degraded version of the United States of America is a pretty short list.\u00a0 But the exercise is well worth performing for the sake of the clarity it will provide on what the true situation is in which we find ourselves.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s likely that the \u201ccalculus\u201d here will be a question of how much material prosperity should be sacrificed for real freedom.<\/p>\n

For example, right now, I\u2019m fairly certain that Hungary far outstrips the United States in actual freedom of speech and religion.\u00a0 Add to this Hungary\u2019s stance in defying the globalist mania for sanctifying homosexuality and suddenly that country becomes extremely attractive to someone who values traditional family values.\u00a0 In fact, in and of itself, this position elevates Hungary to the level of a gold standard for protecting children from the harmful propaganda that has infiltrated almost every corner of western civilization.<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 In one of the later chapters of this study I will specify the parameters and factors I will use to rank countries in relation to the United States and each other.\u00a0 Next on the agenda is producing this ranked list.\u00a0 And further I will also add into the mix various red states in the United States and rank them too.<\/p>\n

This seems to me to be the correct path forward.\u00a0 By performing this analysis, I will satisfy my need to know whether emigrating is a viable and attractive option or not.\u00a0 And that is a question that should be answered earlier rather than later because later on that path may be blocked by government policies that aren\u2019t currently in place.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll try to break this effort down into manageable \u201cbites\u201d in order to show some progress and to keep myself from getting distracted.\u00a0 Hopefully the information and the methodology will be interesting and useful for others who may be thinking the same things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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