I’m somewhere in Arizona now, stopped to get some rest. I went down looking for the Gila River, but when I stopped to talk to two Pima Indians about where it was, they said the white man blocked it off years ago.
How did we get here? How do we get out? One of the most profound messages out of NN08 was from the keynote by Lawrence Lessig. One idea in the talk was the difference between oil/coal energy to that of solar/wind. With one, the more money put into developing, the higher overall costs; while the latter, the more funds towards developing, the diminishing costs. Why the hell should I care if T. Bone Pickens is buying up land and building windmills? I just drove across Texas. I saw it. I saw the staging areas for the segments of the tower, and I saw the trucks up and down the roads, pulling the single blades. Why the hell doesn’t my government harness my natural resources and make it so electricity is free?
We'll see.
One part of Lessig's keynote correctly indentifies Congress and its dependency on corporate funding as the "first problem." But somehow, as yet, to recognize that nothing short of the Article V Convention will actually change Congress.
I don't know why more people who could actully make a difference don't start doing it. I saw the Libertarian presidential candidate before I left, he used to be in Congress, and we talked about the convention clause. At one point he said, "So it's your way or the highway." And I replied, "It's not my way, it's the Constitution's way."