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I found this nice thought on the topic of functional society:

“Religion or social rules may seem to some to be a loss of freedom, but like traffic laws, if we all follow set rules (especially those tested over millennia) it leads to a stable society and lets us all have a little freedom to create in more useful ways. For example, if you drive in Rome (so I’ve heard) you have to drive creatively and you cannot think about anything else. In the UK everyone follows the driving rules, so it is possible to drive by habit and use the time thinking of useful things. Society is like that too.”

source: https://thecritic.co.uk/how-algebra-cures-wokeness/

You might enjoy the discussion of math as a bulwark against wokism interesting.

PS: Mr. Blanc, I am all for Federalism, of course. However, the way Americans have moved around and gotten mixed together, the different regions - the South, the NE, Southern Cal, etc - don't each have their common cultures and unique characteristics they used to have anymore. You have division all over each of the regions. Nobody knows how you would divide this place up to let like people, with like like ideas on government, be among their own. As you say, the only thing all-encompassing is the stupidity pushed on everyone by the woke globalists.

Adam Smith, firstly, thank you for the link to another book (the one discussed on unz by iSteve). You are lucky to be living in a region like that. There are many to chose from - our plans are still vague. If they would just leave these regions alone, and we could be assured of that, the decision would be easier.

PS: Alarrmist, thanks for the report. I would like to get back to a society in which people hold to their own standards, and yeah, if the neighbor chides your kid, you don't go suing him, but thank him instead. That takes a high trust environment, but also, I suppose, one with kids all over and Moms at home, as it was in this land not so, so long ago.

Upon reading those Singaporean websites, I got the impression that all of society was about intelligently making and wading thought complicated social rules (in this case social distancing rules). It's fine if you agree with it all. If you stand out, you'll get hammered down harder than you would here, I'd guess.

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En eso tiene razón, Señor Smith.

PS: Good afternoon everyone...

Mr. Alarmist, so I should go to Singapore for the food but I should skip the hookers, blow, and donkey shows?

Mr. Blanc, I would prefer independent polities or maybe federalism. The globalizing bankers and capitalists can go spatchcock a chicken for all I care. It's long past time to water the tree of liberty with the blood of globalizing bankers and capitalists and other tyrants.

Some of us out here in the mountains of Appalachia (and out west) are not yet ready for the great reset, or to build back better. Black Lives do not Matter here. We will not simply wear our chains with pride and pay our victory taxes. Perhaps we are considered less civilized than the nations city folk, but we will not be so easily put in the camps or lead to our slaughter.

Mr. Moderator, look what I found in the library...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/jwarfaaf31u9lrz/Crosby-Alfred-the-Measure-of-Reality-Quantification-Western-Society-1250-1600.pdf

I got a kick out of this graphic from that Enterprize Singapore link you provided...

https://www.enterprisesg.gov.sg/-/media/esg/images/covid-19/safe-distance/for-businesses-safe-distancing_fb_english.png

Who knew singing was allowed in Singapore?

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PS The balance between freedom and order, that’s the big problem of political philosophy. And, unfortunately, the answer is not one-size-fits-all. There are probably as many answers as there are people. And maybe a dozen or so compromises into one of which most people would feel at least moderately comfortable. Independent polities, anyone? Or maybe federalism? Alas, such solutions aren’t acceptable to globalizing bankers and capitalists. Therefore, put on your mask, hang the rainbow flag on your abode, and loudly proclaim your belief that “Black Lives Matter!” Otherwise, it’s the camps for you, citizen.

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I did a year in Singapore back in the ‘90s, and it was a fine city (search images on Singapore fine city, and you’ll get the joke). Seriously, I loved it. Some dictatorships work well for common folks who don’t want to live like criminals or freaks. And the food was outstanding.

I went back there a while back (BC ... Before Coof), and while waiting at a crosswalk for the light to change (yes, they wait), a 30ish guy next to me threw a candy wrapper on the street, so I looked at him and said, “You wouldn’t do that if Lee Kuan Yew was still running things.” So he gives me a sheepish grin and picks it up. Public shaming still works to help keep public order.

It’s not all about government enforcing public order. I remember as a child that if I got seriously out of order in the neighborhood, any of the neighbourhood adults was free to whack me on the bottom and return me to my parents, who would continue the lesson until they were sure I had learned the point.