With the close of 2023, a year that will go down in infamy, to say the least for its continued spiraling into the abyss of national dysfunction. As Elizabeth Barrett Browning once opined, “Let me count the ways.”
At home we have an economy that is in shambles fueled by rampant inflation; national security at our southern border is almost non-existent, with the resulting influx of an estimated at 2.5 million illegal immigrants for the year, adding an additional economic drain to an already struggling economy; rising crime, especially in inner cities, from a populus who is frustrated by an intuitive knowledge that the governmental and media consortium are, to put it as gently as possible, “full of it”; and all of the above is facilitated by a crime family that has infested all levels of government, most notably the DOJ; the dimming of the shining light on the hill is not only noticeable but undeniable by even the least informed of our society; and finally, our weakened military that has the China/Russia consortium, unafraid of WWIII.
“The old politics of right versus left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers.” Victor Davis Hanson
Which brings me to possibly the most egregious, dangerous, and quite frankly amoral development brewing on the already cluttered horizon…Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Britannica .com defines artificial intelligence as the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
On April 29, 1962, President John F. Kennedy remarked at a dinner honoring the Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
It seems to me that there is a point where intellect and common sense create genius…i.e., Thomas Jefferson. After that point, the kind of intellect left is void of common sense and this convoluted thinking makes Frankenstein seem tame.
In my humble opinion, AI is a subtle substitute, for eugenics in its ugliest forms. In a nutshell, the proponents of AI, such a Yuval Noah Harari an Israeli academic and Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, suggest that AI can effectively replace “the useless people” thereby finding no need for 6.5 to 7 billion people of the approximate 9 billion on earth. Obviously neither of these intellectuals have ever tried to rope a steer. Nevertheless, suggesting that kind of genocide so blithely borders on insanity.
The solution to this conundrum is not the federal government and more legislation. As P.J. O’Rourke noted “Giving money and power to federal government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
So, where will the sane and measured leadership come from if not the federal government? Our astute and rational founding fathers, fortified by commonsense, have provided a path for it in Article V…from the states. As noted by the citizens in the Convention of States grassroots movement, the states created the federal government out of necessity, but not without reservations.
Therefore, a Convention of the States is the only viable, and I mean only, viable and rational solution to the out-of-control federal government: proposing such commonsense solutions as limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, and placing term limits on federal officials. Furthermore, Article V excludes federal control of the proceedings.
If this sounds like a sane and commonsense solution, please learn more at conventionofstates.com, and to participate in the saving of the Republic.
