06-01 The Nature of the Beast
Complexity places limits on our political institutions. The world is run by bureaucrats. It is wartime and I have organized a group of seven and eight-year-olds to collect small bits of scrap iron. The source of my power was my father having the letter “a” on his license plate and having access to unlimited amounts…
06-02 Organization and Money
The American political system is run by money. They call them PACs or Political Action Committees. During a meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau in 1973, I met with some of the officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and discovered that one person had been designated to follow my media exposure since I started my opposition…
06-03 Technology
Our cell phones connect us to the world. Politicians can’t fudge what is happening. Those pubs around the coast of Ireland in 1967 filled up with locals each evening that would walk over the fields at night to have a chat and a pint or two of black ale. It was their link to the…
06-04 The Future
It is all about demographics. White people are not having babies. Need to import Asians and Hispanics to fund our public health care and pensions. It would be presumptuous to pretend to forecast the future with any accuracy. So much change is inevitable. To begin, we have artificial intelligence, whatever the hell that is. And…