Musing of one wondering what would happen if all the cell phone towers in the world went out of commission simultaneously...

One of the earliest postings I put on this blog was some notes about the nature of government.  With an election coming up, it seemed appropriate to recall those.  As I said then, government is an artificial being, invisible and intangible, and its affairs are handled by a group of fallible human beings who are no smarter than the rest of us.  It seems self evident that the collective judgement of perhaps 5000 people operating in and around Washington DC cannot be superior to the collective judgement of perhaps 200 million people operating in the free market.  I hope that people will think about this when they vote.