Perhaps we could organize a contest of sorts: the Annual Porky/Oinky Awards (= porkbarrel)?
(1) Compile regional (state by state or county by county) lists of the most irrational, useless and expensive projects (being sure to highlight whatever makes each project outrageous)
(2) Convert the lists into short videos, T-shirts, songs or whatever.
(3) Vote on the best-executed, most moving projects (in each of several categories) with the potential to go viral.
**(4) Hold an awards ceremony with suitable prizes
A darwin award for gooberment?
seems there was a senator that did that back in the day...porkmire? cocksmear...?...forget his name...
the problem would be IMHO...that the bar would be SO LOW...and there would be SO many awards...kinda like hyperinflation?
Concentrated firepower on selected high-value targets rather than a scattergun approach could solve the problem of too many "awards"
messy
best to develop a high technolgy which would empower individuals in a widely distributed, highly redundant, massively parallel fashion
such as 3D printing, inexpensive CNC tools and material, the internet and the blockchain.
Agree, but it doesn't have to be an either-or situation. Some people are actively working to destroy western society, poking multiple holes in our civilizational dikes (dykes?). One of our many jobs is to drag the malefactors away from our dikes (and keep the dykes company?)
could be..
but I have a feeling not.
I suspect that western society is undergoing a metamorphisis
let those people who are actively working to destroy the hull of the cicada...do so
a new form of lifestyle, a new type of society has no need of it.
widely distributed, massively parallel and hugely redundant...no single point of failure...tremendous wealth..