Too Much Stuff

So, oddly I must begin with two important events, sort of colliding
as it were, in mid air ????

One of  those events are the passing of John Mc Cain.  He will be remembered
I am sure in many ways.  But I believe also as a heroic figure, as well
as some one who gave this country valuable service in our Senate, in
the U.S.

The other event of course would be the 50th anniversary of the Chicago
Democratic convention.

I wish to discuss neither, but focus more on two issues.

#1 Problems --- especially kinds of problems

for right now I will speak about two kinds of
problems.  a)  kind of problem is generally
solvable either directly or after some
reasonable length of time.  These
kind of problems also breakdown into
two types.  One is, really fixed, and the
other is we actually have  created a worse
problem.  b) is a problem which we would like
to see solved, and we work to solve it, but we
don't always get good results from this.

There are of course many other types of problems,
but these represent a number of those problems
which we consider a lot of the time.

Beyond that there are also problems which we are
not currently aware.  These of course are quite difficult
if not impossible to to anything about.

But what I'd really like to discuss, which follows on from
the last post is:  government, or what you might call it.

Now what I am proposing is to describe government in
the following way:  an organization or non-organization
focused primarily on solving those problems which no
one else wishes to deal with.    A garbage dump for
problems, and so in this way Ronald Reagan was
correct in referring to it as " the problem ",,,, viewing
a collection of problems as one single problem.  But
properly or improperly as you may view it,  also it
" represents ", or at least " stands for " the solution,
or process of solution.

Now, viewed in this way " the machinery ", of government
would be those devices or device which allows for the
solution of problems, knowing in fact that the " government "
becomes the repository for these problems.

Viewed in this way it seems quite clear in what ways
excessive national dis-harmony, divisions, or worse, 
could result in the discontinued functionality of that
machinery ( of government ) .

And so I hope to continue with these ideas later.