Throughout human history, there have always been "americans."  People who believed that freedom, independence, and hard work, leads to prosperity and happiness.

In Prehistoric times, the land was limitless, and when someone disagreed with their community or were persecuted, they simply left to start their own community.  Real Americans did exactly that.  They started their own country, and proved their philosophy, by becoming more prosperous in money, strength, and quality of life, than any other country in the world.  Over just a few decades, people from other countries, continued to want what Americans had created, so they immigrated to American and abandoned their own countries.  Eventually, as life became easier though hard work, freedom, and independence, people started seeing those ideas as having little value, because they were accustomed to them, so they tried what they thought were new ideas.  The old concepts of Freedom, independence, and hard work, were replaced with the terms, excentricity, selfishness, and greed.  Once the new ideas started, they didn't stop, because the new ideas, regardless of their destructive visions, were exciting and new.  Dependence, control, and laziness were rewarded, and the Americans ceased being "american."  In the new, converted country, the few americans that managed to disagree with "The consensus", and survive the conversion, escaped, and started their own community . . . except, there isn't anywhere to escape to anymore . . . There is no more "New World."

After all, the current, un-American philosophy is that hard work, freedom, and independence aren't good for anyone, because they are "greedy," "selfish" concepts.

Work hard, create, build, be free, be independent, live happy, prosperous, and I guess . . . run, if you can.  These are American values, but what happens when you can't run any longer?

It seems to me, that socialism is as much a part of human nature as violence is, and certainly violence isn't un-American.  Socialism, like anger, violence, happiness, or kindness, aren't bad things.  They are only bad when they are applied to things that they shouldn't be applied to.  Anger when applied to someone who is trying to be kind, is bad, just as happiness is bad when applied to the situation of someone trying to kill you, or just as socialism is bad when it's applied to federal government philosophy.  Socialism frequently works well in a family setting, just as individualism works well for children emerging from that setting, but sometimes it doesn't work.

Many people in Scandinavia seem to feel that their mixed, Socialist and Capitalist countries are great, as well as many people in the mixed, Capitalist and Socialist country of the United States.  What is it to be American? . . . Socialist?

North America was based on american values, not socialist ones.  However, the American trend seems to be slowly continuing down the road of Socialism, which so many others have fallen victim to throughout history, and for which America has been no exception.  It seems, even countries founded on un-socialist concepts, still, eventually fall to Socialism, to some extent.  Is it possible to change that?  Would you want to change that if it were up to you?

Perhaps, part of the human condition is that when "americans" lead a new, prosperous path, socialists must follow to destroy it, or what incentive would the americans have for continued expansion?  How would the human race grow?  Some believe that without destruction, there can be no creation.  To some extent, that must be true.  Much of the small, North American Natives' culture was destroyed to have the three hundred million Americans alive today, but much of it had to be preserved as well, since the USA certainly wouldn't exist in its current form if there weren't any Native Americans during colonization.

The final question remains.  Where can americans go now?  North America has already been settled and taken over by slow Socialist degradation, by foreign Socialists, as well as homegrown Socialists.  Where is the new America, where Americans and "americans" can find solace in their temporary escape?  Perhaps, now is the time for Americans to band together and consider the John Galt solution.  Perhaps that chance was long ago, and now it is gone.  Where is the refuge to run to?  Will all Americans be killed off, with all the other un-americans who will kill or enslave themselves with their own Socialist-Communist politics, feelings, and policy?  No, because new americans will be born from Socialist destruction.

America will probably collapse like all the other great civilizations of history, it's just a matter of when.  Buy your guns and boats now, while you still can.

Ministry of Transportation describes more accurately the place I decided to go to yesterday, so I could follow "the law."  For me, the title conjures up an image of priests engaging in discussion, using platitudes to describe transportation policy.  If this image were a reality, I would guess it to be significantly more effective than the reality in existence now.

Lucia and I had to go to the National Bank to pay for the fee to get a license plate for my motorcycle.  Then we went to the Ministry of Transportation, where we waited in line to talk to a guy named Mario Condori.  We showed the fee we paid at the bank, and Mario Condori promptly charged us again.  Then we waited in another line for the license plate application.  When we got there, he said we didn't have to pay twice and that we should get a refund from Mario Condori, the guy we paid, in the other booth, about 8 feet away.  So we waited in line again to talk to Mario Condori, and asked for a refund.  Mario Condori said no.  We went back to the license plate guy, who said we should talk to a woman in another section.  We did, and she said to go back to Mario Condori, and ask him for a refund.  We waited in line again and told Mario Condori to give us a refund; he still said no.  We went back to the woman, and she said she would come with us this time.  She came with us, we all waited in line again.  Finally, Mario Condori agreed, but only after he was done with his shift, an hour and a half later, at 2:45pm, 15 minutes before closing.  We waited, and were able to catch him at 2:30pm before he escaped with my money.  He did refund us, 35 soles, all in one sole coins.

Mario Condori should be fired, but then again, who would they hire to replace him?