That's actually a nice post, babe. It tells me more about who you are, what your background is, what made you believe what you believe, etc.
The problem is I don't know if you're still stuck in the past a bit too much? Has the world not evolved? Europe (and the world) is not what it's used to be - it has evolved too. I don't know if words like 'old countries' or 'King's forest' applies anymore. If anything it's the big corporations we need to worry about - aren't they the ones having the most power to affect politics and such? Aren't they the ones dictating our choices without us thinking that they are?
You want to fall in love with the 'pretty girl' - well you can still do that, can't you? You want to 'keep your harvest' - and yet you enjoy the roads, and the security of the police and the courts, and the school system the government provides - I mean you can't have it both ways.
even if I consider Solomon a statist and an "elitist" to the bone.... Solomon did make the case, and his example proves it as well....
"There is nothing new under the sun: The thing which has been is the thing which shall be." For all our self-important swagger and sauce, we are not much different from other times in history.
You exemplify the case. You deny the reality of "The King's Forest" even while the royal consort Prince Phillip heads the WWF and leads the UN-sanctioned push to retire much of planet earth as "wilderness" or "protected areas". There is no pretext imaginable that is not pressed to the cause, from ancient campsites through endangered species all the way to Military Bombing Ranges..... If anything can justify removing humans from the landscape there be no need to question the cause.
The United States started its "King's Forest" in the late nineteenth century by employing the King's forester direct from the British colonial India.... Our BLM was created on the advice of an English-educated intellectual "explorer" named John Wesley Powell who first recommended that the arid West was unsuitable for homesteading, a patent lie. The issue was the economic size of "homesteads". Ranchers in the West need several thousand acres in the worst cases, but they were perfectly able to manage on an appropriate scale, even with only well water.
Sure a lot of intellectual hogwash fills the gutters around our universities with all the know-nothing profs claiming some better vision for the world, but when in the long run it means reducing the populace to serfs, it's a bogus "reality".
If any real expert has a better way to do things, he doesn't need a government agency to manage things. All he needs is a printing press or a radio talk show or TV spot. If he makes any sense, a lot of people will listen.
I've heard the reasoning a thousand times, and it just isn't true. People can always do better with what is in their own hands than any government manager can do. A person on the ground, so to speak, sees things better than a bureaucrat lounging behind a desk in a dark room.
You also suffer from being fundamentally deceived by those "corporations" you're willing to decry, but not willing to scrutinize. Our corporate interests are pretty subtle manipulators, what with all the cash distributed in the elections and congressional lobbyist roosts. Pretty sure it works the same in Kiwiland.
It is those interests that actually promote most conservation types of groups/NGOs, and government regulations. At least the really big ones, the ones with cartel scope and power. They use guvmint bureaucracy to make competition give up. Sometimes they out-right own the agencies, like our FDA with their revolving-door agency/corporate personnel, or the EPA which sits on little mining upstarts and swill the spiked punch at posh summits with the likes of Rio Tinto execs.
I could tell you personally about a billionaire who paid off some BLM folks to file a billion dollar lawsuit against him while he took a company through bankruptcy, shedding hundreds of millions of dollars in legal obligations due his creditors. With that lawsuit hanging over him, he let his company go up for auction to satisfy his creditors, and when no one bid anything, he had his other company make an offer for a pittance. Less than a penny on the dollar. And when the deal was done, and the dust settled, the BLM withdrew its lawsuit and the billionaire walked off with everything. The creditors could hardly pay their lawyers with what they got.
Our big government, and the UN is wholly-owned and operated for such "elites". And that is why any fool who thinks saving the owls is more important than the lumber industry is just silly stupid. The lumber companies own huge forests outright in Minnesota and Georgia and thereabouts. The little lumber companies are the ones who harvest the Western public forests in some manner under government regulation. Every little tree-hugger protesting cutting down a tree in the Redwoods of California is a stooge for Weyherhauser and Georgia Pacific.
All he does is help shut down the competition and support high lumber prices.
The Rockefellers from John D. Rockefeller have been masters of this racket. Government influence is a very lucrative art for the biggest players. That's why they want a world government with no elected representatives, yo.
