There's a cute .pps circulating, called "Noah today," with spectacular photos of gathering storms. Actually, this presentation represents thinking that originated with the Heritage Foundation, intended to undermine people's support for government regulations.

Leonard Salle (may G-d rest his soul), politely reprimanded me for circulating a previous version that was about all the things we used to do "back in the day" that didn't need regulation or safety protections.

If you read behind the lines, these messages undermine unions, environmental laws, the Americans for Disabilities Act, civil rights, public interest law, disenfranchised communities, and many other forms of socially-agreed-upon consensus -- shared values we need for regulations of all kinds.

In some versions, it even undermines the Bureau of Weights and Measures, that provides verification of honest gallons of gas, ounces, or meat, etc.

As well-intentioned as it may be to distribute this as humor, it's not at all in keeping with the work of True Cost Pricing, which will require all kinds of consensus and regulation. Rather, this piece sabotages shared consensus and majority rule of any kind, dating back to Rousseau, the Polis, and beyond.

In this post-Reagan-Bush era, when Presidential debates ignore the most important issues and return to old, disproven, rote discussions of "Trickle Down" Reaganomics, we need to be ever-vigilant lest we succumb to the kinds of naive thinking that got us into the mess we're trying to clean up.

Paul