Reddit mentions of The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again

I read an article in my school paper about a year ago, but heres the book the article was talking about. Its actually like 86% from what this says. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1568586051/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/180-9785174-4663364

Yeah the end destination of the data in this application is an AWS cloud server, but why couldnt it be your local post office instead? The truck dumps all with addresses in that particular local meshnet (and all those which need transferred to trucks headed other directions), picks up outgoing messages according to its next destination, and keeps on truckin.

The US Postal Service is hurting pretty bad right now. A retrofit of their existing fleet and stations would enable them to carry the packets and parcels of the 21st century - a new product which might sustain an institution once vital to the US democratic system (citation)

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I don't want to be rude, but quite frankly - if I were going to base my opinion on all Libertarians by a few anecdotal experiences like you're doing here - I would have to conclude that most of you are dangerously naive, extremely ignorant in American history believing that your strict adherence to the Constitution is some kind of strength (it is not) and that the majority of you are indeed crypto-racists and anti-Semites (I say this because so many Ron Paul supporters I come across all seemingly have a neurotic fixation with Jews, Israel and our monetary system, which you are also dangerously ignorant on ).


So if you don't want me to assume that about you, I would kindly ask that you not base all your opinions on Liberals on your one friend who - well meaning as she might be - does not represent an authoritative voice on our wide-ranging beliefs and how they fit into the broader question of Constitutional muster.


In a nutshell, you have been duped by Ron Paul and his cohorts of Libertarian propaganda masters who have weaved a mythical tapestry of Early America that simply never existed.


The Early Republic was NOT this laissez-faire paradise that Ron Paul et al. would have you believe.


The Founding Fathers were STATISTS through-and-through. I don't give a damn about what you want to believe. I'm telling you cold. hard. facts. You want to believe in the Easter Bunny? Go ahead. I don't care.


But you cannot choose to believe or not believe in facts; they do not require your belief, they are facts that need to be accepted.

Much of the first half of the 19th century, the United States' economy was run under the American System. Which involved active intervention in our economy.

Thomas Jefferson (among others) was a supporter of printing and postal subsidies in order to foster an independent press

John Adams signed the Healthcare law of 1798 mandating that privately employed sailors HAD to buy health insurance/

And early on corporations were only chartered so long as they provided a public interest such as the building of roads or canals.

And this is all just the tip of the iceberg.


The entire narrative that the Early Republic was this mythical land overflowing with milk and honey with the population unburdened by state intervention is simply the same well-worn propaganda that has been thrown around since 19th century in order to lure cheap immigrant labor from overseas.


For most Liberals the Constitution is indispensable - particularly the Bill of Rights - which is the bed rock of modern Liberal values. Though it may not seem this way to the political extremists known as Conservatives and Libertarians, but unfortunately when you only see things in black and white, nuance and shades of gray appear alien and threatening. I'll leave it at that since this comment is much longer than I originally intended.