I have no intention of taking your fast food away from you, Old Guy. ;-) And I am not suffering from geezerism, as you put it. I just happen to believe in freedom, that's all. Freedom is best achieved through local control, not through control by a corporate committee that is located 4,000 miles away in a skyscraper.

There are certain things that very much DO need to be centralized, and the military is one of those. That's why the government runs the military and pays military people their salaries. It has to be done that way in order to function effectively. I have no objection to centralization in areas where it is truly necessary...so, no, you will NOT have to defend yourself against the terrorists with homemade weapons if my ideas take hold.... (grin)

Some other things that probably are best done through centralized control structures: mass telecommunications networks, mass communication systems like the phones, medical infrastructure, major transportation systems, the legal system...

(and I may have missed a few, but those esssentially ARE the things that normally are done through governments in most countries, and I am in favour of that)

Doesn't it just intrigue you a wee bit...the notion that I put in front of you that huge corporations are very much LIKE Communism, and they use the same centralized, impersonal means of controlling people and enforcing conformity, but they do it more cleverly (by sweetening the pill)?

I mean, think about it. Really think about it for awhile.