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Several years ago I, Peacock, made a conscious decision not to keep up with technology.  It just seemed that I had all of the technology I would ever need at hand, so what was the point?  Fortunately, my wife and children would not permit this to happen, so here I sit reading from a Kindle, and just the other day received a Droid smart phone for my birthday.

It is a wonderful little device that amazes.  The apps for the device run from the ridiculous to the sublime, from things that are just plan fun to things that are really useful.  I can go into a store and scan a product barcode and it will tell me where I might find it cheaper.  I can spin the globe and stop it at a point that I want to zoom into from outer space.  I can have the device route me across country, or tell me where the nearest McDonald’s is from where I am.  I can identify heavenly objects, surf the web, listen to radio and watch video clips, get the latest news, send and receive e-mails and text messages.  Hell, I can even use it as a level.  I literally have instant access to all of the knowledge of the world, from anywhere in the world.  (It even can make a phone call, although I still prefer my old little cell phone for that task).

World On A String

I wake up in the morning and it tells me exactly where I am, what the headline news is, what the weather will be, what the tides will be, what packages will be delivered today, and just about anything else I want to know.  It also knows where it is, and it even knows its posture and orientation.

I got thinking about this.  How did this device, and all of the marvelous technology that we enjoy today, come into being?  Although some think it came from visiting aliens from space, we do know that it did come from space, and depends upon space for its magic.

This little device which I hold in my hand represents the splendor of our unique political and economic system which created the goose that has laid this golden egg.

What began as a governmental political end, beat the Russians to the moon, culminated in a shower of new invention, which our capitalistic system was able to exploit like no other country on the planet.  No individual company could afford the staggering sum of money required to go to the moon, but government could, and along the way to the moon the law of un-intended consequences kicked in big time.

This amazing device could not have been produced without space, and it can not operate without space as it depends upon the GPS system.  This is not the only application that depends upon space.  Our entire military strategy of this country depends upon space and the GPS system.

Now, we are on the verge of ending our manned space program.  After the next three Shuttle flights there will not be a U.S. presence in space for fifteen or twenty years, and just possibly, never again.

President Obama has a “smart” plan for dealing with space, and by the way, there is no one more committed to space than President Obama.  His plan is to turn the program over to private enterprise!  See, he is a free market kind of guy after all. He doesn’t think that the government is capable of doing this well, so he is going to turn it over to the private sector.  I suppose this will give him more time to focus on General Motors.

The only little hitch here is that there is no private space industry, and it will take years for there to become one.  In the meantime, China, Russia, Brazil, and India are building robust space programs, and certainly the Chinese and Russians will leapfrog us during our long hiatus.

So, with our military entirely dependent on space, we will be content to let them fly around up there at will (opps, was that a U.S. satellite?), and beg rides from them when we need to fix something.

President Obama reportedly loves and is addicted to his I-phone, but one must wonder if he has any idea about where it came from?  But, then again, maybe he does.

Obama calls his space strategy “smart”, and it is very smart if your mission is to destroy this country as we have known it.

As a young man Peacock went to work for a small but very fast growing division of a large corporation. The division was growing at 40% per year and the section that I was in was growing at 100% per year. It was incredibly interesting and exciting. We all worked hard and long, morale was high and cooperation between departments was exceptional. This went on for about three years.

Then we got a new division president who brought in some new ideas. New ideas are often good but this person’s ideas didn’t fit the culture of our organization at all. One of the new ideas was a philosophy called “professional contention”. It is fairly self-explanatory and done the right way it probably has considerable benefit at driving multiple teams to coherent conclusions. Unhappily, the new division president was more of a manger than an executive leader. Emphasis began to be place more on contention than on professionalism. Departments and individuals contended in a manner that caused dissention and suspicion. Progress slowed. Barriers formed between departments.

But the real problem was that the division president didn’t see what was happening. As dissention and suspicion built there was less honesty in the sharing of information. Not only were there barriers between departments, there was also a barrier opening up between middle and executive management. Initially, the division president didn’t see what was happening in his organization. Eventually, he had no chance of seeing what was happening. He lived in a different company from the rest of us who were growing increasingly dissatisfied with our work environment. The best began to leave.

I can’t help but draw a comparison with what is happening in our great country. Our new President has brought in some ideas that our new for our country but old for the world. They have been tried elsewhere and have failed. He has surrounded himself with people who think just like he does. They are reinforcing their own beliefs with a constant stream of internal positive feedback. The majority of the country, according to polling systems that try their best to report without bias, disagrees dramatically with the President and his inner circle. The President’s response to this is to press on with his agenda as rapidly as he can and tell the majority in the country who disagree to “bring it on”. Sounds more like a novice, insecure manager than an executive leader.

As a young man Peacock was fortunate to have friends who provided him with an alternative go working in the division he was in. He went to the corporate headquarters where he went to work for the best leader he has ever known and now has the honor to have as a friend. This leader listened excellently to all of his people. By example this leader quietly demanded professionalism and showed us all how working together we could be great beyond our individual skills. As a result the organization became great and the individuals excelled. We kept our individuality and our special ways of doing thing and cooperated to share our skills with each other and with many others. Over time we celebrated great successes.

Leadership is a special talent. It can be learned but it is generally learned only by working for great leaders. A hallmark of great leaders is their special ability to make us individually and collectively proud of ourselves. To make us believe in ourselves so much that we achieve more than we ever thought possible. President Reagan had this special ability to nurture through leadership.

President Obama is more like the division president, referred to in the opening paragraphs, who failed. He is not listening to the majority of the American people. He has created a massive barrier between himself and Americans. He has created an increasing barrier between Washington and a growing number of States. His rapid series of secretive and forceful actions are creating an environment of distrust between Americans who are now choosing sides more than ever and angrily contending with each other. This contention has reached a dangerous level for our country and the President’s response is to “bring it on”.

Our President is not a leader and is not worthy of being in a leadership position. He is creating dissention, dissatisfaction and barriers to say nothing of destroying our economic infrastructure. We will be fortunate if our country survives his term of office without a massive economic collapse.

Peacock had the opportunity as a young man to leave his division that had a terrible leader and go elsewhere. But that option doesn’t feel available with our country. Peacock has lived elsewhere and knows beyond any doubt that our way of life, and our country, is the greatest in the world. Peacock won’t be leaving to go elsewhere and will continue to use this blog and other legal tools to remove our very destructive President from office.