Things appear to be breaking down

Opinion

There's a pattern I try to discern amongst my web visitations, and then I blog about it here. The article that got me thinking along the lines of disintegration is this one from Instapundit.  If you follow the links and think about it, the entire World Wide Web as we know it could be at risk.

In its turn, the World Wide Web, or internet, has been quite destructive to the old bricks and mortar way. Now the web itself could be in danger. The web relies upon free content. If the advertisers can't monetize visitations, there can be no business basis. If there's no basis for business, the economics cannot be supported.

That would be quite a pickle, since the web itself has been so destructive. What replaces the web if it goes under? There's nothing left.

I think this could be a metaphor for the entire society. Everywhere you look, it seems, there's this disintegration.

The business about Holder and executive privilege is another example. It's all about the rule of law, but this government is acting more and more alienated to that regime, and a new vicious one could be replacing it. That regime would be called the rule of men. The same accusation that brought down the Nixon administration.

The difference then was an infrastructure that could support the rule of law. What happens if that has disappeared, or is no longer possible for some reason? Like the rest of society breaking down, for instance? The economic basis for a civilized society is losing its foundation. The Federal Reserve prints money to support an economy that produces little, but a lot debt. But how does the debt get paid back? It doesn't, that's the whole point.

Not everything that supports a civilization is reliant upon the use of force.  You have to have a morality that governs individual behavior.  If that breaks down too, the result must be chaos.  The only way to restore order is to use an extraordinary amount of force.  That brings you back to the rule of men as opposed to the rule of law.

People have also lost their sense of reality.  If you can't discern the truth, and won't listen to reason, what can anchor you?  Yet that is the way people tend to be acting.  It is madness.  It is the very definition of madness.

Something has to bring us back to center.  First principles should be recognized-- the rule of law must be one of those.  Also, there's no such thing as a free lunch.  Debts must be paid.  Income must be earned to pay those debts.

Hopefully the way will be found before things get so lost that getting back may be impossible.

Update:

The madness isn't entirely coming from the left. I saw something on the net that said Romney may attack Iran if he becomes president.

That's even more nuts than what Obama is doing. The opportunity for military action of this type has passed.