The frontier is the place where people who cannot stand the bureaucracy go and they willingly

accept the hardships.

Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Little here with Steve Green and Scott Ott. And this is Right Angle. And this

particular week, it seems that our four topics have integrated together in a way that they

usually don't. They all seem to be linked together with each other.

Steve's topic this week was Elon Musk speaking about his plan for Ukraine, Russia to come to the

peace table. And neither one of the three of us thought much about that. But nevertheless,

Elon Musk did say something very recently that I thought was not only not silly and not superfluous, but was actually extraordinarily deep and actually somewhat courageous.

And this is what I'm talking about.

Tell me about regulations and red tape and all that kind of nonsense.

How big a part of the problem is all that?

It's something that we should be worried about is that the rules and regulations get more

and more every year.

In the past, war has wiped away bad rules and regulations, but also we prefer not to

have war as the means of getting rid of rules and regulations. In the absence of that, what happens is there are more laws and more regulations every single year, and eventually we won't be able to do anything.

Scott, I personally, as a student of history, I think that Elon Musk is absolutely right.

And I don't like that he's right. In fact, I can't stand

the fact that he's right. But this is the curse of having a commitment to truth and reality.

You often see things that you would like not to be true. And one of the things that I would

like not to be true would be that you do not require war to burn away all of the parasitical

growths that attach itself to a civilization that is not constantly

confronted with existential threats.

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