Strategic positions are either advanced or they erode over time. The strength and creativity to advance a strategic position comes entirely from your belief in its underlying philosophy. While philosophies hold organizations together, the organization is physically supported by its ground, that is, its economic base. Societies are destroyed when components within a society are financially rewarded by staking out ground that attacks the society’s unifying philosophy. There are two large “complexes” in America that that are financially rewarded by attacking our underlying philosophy. Today, we will define just one of these, the “academic-entertainment complex.”

This article extends our discussion the American dream and its reliance on freedom of speech. In it, we will explore how elites leverage the misunderstanding of certain key ideas in communication to undermine our freedom. Usually, they do this without evil intent, but simply because we have all, both the elites and everyone else, become confused about the strategic requirements of operating within a free society, especially about what must and must not be controlled.

Strategy teaches you how to improve your position. Knowing more about strategy than your immediate rivals improves your own chances of success, but spreading the knowledge of strategy improves everyone chances of success. As taught by Sun Tzu, competition is not a zero-sum game. It is about everyone moving themselves into positions where they can produce and receive the most value. This leads us to a discussion about how, in opposing the American dream, the elites hurt us all and make the world a poorer place. Following up on my last post about the destruction of the American dream by portraying success as evil, I refer you to this recent article by George Will about Wal-Mart.  In the opinion of the vociferous elites, Wal-mart must pay its employees more. Representing those elites, the Chicago city council passed an ordinance to force Wal-Mart to raise its wages and benefits.  Meanwhile, back among us lesser mortals in the real world, more than 25,000 people applied for the 325 openings at a new suburban Chicago Wal-Mart. In the opinion of regular people like you and me, Wal-mart's pay package is better than good. In the not-so-celebrated opinion of 25,000 Chicago area residents, Wal-marts pay package was the best available to them. However, according to the elites, these people should NOT have the opportunity to work at Wal-mart under those terms. Wal-mart is evil for offering it to them and Wal-mart's evil opportunities must be stopped by the force of law.

I made the point in this earlier post that the Democrats lost their way when they abandoned their traditional roots of supporting the "little guy" and began to serve the political interests of large organizations, including large corporations, who naturally benefit from larger government.

Here are the facts from the NY Times: