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# From the Notebooks
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/6238/
- Published: 2008-09-18T11:06:03.000Z
- Updated: 2008-09-18T11:06:03.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Politics, #wpChunk

Premise: Security hurts. The more security you seek, the slower, more inefficient, costly, and duller that area of your life becomes.

*Check your stove five times: Slower leaving the house.*  
 *A bureaucracy makes sure everything works uniformly: Inefficient (and dull).*  
 *Military might: Costly.*

This doesn't mean security isn't good. It does mean we should not greet it as an unequivocal good. It also means we should seek the right kind of security. Ask: Why didn't the Depression hurt the Amish? It's because they seek the right kind of security, one that accepts simple living, self-sufficiency, and community living and forgoes the urge to acquire great wealth. The desire for great wealth brings with it a risk of great impoverishment. Americans want the ability to strive for wealth, but they want a safety net, too. That's the incongruity. See Crunden, *Nock*, page 170.