WASHINGTON — In physics, a unified field theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis the behavior of several fields. Its political corollary is the Cupcake Postulate, which explains everything, from Missouri to Iraq, concerning Americans’ comprehensive withdrawal of confidence from government at all levels and all areas of activity.

Washington’s response to the menace of school bake sales illustrates progressivism’s ratchet: The federal government subsidizes school lunches, so it must control the lunches’ contents, which validates regulation of what it calls “competitive foods,” such as vending machine snacks. Hence the need to close the bake sale loophole, through which sugary cupcakes might sneak: Foods sold at fundraising bake sales must, with some exceptions, conform to federal standards.

What has this to do with police, from Ferguson, Mo., to your hometown, toting marksman rifles, fighting knives, grenade launchers and other combat gear? Swollen government has a shriveled brain: By printing and borrowing money, government avoids thinking about its proper scope and actual competence. So it smears mine-resistant armored vehicles and other military marvels across 435 congressional districts because it can.

And instead of making immigration policy serve the nation’s values and workforce needs, government, egged on by conservatives, aspires to emulate East Germany along the Rio Grande, spending scores of billions to militarize a border bristling with hardware bought by previous scores of billions. Much of this is justified by America’s longest losing “war,” the one on drugs. Is it, however, necessary for NASA to have its own SWAT team?

A cupcake-policing government will find unending excuses for flexing its muscles as it minutely monitors our behavior in order to improve it, as Debra Harrell, 46, a South Carolina single mother, knows. She was jailed for “unlawful neglect” of her 9-year-old daughter when she left her, with a cellphone, to play in a park while she worked at a nearby McDonald’s.

Resistance to taxation, although normal and healthy, is today also related to the belief that government is thoroughly sunk in self-dealing, indiscriminate meddling and the lunatic spending that lards police forces with devices designed for conquering Fallujah. People know that no normal person can know one-tenth of 1 percent of what the government is doing.

In Federalist Paper 84, Alexander Hamilton assured readers that although the proposed Constitution would increase the power of a distant federal government, this government would be inhibited by scrutiny: “The citizens who inhabit the country at and near the seat of government will, in all questions that affect the general liberty and prosperity, have the same interest with those who are at a distance, and ... they will stand ready to sound the alarm when necessary.” Not now, when five of the nation’s richest 10 counties, ranked by median household income, are Washington suburbs, parasitic off the federal government. The people who write the regulations of school lunches must live somewhere.

Darin Simak, a first-grader in New Kensington, Pa., who accidentally brought a toy gun to school in his backpack, turned it in to his teacher. School administrators then suspended him because the school has a “zero-tolerance policy.” What children frequently learn at schools is that schools often are run by biological adults incapable of common-sense judgments.

“We simply cannot allow toxic things to be in our schools,” said a spokesman for the Texas school district that confiscated the suntan lotion of a 10-year-old who then became sunburned on a school trip. Students, the spokesman explained, “could ingest it. It’s really just a dangerous situation.” Not as dangerous as entrusting children to schools run by mindless martinets.

Contempt for government cannot be hermetically sealed; it seeps into everything. Which is why cupcake regulations have foreign policy consequences. Americans, inundated with evidence that government is becoming dumber and more presumptuous, think it cannot be trusted to decipher foreign problems and apply force intelligently.

The collapse of confidence in government is not primarily because many conspicuous leaders are conspicuously dimwitted, although when Joe Biden refers to “the nation of Africa,” or Harry Reid disparages the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision as rendered by “five white men” (who included Clarence Thomas), Americans understand that their increasingly ludicrous government lacks adult supervision. What they might not understand is that Reids and Bidens come with government so bereft of restraint and so disoriented by delusions of grandeur that it gives fighting knives to police and grief to purveyors of noncompliant cupcakes.

• George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

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I’ll resist the temptation to be insincere when commenting on the endless hopelessness of American society or what instrument the media plays in the whole affair, but romanticizing a straight injustice that weeds its way through our daily lives like were just supposed to accept it isn’t going to fly with me.

Gun violence begins and ends with the one who pulls the trigger. It doesn’t matter if you’re a policeman or a criminal. When you shoot an unarmed human being with a gun, you murdered them! There isn’t any amount of neighborly love or feeling of support that is going to change it.

I understand the importance of seeing things from a different perspective, but the reason this is happening is because we are tired of it. It happens in a school and we mourn. It happens at the Mall and we mourn. It happens over and over again by a certain organized institution towards the ones their supposed to be protecting then were done mourning. It’s time to start chucking some rocks and bottles and open up a can of whoop ass on them. That is the spirit that is captured by the media and being displayed on national television.

What the media will never do is stop trying to blow up every dignified thing Americans have ever been proud of because there is no money in it. It doesn’t capture a lot of attention and it sure doesn’t boost ratings. The media is a controlled entity, just like the justice system and a political machine. It doesn’t want division to lose to peace!

People are generally good in nature and it’s their instinct to care for one another, but when being manipulated they turn dangerous and violent just like any other animal. What seems to be the cause of it all is the constant rule of thumb to override clear judgment. Just because you look suspect doesn’t mean you are suspect and when authority figures learn to deal with others on an equal basis then and only then will we truly be united.

United we stand and divided we fall, so what is so unclear about our fall in America? Racism divides us and every demonstration shown over and over again on television contributes to the fact that somewhere power brokers enjoy the division because it’s good for business. People buy more guns and ammunition when their afraid. The only problem is that the ones who are afraid don’t get guns only the ones who make people afraid have guns.

It’s simple history that goes all the way back to the start of civilization. Oppress people and they will revolt against you. Educate people and they will communicate with you on an educated level, but that doesn't happen when you attack them merely because of their appearance.

The beginning of this piece started when George Will explained, "a unified field theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis the behavior of several fields." The theory he called the Cupcake Postulate. In the responding comment section everything from how he was a over liberalized an over educated hack to it is our own fault for electing people who don't have our best interests at heart.

I am opposed to demeaning a qualified writer for stating plain simple information on a observance he or she has made. I'm also opposed to shouldering the blame for this circumstance because I'm a citizen of this country, but also because I'm a citizen of another country that is often overlooked. In Indian country, we look at the world and respond with a hefty, "Well now it's your turn, you don't like it to much," because we have been dealing with the foreign invasion of our homeland for a lot longer.

My ancestors had geopolitical and a economic system that worked just find for thousands of years until we were so-called discovered. The balance was obtained though absolute necessity to survive. You see, when you have idle time to consider how to manage your neighbor's affairs, nothing good can come from it and that essentially is what government is, a control system.  

Take the early civilization of debate in Greco-Roman times for example. Why did they need a set of laws to institute their philosophy around the world? It was out of the need to control foreign territories. They had to decide if the people they were conquering were people at all because if they were people than they had rights. This was done in a multiple deity society mind you where the sink or swim test was to ask the conquered if they acknowledged the Dominant societies gods.

In our society, we don't even get that far because of the so called institution of government that abides by laws that were written by the people for the people and answers to the people except for one little exception, it doesn't apply to Tribes. We are the exception because many of us will never totally disseminate from our own society to join that of a foreign society, especially when there is no incentive to do so.

In the late 1800's and early 1900's we were forced onto the land that today we are excused of just free-loading off of. People say we get everything for free while they continue to self destroy the country that we took care of for thousands of years. Everything from were godless savages to mindless neanderthals has been claimed by the government considering us and now scientists are trying to say we aren't even the original inhabitants of this continent. This blog's title is Paleolithic because in my first post I ever wrote I stated the case that undermining a whole race of people's claim to be humans on this place on earth removes any claim they have to the exact location of their inhabitants and therefore null and voids any rights they possess.

Again, I'll restate it towards the one's experiencing just a fraction of what my people went through, "It doesn't feel to good now does it." When you take in regard the fact that the average citizen is comfortable to address the problem without fear of repercussions than consider that my people have had to adjust to a forced dependency because it is literally against the law for them to carry on their life in a usual and accustomed manner, you start to realize there is no comparison.

It can't be overstated that the vulnerable citizens in society are not in the situation because they chose to be subservient, but because they had no choice. So now I will back track my claim that it is not completely the same scenario that African American people are experiencing an injustice anymore or less severe than Native Americans or Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans. My point is that we are all experiencing a system that coherently doesn't follow a path that continues to keep our best interest in mind therefore we are not treated truly equal in a system that doesn't provide a way for that to happen.

What initiative we have is to overcome racial bigotry for the same reason other races in other eras had to overcome those same challenges. "We shall overcome," is not a mantra or a spiritual heme. It is a fact that our numbers are greater and will continue to be greater in the future. The more resistance toward the realization of this fact is obvious when The leader of the most powerful country in the world was elected, twice.

The times that we lay down our lives to correct a harsh reality that in the dominant race theory, "blood is thicker than water," is upon us. Minority blood has been spilled all over this land and it is literally built on ethnic slavery. Every construct of every race has been subject to exploitation through manifest destiny. Only the destiny involves the figurative as well as literal sense that life liberty and the pursuit of happiness doesn't only belong to one race of people, but to all who embrace it's principles.

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The common perception is that cars are getting engineered to be more fuel efficient and the safety standards are always increasing, but it's my opinion that manufacturing processes in America are being driven by material providers and modular equipment assembly. How did I come to this conclusion? Well if you care to ask then maybe you have a few minutes to listen to me describe the difference between American made cars and their foreign competitors.

First let me explain modular equipment assembly because it is a pretty fascinating process where the computerized robot assembles a vehicle on a production line. When you think about a production line, you visualize the common robot arm like in the movie Iron Man where there is a lot of sparks flying and the robot makes all these previous calculated moves and welds the car together, but the truth is that is only one part of the process.

Yes there is a robot that does the welding like in Iron Man, actually there are probably thousands of them doing the welding in a manufacture plant then the skeleton bodies are shipped next door to another assembly site where they put the hoods and the doors on, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. It all begins with steel.

In the old days, steel made up the frame of the car and molded body panels were stamped out of steel like in the movie 8 mile where Detroit based rapper Enimen worked for like a second on a hood stamping machine, but let's face it most parts today are plastic, so the only steel you find is in the parts underneath the plastic and a lot of those parts are either cast aluminum\steel hybrids or some other material because it's cheaper.

That brings me to the notion that American economy and vehicle manufacturing are intricately linked by the very fact that cars aren't made 100% of steel anymore. when you think of Detroit as the capitol of the big three companies of GM, Ford and Chrysler your really mistaking cars for steel mills. Back in World War I and II the government ordered all the steel mills to give their steel to companies to make tanks and airplanes as well as military vehicles, so the American car manufacturer was really just an after thought of gutting foreign made product like in Germany and Japan because we devastated them in war.

So, the American car companies have always been an arm of the government and are technically a part of a socialist program just in case you ever believed that we would let Detroit go bankrupt or believe the politician claim that they saved them from bankruptcy because that was never going to happen just like too big to fail banks and financial brokers because our government is as much in dept to them as they are to us.

Anyway, my point is that foreign manufactures had to rebuild after wars and when they did they looked at their manufacturing processes and adjusted for all steel bodies and other piece meal processes that adjudicated having to make more with less resources.

This in turn made their vehicles smaller and faster which brought the price down and made them a competitive alternative to bigger more expensive American made vehicles. Then in the 70's their was a gas crisis and that to was, excuse the pun, fueled by war and global political strategies which again forced American based companies to follow their foreign competition in manufacturing processes.

To get back to my original point of the American made vehicles being dictated in manufacturing by material providers and equipment assembly known as modular assembly, let me explain a jig which is like a form or a metal plate that hold parts of a car together while it is being assembled. A jig doesn't really need to be just one thing or you don't need many jigs for every part of the car, but it can be a piece of equipment that holds together  many parts of the car. Let's say you have a jig for the motor and another for the front end and still another jig for the transmission and so and and so forth... This is what is meant by a modular assembly because you don't have to go back to the drawing bored and I can't help myself, to "Redesign the Wheel," but when you want to change the engine from a 8 cylinder to a 6 cylinder you just switch out the jig for the motor and keep on producing cars.

Modular assembly allows the manufacture to produce different models of the same car to give the customer options like 4 track or sport vehicle and the like. It doesn't work so much in cases where you jump from a mid size to a full size or an economy size car or truck though and this is one of the main differences in American car manufacturing and the foreign competitor. Keep in mind, I'm not saying the foreign manufacture doesn't use modular assembly or jigs, but the major difference is the process where they individualize certain parts of the car like the drive train or the motor.

To give an example, a 2015 average American SUV is somewhere around 4k to 5K pounds in gross weight. It has an average of a 8 cylinder 4-5 Liter engine and a 3-4 liter 6 cylinder. In contrast a foreign vehicle usually is smaller and sometimes only comes in a 6 cylinder version. Now before you interrupt and point out that they make Toyota tundra's and Nissan full size vehicles let me explain that they only make those to sell in America.

In America we like things big and the bigger the better right? Well realistically that concept doesn't work to well with cars. It takes more power to push more weight and so they keep having to add more power to the engine which costs more and again adds more weight. You might say, "Well bigger is better because it's safer." I would counter that you should remember that 65% of the vehicle is made of plastic or some really thin metal that is designed to crumble like an aluminum can when it's wrecked, so your safer argument goes literally out the window.

You might say, well "there are seat belt technology and air bags," but again foreign vehicles have that to in fact their probably the one's that came up with the technology because foreign competition has been so intense that to slow importing American regulatory standards have been invented to deter importing and foreign manufactures responded by making systems so good American manufactures copy them.

To drive home the point that American manufacturers really are beholden to suppliers that just want to sell more material instead of bringing down their material prices to where automobile makers would just buy more material and make more cars and trucks, think about this; Most of the parts aren't even assembled in America. No, every major manufacturer has parts assembled in Mexico or Canada for one reason or another. Again, you can argue that it's because union worker wages or regulatory requirements, but the fact is we give cuts and deals to our manufacturers, but they are controlled by stake holders who would rather ship jobs over seas than see their profits go down.

What set off all this recollection of information is the fact that I was reading about how the Chrysler 300 was so big and of course the thought provoking image of "bigger is better," came to mind, but the fact is it isn't true. Bigger doesn't mean better just like lighter doesn't mean faster when you think about the quantity of material were adding to vehicles. The Chrysler 300 is a perfect example of this concept being untrue. I looked at these cars and they do look big, but then I drove one and it reminded me of the midsize sedans of the nineties. It wasn't bigger in interior dimension and therefore comfort. It only looked bigger because of the large quarter panels and the long hood and fenders.

It started my thought process about our perception of American made cars and the recent realization that advertisement and reporting news stories have crossed a line today where as consumers we think were being told a news story, but really it's just advertisement.