a liberal; nor am I a conservative. I do not buy into the traditional
socieconomic dipole scale, and I also reject the *political compass* two
dimensional scale; my political belief system could best be described
-as anarchism if you must have a label for it. Naturally this is only
-because anarchism isn't an ideology, but rather a broad set of ideas
-centered around the rejection of traditional heriarchial political and
-social structures.
-
-These short essays are continually evolving, and each will be split
-into its own page as the ideas contained within it are fleshed out in
-my mind. Writing things down tends to help me to do this for there are
-limits to how much information the top of my head can hold limiting
-the usefulness of internal thought once an idea becomes complex
-enough. Political and social beliefs are perhaps the most complicated
-ideas a man can have because of our complex intertwined social
-structures.
+as *curmudgeonly bastard* if you must have a label for it. This is only
+because being a curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
+broad set of ideas centered around the rejection of traditional
+political and social structures (*i.e* hating everything). I reject the
+*ressentiment* (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional anarchism and
+believe not that every man should have no master (for then *all* would
+be weak), but rather that he should be his own master (does that even
+*mean* anything? Eh, it sounds nice so who cares).
+
+These short essays are mere stubs I wrote a long while ago, and each
+will perhaps be extended in the future.
* [[Wisdom][The Basis of My Philosophy]]
-It is often helpful to know what someone considers as the basis of his
-philosophy when interpeting what he has written. As such I have
-compiled a page of links and quotations to reveal the inner secrets of
-my mind.
+I read some things and thought they were cool. Now I can make people
+think I'm smarter than I really am.
* The Current Economic and Political Structure Is Broken
** The Government of the Unites States
I feel that the government in the United States is very close to being
-broken beyond repair. As it stands the government above the local
-level ignores the individual citizen and instead is only affected by
-large scale action. As far as the individual is concerned we no longer
-live in a Republic, but rather in an Oligarchy which is quickly
-descending into something far worse.
-
-I do feel that there is still some reform that could be made in the
-near (ten years perhaps) future that could allow the government to
-become tolerable again. We are, however, quite close to the edge where
-there will be no fixing it. If that threshold is passed we are in for
-terrible times.
+broken beyond repair (perhaps this is a bit conservative, but one must
+hope). As it stands the government above the local level (and even
+there!) ignores the individual citizen and instead is only forced to
+do anything by large scale action. As far as the individual is
+concerned we no longer live in a Republic, but rather in an Plutocracy
+which is quickly descending into something far worse.
+
+*** Healthcare *Reform*
+
+Upon airing my objections to the current Healthcare *Reform* bill, I was
+asked: did you read the bill? To which I replied with action and read
+[[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3590&tab=summary][the official summary of the bill]]. And now I ask those who asked me if
+I had read it: have *you* read it. I received as a reply an unequivocal:
+*why should I have to*.
+
+Fun fact: it isn't as bad as some people make it seem, but guess what?
+*It does nothing beneficial to the individual*. All it does it require
+that anyone over 30 purchase insurance, severely restricts the usage
+of Health Savings Accounts (which, may be not so bad--I have no
+opinion on their usefulness... but *Republicans* created them so they
+*must* be *evil*), and is generally a piece of hey-look-I-did-something
+(but nothing goes into effect until I am out of office)
+legislation. This has never happened before, obviously. We are on the
+surface of Mars now too didn't you know.
+
+Meanwhile there is what amounts to no price controls, an actual *ban* on
+the formation of State run healthcare (until 2017, and then only at
+the discretion of the HHS secretary), and token (unfunded) support for
+the formation of healthcare cooperatives. There are some taxes on
+large drug makers, but the research required by the FDA for drug
+approval is *tax deductible* (and so the larger drug makers can avoid
+most of the new taxes, har). And... an excise tax on overly fancy
+healthcare plans... more or less, a nice bill that, if it manages to
+not be overturned by 2018, will do absolutely nothing one way or the
+other.
+
+It is obvious that I am indeed a dirty Nazi redneck terrorist
+teabagger Republican piece of shit who hates the poor and black
+people. I guess it's time for my white ass to move to Iran and see how
+I like it there!
** Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil
attempt to make the most profit from their labor so as to make some
profit?
+But then again, what does *evil* mean?
+
* Misc
** Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (=Draft Revision 2=)
generations.
** Fewer Laws Are Better
+
*** Individuals should not have their actions regulated
+
*** Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated
Corporate power disrupts the functioning of a free society. If the
that composed it there would be little issue; the fundamental problem
is that the benefits of gaining access to mass production facilities
and a huge workforce that can be forced to cooperate on certain goals
-gives a large corporation much more power than the simple sum of its
-members.
+gives a large corporation much more than this.
**** Corporate Personhood should be revoked
+
**** Corporations should not be allowed to influence politics
* Social Ills
are met with the undefeatable enemy of a closed mind that has been
exposed to propaganda from birth.
+*** The Talking Heads
+
+Poison the well. Burn a strawman.
+
+This is real argument. Real thought.
+
** The Automobile
; How far is your average trip in a car? If you don't often go further
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