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<h1>Do Not Accept the Weak State of Mind in Our Time</h1>
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<a href="#sec3">The Government of the Unites States</a>
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+<dl>
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-<a href="#sec4">Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil</a>
+<a href="#sec4">Healthcare <em>Reform</em></a>
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</dd>
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-<a href="#sec5">Misc</a>
+<a href="#sec5">Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec6">Misc</a>
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<dd>
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<dt>
-<a href="#sec6">Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (<code>Draft Revision 2</code>)</a>
+<a href="#sec7">Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (<code>Draft Revision 2</code>)</a>
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<dt>
-<a href="#sec7">Fewer Laws Are Better</a>
+<a href="#sec8">Fewer Laws Are Better</a>
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<dt>
-<a href="#sec8">Individuals should not have their actions regulated</a>
+<a href="#sec9">Individuals should not have their actions regulated</a>
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<dt>
-<a href="#sec9">Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated</a>
+<a href="#sec10">Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated</a>
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</dd>
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</dd>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec10">Social Ills</a>
+<a href="#sec11">Social Ills</a>
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<dl>
<dt>
-<a href="#sec11">Mass Culture</a>
+<a href="#sec12">Mass Culture</a>
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+<dd>
+<dl>
+<dt>
+<a href="#sec13">The Talking Heads</a>
+</dt>
+</dl>
+</dd>
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-<a href="#sec12">The Automobile</a>
+<a href="#sec14">The Automobile</a>
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-<a href="#sec13">Learned Ignorance and Weakness</a>
+<a href="#sec15">Learned Ignorance and Weakness</a>
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a liberal; nor am I a conservative. I do not buy into the traditional
socieconomic dipole scale, and I also reject the <em>political compass</em> two
dimensional scale; my political belief system could best be described
-as <em>positive anarchism</em> if you must have a label for it. 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. I reject the <em>ressentiment</em> of traditional anarchism
-and believe not that every man should have no master, but rather that
-he should be his own master.</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
+as <em>curmudgeonly bastard</em> 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 (<em>i.e</em> hating everything). I reject the
+<em>ressentiment</em> (lookit I'm Nietzsche) of traditional anarchism and
+believe not that every man should have no master (for then <em>all</em> would
+be weak), but rather that he should be his own master (does that even
+<em>mean</em> anything? Eh, it sounds nice so who cares).</p>
+
+<p>These short essays are mere stubs I wrote a long while ago, and each
+will perhaps be extended in the future.</p>
<h2><a name="sec1" id="sec1"></a>
<a href="Wisdom.html">The Basis of My Philosophy</a></h2>
-<p class="first">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.</p>
+<p class="first">I read some things and thought they were cool. Now I can make people
+think I'm smarter than I really am.</p>
<h2><a name="sec2" id="sec2"></a>
The Government of the Unites States</h3>
<p class="first">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.</p>
-
-<p>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.</p>
-
-
-<h3><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
+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.</p>
+
+<h4><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
+Healthcare <em>Reform</em></h4>
+
+<p class="first">Upon airing my objections to the current Healthcare <em>Reform</em> bill, I was
+asked: did you read the bill? To which I replied with action and read
+<a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-3590&tab=summary">the official summary of the bill</a>. And now I ask those who asked me if
+I had read it: have <em>you</em> read it. I received as a reply an unequivocal:
+<em>why should I have to</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Fun fact: it isn't as bad as some people make it seem, but guess what?
+<em>It does nothing beneficial to the individual</em>. 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 <em>Republicans</em> created them so they
+<em>must</em> be <em>evil</em>), 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.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile there is what amounts to no price controls, an actual <em>ban</em> 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 <em>tax deductible</em> (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.</p>
+
+<p>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!</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil</h3>
<p class="first">Cooperation is better than exploitation. How can one justify an
attempt to make the most profit from their labor so as to make some
profit?</p>
+<p>But then again, what does <em>evil</em> mean?</p>
-<h2><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
+
+<h2><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
Misc</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec6" id="sec6"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (<code>Draft Revision 2</code>)</h3>
generations.</p>
-<h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
Fewer Laws Are Better</h3>
-<h4><a name="sec8" id="sec8"></a>
+<h4><a name="sec9" id="sec9"></a>
Individuals should not have their actions regulated</h4>
-<h4><a name="sec9" id="sec9"></a>
+<h4><a name="sec10" id="sec10"></a>
Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated</h4>
<p class="first">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.</p>
+gives a large corporation much more than this.</p>
<h5>Corporate Personhood should be revoked</h5>
-<h2><a name="sec10" id="sec10"></a>
+<h2><a name="sec11" id="sec11"></a>
Social Ills</h2>
-<h3><a name="sec11" id="sec11"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec12" id="sec12"></a>
Mass Culture</h3>
<p class="first">American culture in the early 1900s began to homogenize, and now there
are met with the undefeatable enemy of a closed mind that has been
exposed to propaganda from birth.</p>
+<h4><a name="sec13" id="sec13"></a>
+The Talking Heads</h4>
-<h3><a name="sec12" id="sec12"></a>
+<p class="first">Poison the well. Burn a strawman.</p>
+
+<p>This is real argument. Real thought.</p>
+
+
+
+<h3><a name="sec14" id="sec14"></a>
The Automobile</h3>
-<h3><a name="sec13" id="sec13"></a>
+<h3><a name="sec15" id="sec15"></a>
Learned Ignorance and Weakness</h3>
<p><a href="Old%20Viewpoints.html">obsolete</a></p>
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-<p class="cke-footer"> We live in a time of revolution
- We swim the silent seas of sanity gone
+<p class="cke-footer">Corinne: this is why we should have designated bath buddies
+Corinne: to get places you cant reach because youre slippery and in
+ case you get a lil tooo slippery and crack your head open
+ someone can call the coast guard and save you
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<p class="cke-timestamp">Last Modified:
- September 26, 2008</p>
+ April 4, 2010</p>
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