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.
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.
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.
- - -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 +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!
+ + + +Cooperation is better than exploitation. How can one justify an @@ -127,12 +171,14 @@ economic system based upon paying others as little as possible in an attempt to make the most profit from their labor so as to make some profit?
+But then again, what does evil mean?
-Draft Revision 2)Corporate power disrupts the functioning of a free society. If the @@ -270,8 +316,7 @@ power wielded by a corporation were merely the sum of the individuals 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.American culture in the early 1900s began to homogenize, and now there @@ -305,8 +350,16 @@ discouraged, and those of us who wish to argue our points with logic are met with the undefeatable enemy of a closed mind that has been exposed to propaganda from birth.
+Poison the well. Burn a strawman.
+ +This is real argument. Real thought.
+ + + +