X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/clinton/website/site/unknownlamer.org.git/blobdiff_plain/8a7c1bf77acdb57c101736e69fadffc17bc2f329..f12f628de4d5858a365bca8bf55cb3217f711207:/Politics.muse diff --git a/Politics.muse b/Politics.muse index 0421978..f1615a9 100644 --- a/Politics.muse +++ b/Politics.muse @@ -4,43 +4,68 @@ I have views that could perhaps be seen as odd. Do note that I am **not** 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 @@ -49,6 +74,8 @@ 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? + * Misc ** Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (=Draft Revision 2=) @@ -173,7 +200,9 @@ lifetime of the author and seventy years after; a span of roughly six 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 @@ -181,10 +210,10 @@ 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. **** Corporate Personhood should be revoked + **** Corporations should not be allowed to influence politics * Social Ills @@ -208,6 +237,12 @@ 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. +*** 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