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The Government of the Unites States
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+Healthcare Reform
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-Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil
+Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil
-Misc
+Misc
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-Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (
Draft Revision 2)
+Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (Draft Revision 2)
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-Fewer Laws Are Better
+Fewer Laws Are Better
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-Individuals should not have their actions regulated
+Individuals should not have their actions regulated
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-Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated
+Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated
-Social Ills
+Social Ills
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-Mass Culture
+Mass Culture
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+The Talking Heads
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-The Automobile
+The Automobile
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-Learned Ignorance and Weakness
+Learned Ignorance and Weakness
@@ -80,12 +94,13 @@ 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 curmudgeonly bastard if you must have a label for it. This is only
-because being an curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
+because being a curmudgeonly bastard isn't an ideology, but rather a
broad set of ideas centered around the rejection of traditional
-heriarchial 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.
+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.
@@ -111,8 +126,44 @@ 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.
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+Healthcare Reform
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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!
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+
Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil
Cooperation is better than exploitation. How can one justify an
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Misc
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Long Term Copyright Causes Harm to Society (Draft Revision 2)
@@ -250,14 +301,14 @@ lifetime of the author and seventy years after; a span of roughly six
generations.
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Fewer Laws Are Better
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Individuals should not have their actions regulated
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Corporations must have their actions heavily regulated
Corporate power disrupts the functioning of a free society. If the
@@ -276,10 +327,10 @@ gives a large corporation much more than this.
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Social Ills
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Mass Culture
American culture in the early 1900s began to homogenize, and now there
@@ -299,8 +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.
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+The Talking Heads
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Poison the well. Burn a strawman.
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+This is real argument. Real thought.
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The Automobile
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Learned Ignorance and Weakness
obsolete
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Last Modified:
- December 11, 2008
+ January 21, 2013