A bit more accurate description of the politics page

* Intro text updates (anarchist no more)
* Remove a bit of text
* Revise things a bit to better reflect my current beliefs

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@@ -4,45 +4,33 @@ 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 *positive anarchism* 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 *ressentiment* of traditional anarchism
-and believe not that every man should have no master, but rather that
-he should be his own master.
-
-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 an 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.
+
+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.
 
 ** Capitalism is Intrinsically Evil
 
@@ -51,6 +39,8 @@ 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=)
@@ -185,8 +175,7 @@ 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.
 
 **** Corporate Personhood should be revoked