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@@ -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
 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]]
 
 
 * [[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
 
 * 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
 
 
 ** 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?
 
 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=)
 * 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
 generations.
 
 ** Fewer Laws Are Better

+

 *** Individuals should not have their actions regulated
 *** 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
 *** 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
 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
 
 **** Corporate Personhood should be revoked

+

 **** Corporations should not be allowed to influence politics
 
 * Social Ills
 **** 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.
 
 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
 ** The Automobile
 
 ; How far is your average trip in a car? If you don't often go further