I've been cycling through my mind in high-gear lately... sorting out the attic, so to speak, when suddenly it strikes me that I have not yielded a definitive product of imagination for ages! It would be unfair of me to say I've been doing nothing at all, as I've been accumulating much knowledge of many topics, as well as passively chipping away at certain projects...
I have this horrendous habit of stacking on new ideas and barely getting around to any of them... My enthusiasm for a broad range of knowledge has suddenly left me questioning just whether or not I actually KNOW anything at all. A thought will come suddenly which breaks me completely off the rails of whatever train of thought was carrying me before... and yet despite this imperfection I can still see my indecisive nature as a boon, and not a curse(as it is considered by those without patience). I am slow when I am aware that the reasons for acting are not clear, or I am becoming familiar with the instructions. But when I act, I am ready to act, and I perform my actions in modest form without injury. I realize that mistakes are part of the learning process, and so I allow my imagination to follow through with theories before I physically test them... thus avoiding some embarrassment.
Well... as I've said, I simple am not content with my output lately... I don't wish to make things to brag, but I wish to verify that I am contributing to a more promising future for those of us who are destined to live through tomorrow.
I have a mental "inbox" of poetic musings which are demanding to be transcribed into a format I may share... Songs to be sung. Insights to be read aloud. Stories to be acted out.
I have begun carving as a hobby and need to finish my first project.
I'm beginning to study horticulture hands-on, and I would like to start logging what I'm up to.
One thing I am absolutely in need of is a big fat life changing victory... I need to put away any excuses and just DO a serious fitness program that will change me dramatically with 3 months worth of dedication... I believe I may need to actually DO a routine again. As much as I enjoy spontaneity, it seems that leaving myself to do what I want all of the time makes me a slave to my least attractive habits(sleeping in and getting creative in the kitchen are only good activities when partners are involved... so until my imaginary friends grow flesh...) I have done it before; A serious fitness routine. I accomplished about 2/3rds of my goal before spraining my ankle. After that it wasn't so much about giving up as it was about following my heart and hitchhiking to Rainbowland. Three years of awkward truces with reality later, here I am. Freshly survived the end of the world and ready to dig my toes into this new earth.
I don't intend to follow one course religiously, but I do intend to blend elements of everything I've considered thus far and SERIOUSLY chart and measure results. Now where's the scale...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Why not?
Okay. Here's a tiny sampling from what I'm working on... Offered humbly for your respectfully equal constructive criticism and/or de-constructive witticism. I'm somewhat, if not all ways keenly aware of my errors.
...and
now for something not nigh-completely different
We haven't
left the topic of “dietary considerations” in this chapter of
“religion” at any point. Connection: the dogma of fear under the
banner of “old glory” is a religion that unites the industrial
militarist states of Amerigo Vespucci. Connection(speculative):
children are dying from all causes within the borders of Gaza at a
rate more highly concentrated than anywhere else on the globe...
There are no coincidences. This is the tithe you pay for the religion
of “he who has the gold makes the rules”, “money is power, and
might makes right”. A religion based on fear of honest questions. A
religion based on unyielding faith in the “ever-beneficent”
wizard(s) behind the DARPA-engineered fiber optic media curtain(eat
your heart out, soviet Russia). This is the US-American
(anti-)religion. This is the melting pot, turned into a powder-keg
after sitting on the burner precisely 1 century past the last drop of
steam to escape. The federal reserve begat the military industrial
complex. The military industrial complex begat corporate heads of
state. The corporate heads of state begat repressive
resent-atives(repress-anti-tives?). The resent-atives begat puppet
shows. And your political scene took on the intellectual theme of
“Telletubbies”. Your current master of puppets has risen to
notoriety under the catchphrase “yes we can”(record that phrase
and play it in reverse for a laugh sometime), echoed under purely
Utopian(fancy and artfully masterful) banners of “hope” and
“change”. The public continues to seem enamored by this giggling
black baby, serving his (hopefully ONLY) 8 years as the sun of your
united ignorance... Yes, I pointed out that he's black. It's
“progressive” of the producers to cast a “minority”. The
grown-ups know how market demographics operate, and you're the
biggest sucker in the universe if you thought that Mitt wasn't just
the catcher in the rye who lost the game without even playing.
McCain, or his next comic book villain equivalent will be back again
to play bogeyman in the next chapter. Those awkward boners just seem
to pop up every reap year for the big gay sword fight your country
terms “erections”. Excuse me, I lapsed into the voice of an old
Chinese business man for a moment there, I meant “elections”.
Hopefully you'll forgive me. I'm also informed that “gay” means
something more than just “happy”. My cultural advisor in AIPAC
will be dragged offstage and shot by other payroll minions for your
appeasement. C'est la vie. All's fair in love and business, eh? Hey,
let's catch the back 9 and knock back some brews before our
Builder-bob meeting... I need to be real mellow before they start
throwing around words like “austerity” that I just can't be made
to give a shit about.
Literary
train wreck.
Is
what I would call a paragraph that begins with “we” and ends in a
sarcastic, semi-fictional “I”... and the rest of this emerging
seemingly irreverent cat's-ass-trophy. I'll say this in defense of my
book: It's no hairball, but it's got some harbles. Books are
inherently escapist, even when they delve into the abstractions of
technicality under the heading of “non-fiction”. You are now and
forever right here, right now. If you're learning, you're passing
into the future of your own imagining. If you're regressing, you're
charging headfirst to an early grave. Either way, you are moving your
eyes over these symbols in order to experience something which you
are not inherently perceiving in your relative “now”. If you're
seeing this sentence, you have validated my existence as a writer,
and I am feeling finer than Dostoevsky ever did in his day. Thank
you.
Monday, January 28, 2013
duuuuuuuump
"I'm just sitting here, wasting time..."
Hello again, everyone. I've been feeding myself a heavy dose of "don't fuck with this" as a prescription to my incessant facebook status updates... The laptop has been in "airport mode" entirely as I go further down the rabbit hole of what I have to consider my own imagining. I don't fully believe anything is MINE per-say, as everything in my mind is the result of outside information, passing through the hall of mirrors, so to speak. They're my mirrors, but they're a blank slate without my own history for reference.
The reason for this blog post is, well... I need a break from the limited music selection I have offline. Normally, I would be listening to Tom Waits, No More Kings, Jamiroquai, Regina Spektor, Refused, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, and/or The (international) Noise Conspiracy. This comes along with booting up my computer with my Linux-based operating system "Ubuntu". The problem with Ubuntu is that I'm hooked on Spotify and intimidated by the beta version for Linux as it stands, owing to my own neophyte status with command prompts.
My favorite program, among many neat program that come with Ubuntu, is LibreOffice. I have been compiling a literary train wreak of madly loving thoughts which I aspire to shape into a publishable work of print. The inspiration for this comes from the inherent prettiness of Ubuntu's graphic user interface. The default font is called "Liberation", and it looks just-right when the alignment is set to "Justified". I'm contained by the walls of a nifty apartment at the end of civilization... How could I resist the urge to pretend I'm a writer?
I doubt I'll ever be a Steven King or John Grisham, but I could see myself becoming a sort of cheery version of PKD(Philip K Dick) over time. Having no one but myself for a critic is both liberating and eternally frustrating... I am free to go mad with my words, but constantly pressing "backspace" two times for every letter I type... This blog is the most "stream of consciousness" I've done in a while, and even now I am contemplating just not sending it out... Good thing I'm nothing if not stubborn, and I told myself to pinch off some brain nuggets for the interweb this afternoon.
Information wants to be free... and this book is begging me to finish it. Enjoying Spotify as I am is yielding a fair amount of guilt for neglecting my project, and yet... it seems a reasonable break. I do want to run a press when I'm through with this, but I'm not going to bother shopping it around. I'll publish it as a .pdf with a suggested donation, and/or find an indy press that does small order, sustainably-sourced printings(hemp paper, soy ink... I'm not comfortable producing any more books from trees. It's just inferior in every sense.)
My best wish for the finished result is that I will be flooded with letters from distressed english teachers. That will be my personal hallmark of success; an audience of people who think they know better. ( lol @ Vonnegut ;) )
So what the fuck am I rambling about today, here and now? *shrugs* I'unno... Nothin'... What does it matter? if it's not fun to read, well... sorry you bothered. This isn't my book, and I'm not begging for you to look... but since you're here... how about I put a bit more effort into it... Would you like a poem(or "pome" *chortle*)?
There once was a boy from maine,
who thought you all did look the same.
He wanted to say,
in his own special(-ed.) way,
That maine in no way can make rhyme with "lame"!
Like it? That's an "ABCCB"-style limerick... Did I blow your AABBA mind? ...I'm not impressed... and this is getting rather silly.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
...I'm NOT sorry!
Let's see... How about some sound advice?
Be sure to catch a sunbeam every day you can... and keep a happy picture on hand at all times... or a bag of weed... unless you're a grower, in which case, throw that plant in a juicer and let the cannabinoids massage your grown up brain into second-childhood... Now that I think of it... "marijuana" is a smoke-able "drug"... Is it even against the law to have raw juice from the plant(with cranberry-orange, perhaps)?
I'm off to google search... That's all for today. *hugs* I love you people. Thanks for putting up with my shit :)
Hello again, everyone. I've been feeding myself a heavy dose of "don't fuck with this" as a prescription to my incessant facebook status updates... The laptop has been in "airport mode" entirely as I go further down the rabbit hole of what I have to consider my own imagining. I don't fully believe anything is MINE per-say, as everything in my mind is the result of outside information, passing through the hall of mirrors, so to speak. They're my mirrors, but they're a blank slate without my own history for reference.
The reason for this blog post is, well... I need a break from the limited music selection I have offline. Normally, I would be listening to Tom Waits, No More Kings, Jamiroquai, Regina Spektor, Refused, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, and/or The (international) Noise Conspiracy. This comes along with booting up my computer with my Linux-based operating system "Ubuntu". The problem with Ubuntu is that I'm hooked on Spotify and intimidated by the beta version for Linux as it stands, owing to my own neophyte status with command prompts.
My favorite program, among many neat program that come with Ubuntu, is LibreOffice. I have been compiling a literary train wreak of madly loving thoughts which I aspire to shape into a publishable work of print. The inspiration for this comes from the inherent prettiness of Ubuntu's graphic user interface. The default font is called "Liberation", and it looks just-right when the alignment is set to "Justified". I'm contained by the walls of a nifty apartment at the end of civilization... How could I resist the urge to pretend I'm a writer?
I doubt I'll ever be a Steven King or John Grisham, but I could see myself becoming a sort of cheery version of PKD(Philip K Dick) over time. Having no one but myself for a critic is both liberating and eternally frustrating... I am free to go mad with my words, but constantly pressing "backspace" two times for every letter I type... This blog is the most "stream of consciousness" I've done in a while, and even now I am contemplating just not sending it out... Good thing I'm nothing if not stubborn, and I told myself to pinch off some brain nuggets for the interweb this afternoon.
Information wants to be free... and this book is begging me to finish it. Enjoying Spotify as I am is yielding a fair amount of guilt for neglecting my project, and yet... it seems a reasonable break. I do want to run a press when I'm through with this, but I'm not going to bother shopping it around. I'll publish it as a .pdf with a suggested donation, and/or find an indy press that does small order, sustainably-sourced printings(hemp paper, soy ink... I'm not comfortable producing any more books from trees. It's just inferior in every sense.)
My best wish for the finished result is that I will be flooded with letters from distressed english teachers. That will be my personal hallmark of success; an audience of people who think they know better. ( lol @ Vonnegut ;) )
So what the fuck am I rambling about today, here and now? *shrugs* I'unno... Nothin'... What does it matter? if it's not fun to read, well... sorry you bothered. This isn't my book, and I'm not begging for you to look... but since you're here... how about I put a bit more effort into it... Would you like a poem(or "pome" *chortle*)?
There once was a boy from maine,
who thought you all did look the same.
He wanted to say,
in his own special(-ed.) way,
That maine in no way can make rhyme with "lame"!
Like it? That's an "ABCCB"-style limerick... Did I blow your AABBA mind? ...I'm not impressed... and this is getting rather silly.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
...I'm NOT sorry!
Let's see... How about some sound advice?
Be sure to catch a sunbeam every day you can... and keep a happy picture on hand at all times... or a bag of weed... unless you're a grower, in which case, throw that plant in a juicer and let the cannabinoids massage your grown up brain into second-childhood... Now that I think of it... "marijuana" is a smoke-able "drug"... Is it even against the law to have raw juice from the plant(with cranberry-orange, perhaps)?
I'm off to google search... That's all for today. *hugs* I love you people. Thanks for putting up with my shit :)
Friday, April 27, 2012
They way toward a new system starts with changing yourself, then extending to your community... Boycott anything that isn't local or organic, as much as you can, more and more.
If you know better than to buy recycled paper towels because they still require deforestation, still produce carbon, still require transportation via fossil fuels... if you know this and opt instead to just wash with cloth, then you've taken a step in the right direction. Another step is composting. Another step is gardening. Another step is never buying ANYTHING in a disposable container(cook with whole foods, make your own beverages, carry them in glass jars).
Revolutions don't happen all at once, but they can spread very quickly. Revolutions are nothing more than mass changes in public vision... The way to spread the revolution we need is to question everything... Question the idea that "voting with dollars" is the way to save us while the reality exists that every dollar passed along is still, in part, contributing to the military industrial complex... Question the idea that ANYTHING you can buy on a shelf is truly "green" when it's still being manufactured from and distributed by petroleum... Question the idea that this country promotes "liberty and justice for all" when it's mandating by law that children must spend 30 hours a week for 12 years of their life to repeat those words... There isn't much around us which isn't completely mad. Face it all. Break the illusions.
It's not about feeling evil or helpless to change, although society conditions us to react that way when we discover we're doing something wrong. If you feel BAD when presented with new information, realize that it's an opportunity to feel SO MUCH BETTER. Don't feel BAD because Pepsi is poisoning you and raping your mother earth, feel GOOD that you're now aware so you can save yourself and your land base from any further abuse caused on YOUR behalf. (Note: I drank more than a 2 liter of Mountain Dew on average, every single day up through high school and gave it up in just one day with no regret whatsoever... I also lost 80 pounds in just a few months straight away, but that's not really the point, I just feel much better all around since educating myself.)
Too many times when I point out flaws in the system, I'm met with vicious defense. People don't like to hear that their iPhones are made by slave labor because they don't want to give them up. The only options, internally, are to admit they're doing something wrong or pretend to be ignorant... so they pretend to be ignorant. They often point out that I'm using a computer, which is not a fact that I am oblivious to. I know this computer is wrong. I know it's made with toxic elements and assembled by miserable humans subsisting on a low standard of living while being poisoned by there immediate environment. I know it's wrong... but I can USE it to do something good which I would otherwise be incapable of... I can USE this awful computer to reach people all around the world and share ideas. I can USE this awful computer to educate myself on how to cook or build or grow or identify ANYTHING. I can have conversations with people that I would normally never have the opportunity to speak with and grow ideas I otherwise never would have heard of... You don't have that same benefit with a smart phone... You can access the internet, but you can't communicate effectively in a philosophical/ideological sense when you're typing with your thumbs. (lol omg wtf...) When you put internet media in your pocket it goes from connecting you to a vast world to simply shutting you out of your waking reality, preventing you from meeting people while you stare at your smart rectangle, preventing you from focusing your attention on what you're doing or who you're facing in order to text some shit that really doesn't matter to someone you're probably going to see soon anyway(and then ignore while you fiddle with your rectangle.) Anyway, I'm off on a rant. Ignore this last paragraph or two... or think about it, whatever you like.
If you know better than to buy recycled paper towels because they still require deforestation, still produce carbon, still require transportation via fossil fuels... if you know this and opt instead to just wash with cloth, then you've taken a step in the right direction. Another step is composting. Another step is gardening. Another step is never buying ANYTHING in a disposable container(cook with whole foods, make your own beverages, carry them in glass jars).
Revolutions don't happen all at once, but they can spread very quickly. Revolutions are nothing more than mass changes in public vision... The way to spread the revolution we need is to question everything... Question the idea that "voting with dollars" is the way to save us while the reality exists that every dollar passed along is still, in part, contributing to the military industrial complex... Question the idea that ANYTHING you can buy on a shelf is truly "green" when it's still being manufactured from and distributed by petroleum... Question the idea that this country promotes "liberty and justice for all" when it's mandating by law that children must spend 30 hours a week for 12 years of their life to repeat those words... There isn't much around us which isn't completely mad. Face it all. Break the illusions.
It's not about feeling evil or helpless to change, although society conditions us to react that way when we discover we're doing something wrong. If you feel BAD when presented with new information, realize that it's an opportunity to feel SO MUCH BETTER. Don't feel BAD because Pepsi is poisoning you and raping your mother earth, feel GOOD that you're now aware so you can save yourself and your land base from any further abuse caused on YOUR behalf. (Note: I drank more than a 2 liter of Mountain Dew on average, every single day up through high school and gave it up in just one day with no regret whatsoever... I also lost 80 pounds in just a few months straight away, but that's not really the point, I just feel much better all around since educating myself.)
Too many times when I point out flaws in the system, I'm met with vicious defense. People don't like to hear that their iPhones are made by slave labor because they don't want to give them up. The only options, internally, are to admit they're doing something wrong or pretend to be ignorant... so they pretend to be ignorant. They often point out that I'm using a computer, which is not a fact that I am oblivious to. I know this computer is wrong. I know it's made with toxic elements and assembled by miserable humans subsisting on a low standard of living while being poisoned by there immediate environment. I know it's wrong... but I can USE it to do something good which I would otherwise be incapable of... I can USE this awful computer to reach people all around the world and share ideas. I can USE this awful computer to educate myself on how to cook or build or grow or identify ANYTHING. I can have conversations with people that I would normally never have the opportunity to speak with and grow ideas I otherwise never would have heard of... You don't have that same benefit with a smart phone... You can access the internet, but you can't communicate effectively in a philosophical/ideological sense when you're typing with your thumbs. (lol omg wtf...) When you put internet media in your pocket it goes from connecting you to a vast world to simply shutting you out of your waking reality, preventing you from meeting people while you stare at your smart rectangle, preventing you from focusing your attention on what you're doing or who you're facing in order to text some shit that really doesn't matter to someone you're probably going to see soon anyway(and then ignore while you fiddle with your rectangle.) Anyway, I'm off on a rant. Ignore this last paragraph or two... or think about it, whatever you like.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Thom Hartman "Libertarian Paradise Complete w/mad cow disease"
I've been so completely offended by this blanket response draped over a narrow frame that I feel the need to rant.
First off, there's a much bigger issue which makes the entire point of this video completely moot. The thing of it is that JUST because a single cow was discovered with the disease does NOT by any means indicate there's "nothing to worry about". Cows don't just GET Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis("mad cow disease", which translates to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans) by any sort of random chance. The fact is that cows develop BSE when they're fed reconstituted animal by-product.
Cows are ruminant animals, which means they're meant to eat grass, which is considered too inefficient to supply the demands of American beef consumption... SO, rather than educating the public about the health benefits of limited meat consumption, we have government subsidized industrial meat processing plants which feed their cows government subsidized (genetically modified) corn and soy... which is pretty bad on its own, but because it's even MORE profitable to throw all the leftover bits from the slaughtering process into the GMO grains, that's what happens. This makes a feed that makes the cows get very fat, very quickly AND unfortunately causes them to develop BSE, which is the inevitable result of cannibalism.
BSE/CJD are caused by prions. Prions are nasty little bacteria that latch onto everything they touch and, as of yet have no easy way of being killed short of burning them at temperatures hot enough to MELT STEEL (this means anything cooked on a surface that once cooked tainted meat can potentially pass the disease right along... so going vegetarian doesn't help worth a damn unless every single knife/pan/dish used has never touched industrial meat). Because of this, whenever prions are discovered in a lab, all the equipment must be destroyed. Because of THAT, prions aren't typically tested for in labs. Because of THAT, many of the people who contract CJD are routinely diagnosed as having Alzheimer's Disease because the symptoms are a similar dementia.
...but wouldn't that be suspicious in young people? Well... the kicker about CJD is that it takes between 20-40 YEARS to show symptoms, so it's highly unlikely that a child will ever die from it. The disease takes a comparatively long time to display symptoms in cows as well, and by the time they show, it's well past too late to do anything. Every other member of the herd has derived its food from the same source, and will be sold as food long before they have the opportunity to display symptoms.
So that's just the BACKGROUND to why Thom's video here is an insult. If you want to know where I'm getting all this information, try reading "International Meat Crisis" by Harvestime Books.
Now... as for Thom's libertarian-bashing. It's EXACTLY as senseless and unproductive as the same old ad nauseum democrat/republican fuckery, without being so obviously under reign by the same hands... The thing that really sucks about libertarian/socialist nay-saying is that BOTH sides have viable solutions AND considerable blind spots.
Socialists have the principles of altruism, equality and justice which are undeniably essential to a thriving society. However, when combined with imperialist empires, these programs with noble visions invariably become corrupted by parasitical management. Regulations become too stringent, and bureaucracy thwarts all efforts toward progress while the leaders engage in cronyism and bribery.
Libertarians have the principles of individual sovereignty, personal responsibility and non-violation which are undeniably essential to a FREE society. However, when combined with privately regulated forms of currency, these ideals are utterly worthless. Materialism and greed have no bounds, and people are permitted to screw each other endlessly in pursuit of financial one-ups over the next person.
So... is the discovery of a single cow with BSE just-cause for hailing the importance of government monitoring? Absolutely not. The fact they release this information with the final note being "there's nothing to worry about" PROVES that they're continuing to keep people in the dark! Does this mean there should be NO regulation whatsoever? Of course not! ...but look at the regulations for certified Fair Trade or Cruelty-Free products, which are both voluntary market systems AND much more stringent than anything under the FDA or USDA.
The market IS capable of regulating itself to a large degree, but it requires information to be widely disseminated and readily available... As it stands, information IS still readily available(CISPA hasn't passed yet... and by the way, such efforts to regulate the internet ARE inherently socialist in nature), but information is NOT widely disseminated. This information is not reaching millions of people, 24/7 on every channel/billboard/radio transmission/print publication. Information like this has to be sought for. Oprah tried to disseminate SOME of this information during the Mad Cow scare in the 1990s, and the government-subsidized beef industry sued the pants off her! It's imperialist government regulation which has CAUSED mad cow disease to exist in the first place!
If information similar to what I'm presenting in this blog WERE permitted to reach millions of people, we wouldn't HAVE american tax dollars subsidizing GMO crops, or rBGH-laden milk, or CJD-causing beef... We might have products available which WOULD be able to advertize what they feed their cattle or what they don't include in their ingredients, which WOULD cause their sales to increase and put the poison stuff out of business... But this is not the case. We have (socialist)regulations in place which prevent free speech in the press and airwaves... and so we continue to have (socialist)subsidies going directly to Monsanto, and Big Oil, and Big Pharma...
I LOVE socialism when it means keeping everyone fed, sheltered, educated, cared for.... but it's absolutely the worst thing ever when people are FORCED to accept food they don't want, shelter they don't appreciate, education they don't need, health care that's not first rate... When taxes are collected at the barrel of a gun and dispersed at the will of private interests(who have effectively bought themselves a sort of libertarian paradise exclusive to them), then you have, well... the US as it stands while I type this.
What if we stopped going along with manifest destiny? What if each state operated as a sovereign nation? What if we all agreed to disagree, as it were, and just let there be a place for everything? What if states could choose to legalize or prohibit whatever they liked, and people who weren't content with it were free to move? What if taxes weren't inevitable, but voluntary and non-coercive? What if we allowed individuals to do what they like, so long as they aren't violating anyone else? What if we didn't automatically violate every person born by tagging them with a social security number and taxing them to live from the day they're born? What if we viewed violations of nature in the same light as violations of humans? Would we let corporations continue to rape the environment to protect their right to make a profit?(fuck no)
To Thom, I would like to say this: A "Libertarian Paradise" is a socialist paradise as well, because there isn't one or the other who isn't still a person. That which bends does not break, and if libertarians and socialists can just bend together, we might just be able to figure out what it means to be human.
I've been so completely offended by this blanket response draped over a narrow frame that I feel the need to rant.
First off, there's a much bigger issue which makes the entire point of this video completely moot. The thing of it is that JUST because a single cow was discovered with the disease does NOT by any means indicate there's "nothing to worry about". Cows don't just GET Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis("mad cow disease", which translates to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans) by any sort of random chance. The fact is that cows develop BSE when they're fed reconstituted animal by-product.
Cows are ruminant animals, which means they're meant to eat grass, which is considered too inefficient to supply the demands of American beef consumption... SO, rather than educating the public about the health benefits of limited meat consumption, we have government subsidized industrial meat processing plants which feed their cows government subsidized (genetically modified) corn and soy... which is pretty bad on its own, but because it's even MORE profitable to throw all the leftover bits from the slaughtering process into the GMO grains, that's what happens. This makes a feed that makes the cows get very fat, very quickly AND unfortunately causes them to develop BSE, which is the inevitable result of cannibalism.
BSE/CJD are caused by prions. Prions are nasty little bacteria that latch onto everything they touch and, as of yet have no easy way of being killed short of burning them at temperatures hot enough to MELT STEEL (this means anything cooked on a surface that once cooked tainted meat can potentially pass the disease right along... so going vegetarian doesn't help worth a damn unless every single knife/pan/dish used has never touched industrial meat). Because of this, whenever prions are discovered in a lab, all the equipment must be destroyed. Because of THAT, prions aren't typically tested for in labs. Because of THAT, many of the people who contract CJD are routinely diagnosed as having Alzheimer's Disease because the symptoms are a similar dementia.
...but wouldn't that be suspicious in young people? Well... the kicker about CJD is that it takes between 20-40 YEARS to show symptoms, so it's highly unlikely that a child will ever die from it. The disease takes a comparatively long time to display symptoms in cows as well, and by the time they show, it's well past too late to do anything. Every other member of the herd has derived its food from the same source, and will be sold as food long before they have the opportunity to display symptoms.
So that's just the BACKGROUND to why Thom's video here is an insult. If you want to know where I'm getting all this information, try reading "International Meat Crisis" by Harvestime Books.
Now... as for Thom's libertarian-bashing. It's EXACTLY as senseless and unproductive as the same old ad nauseum democrat/republican fuckery, without being so obviously under reign by the same hands... The thing that really sucks about libertarian/socialist nay-saying is that BOTH sides have viable solutions AND considerable blind spots.
Socialists have the principles of altruism, equality and justice which are undeniably essential to a thriving society. However, when combined with imperialist empires, these programs with noble visions invariably become corrupted by parasitical management. Regulations become too stringent, and bureaucracy thwarts all efforts toward progress while the leaders engage in cronyism and bribery.
Libertarians have the principles of individual sovereignty, personal responsibility and non-violation which are undeniably essential to a FREE society. However, when combined with privately regulated forms of currency, these ideals are utterly worthless. Materialism and greed have no bounds, and people are permitted to screw each other endlessly in pursuit of financial one-ups over the next person.
So... is the discovery of a single cow with BSE just-cause for hailing the importance of government monitoring? Absolutely not. The fact they release this information with the final note being "there's nothing to worry about" PROVES that they're continuing to keep people in the dark! Does this mean there should be NO regulation whatsoever? Of course not! ...but look at the regulations for certified Fair Trade or Cruelty-Free products, which are both voluntary market systems AND much more stringent than anything under the FDA or USDA.
The market IS capable of regulating itself to a large degree, but it requires information to be widely disseminated and readily available... As it stands, information IS still readily available(CISPA hasn't passed yet... and by the way, such efforts to regulate the internet ARE inherently socialist in nature), but information is NOT widely disseminated. This information is not reaching millions of people, 24/7 on every channel/billboard/radio transmission/print publication. Information like this has to be sought for. Oprah tried to disseminate SOME of this information during the Mad Cow scare in the 1990s, and the government-subsidized beef industry sued the pants off her! It's imperialist government regulation which has CAUSED mad cow disease to exist in the first place!
If information similar to what I'm presenting in this blog WERE permitted to reach millions of people, we wouldn't HAVE american tax dollars subsidizing GMO crops, or rBGH-laden milk, or CJD-causing beef... We might have products available which WOULD be able to advertize what they feed their cattle or what they don't include in their ingredients, which WOULD cause their sales to increase and put the poison stuff out of business... But this is not the case. We have (socialist)regulations in place which prevent free speech in the press and airwaves... and so we continue to have (socialist)subsidies going directly to Monsanto, and Big Oil, and Big Pharma...
I LOVE socialism when it means keeping everyone fed, sheltered, educated, cared for.... but it's absolutely the worst thing ever when people are FORCED to accept food they don't want, shelter they don't appreciate, education they don't need, health care that's not first rate... When taxes are collected at the barrel of a gun and dispersed at the will of private interests(who have effectively bought themselves a sort of libertarian paradise exclusive to them), then you have, well... the US as it stands while I type this.
What if we stopped going along with manifest destiny? What if each state operated as a sovereign nation? What if we all agreed to disagree, as it were, and just let there be a place for everything? What if states could choose to legalize or prohibit whatever they liked, and people who weren't content with it were free to move? What if taxes weren't inevitable, but voluntary and non-coercive? What if we allowed individuals to do what they like, so long as they aren't violating anyone else? What if we didn't automatically violate every person born by tagging them with a social security number and taxing them to live from the day they're born? What if we viewed violations of nature in the same light as violations of humans? Would we let corporations continue to rape the environment to protect their right to make a profit?(fuck no)
To Thom, I would like to say this: A "Libertarian Paradise" is a socialist paradise as well, because there isn't one or the other who isn't still a person. That which bends does not break, and if libertarians and socialists can just bend together, we might just be able to figure out what it means to be human.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Re-Imagining the World in which We Live: Part 1: Indentifying Some Problems
I'm a bit lost as to where I should start on this(or any) subject... dyslexia is a marvelous curse.
I feel it might be necessary to reflect on briefly on some points where culture has gone wrong. It seems quite obvious to me that the very concept of personality in this culture has been reduced to which "savvy" consumer choices we make. We're divided by such petty things as whether or not our clothes come from Slave-Mart or our "local" globalist shopping maul... and within the maul, people are further divided by whether they shop at, for example, Hot Topic or the Gap(both owned by the same company)... Wherever you buy clothes you always think of them as coming from that store... Never-mind that there are breathing people, sewing these things together, working 80 hour weeks while practically starving.
We're inundated with technology that serves nothing but an endless lust for entertainment. We don't think about how the minerals for the circuitry were mined by children at gunpoint... or how the person manufacturing your iphone probably committed suicide because of dehumanizing labor conditions.
As Americans, we're all but completely removed from this planet in regards to food. They say: America runs on Dunkin... well Dunkin runs on slave labor.
"Oh, but I only get espresso beverages from them, and their espresso is Fair Trade certified"
Well, pay attention. Many Dunkin locations take advantage of immigrants here on work visas by either shorting them on payroll hours, or avoid paying them any overtime by running them 40 hours a week at two different locations. Slavery. In THIS country. It happens much more than anybody talks about.
Do you eat meat? Do you know that at least 80% of meat in this country comes from massive industrial "farms"? They bus in human beings from Mexico(coyote-style, not through work-visas) where they work in slaughterhouses with extremely high rates of on-job dismemberment and death... Check out Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser... or at least watch the movie if books aren't your thing.
By the way, have you bought anything "Made in America" lately? If it's not a gun or bullet, it's more than likely made by people in prison. Here is another plug for Schlosser. Check out "The Prison-Industrial Complex" ( http://www.ems.ucsb.edu/people/rightmire/ling12/Eric_Schlosser_Ling12_S10.pdf )
Have you heard that there's an environmental crisis? No, not global warming... Pollution. You can't reduce environmentalism to Co2 emissions. You personally emit Co2 every time you exhale. Plant's require Co2 in order to grow. Co2 emissions are not the cause of global warming, and they're not even hardly the worst thing being released into the stratosphere. Pollution is the problem. Co2 is within the circle of life, it's not the factor we have to worry about.
What's going on with our air? Well... Here's an interesting looking article: http://www.nutramed.com/environment/carschemicals.htm ....
"A short list of the likely pathogens in car exhaust:
Water: All water is One water. Would you drink water that had been sitting with batteries in it? Would you bathe in a tub with discarded cell phones? Would you boil plastic bottles in a soup for your kin? Toxic waste isn't just an inevitable result of using coal and nuclear energy(which is the entire power grid of society). It's also every phone and battery that gets buried in a landfill, every big and little oil spill, and speck of plastic in existence...
Check this out: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/homepage/1886
how about this?: http://www.hometownhazards.com/2007/08/cancer-cluster-confirmed-near-coal.html
This is interesting as well: http://brainz.org/10-most-toxic-places-earth/
People are dropping like flies to AIDS and cancer, and we're supposed to believe the problem is too many people... that there's an "overpopulation crisis"... There isn't. http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
The problem is not that every person eats, the problem is that not every person grows food. The problem is not that every person shits, the problem is that not every person has the slightest idea where shit goes... and how could we?
Obviously we HAVE to continue working at jobs we dislike for less than we consider fair pay... Obviously we don't have the right to simply live on a piece of land and be self-sustainable... We NEED money, obviously. Obviously we NEED to arrest people for what they choose to put in their own bodies. We obviously need to have police in every town to shoo away the smelly poor people. We obviously need these police to use violent force against people who are causing no physical harm to anyone else. Obviously. Obviously. Obviously... Obviously you can't cash a person's work check without their thumb print and verified address and signature. Obviously you don't deserve a place to sleep if you don't have a job. Obviously you need a stable address in order to work. Obviously you need a car because obviously there are no residences in walking distance to your employer, and obviously they shouldn't have to lift a finger to transport their workers to the job site. And obviously, since you drive a car, you obviously need to pay all the associated fees and taxes, and make sure your permission slip to drive is up to date. Obviously, you must carry documentation to confirm your identity at all times. Obviously you can't work without a social security number because obviously the government has the right to unlawfully tax your living wages. Obviously, you need to worry about your credit score because obviously if you don't have the right imaginary number on the right computer screen you obviously can't rent a vehicle or living space. Obviously you can't smoke in your own residence, because obviously rental companies are becoming by and large the only means of getting an apartment and obviously they'll evict you for doing something legal in space you pay to live in. Obviously, we need fences between us and every tree because obviously someone owns that land and obviously if you decide to climb that tree you're obviously going to fall off and obviously going to sue and win against the obvious owner of the land...
If you think you have the slightest idea of how insane this culture is, you're hardly even scratching the surface...
I feel it might be necessary to reflect on briefly on some points where culture has gone wrong. It seems quite obvious to me that the very concept of personality in this culture has been reduced to which "savvy" consumer choices we make. We're divided by such petty things as whether or not our clothes come from Slave-Mart or our "local" globalist shopping maul... and within the maul, people are further divided by whether they shop at, for example, Hot Topic or the Gap(both owned by the same company)... Wherever you buy clothes you always think of them as coming from that store... Never-mind that there are breathing people, sewing these things together, working 80 hour weeks while practically starving.
We're inundated with technology that serves nothing but an endless lust for entertainment. We don't think about how the minerals for the circuitry were mined by children at gunpoint... or how the person manufacturing your iphone probably committed suicide because of dehumanizing labor conditions.
As Americans, we're all but completely removed from this planet in regards to food. They say: America runs on Dunkin... well Dunkin runs on slave labor.
"Oh, but I only get espresso beverages from them, and their espresso is Fair Trade certified"
Well, pay attention. Many Dunkin locations take advantage of immigrants here on work visas by either shorting them on payroll hours, or avoid paying them any overtime by running them 40 hours a week at two different locations. Slavery. In THIS country. It happens much more than anybody talks about.
Do you eat meat? Do you know that at least 80% of meat in this country comes from massive industrial "farms"? They bus in human beings from Mexico(coyote-style, not through work-visas) where they work in slaughterhouses with extremely high rates of on-job dismemberment and death... Check out Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser... or at least watch the movie if books aren't your thing.
By the way, have you bought anything "Made in America" lately? If it's not a gun or bullet, it's more than likely made by people in prison. Here is another plug for Schlosser. Check out "The Prison-Industrial Complex" ( http://www.ems.ucsb.edu/people/rightmire/ling12/Eric_Schlosser_Ling12_S10.pdf )
Have you heard that there's an environmental crisis? No, not global warming... Pollution. You can't reduce environmentalism to Co2 emissions. You personally emit Co2 every time you exhale. Plant's require Co2 in order to grow. Co2 emissions are not the cause of global warming, and they're not even hardly the worst thing being released into the stratosphere. Pollution is the problem. Co2 is within the circle of life, it's not the factor we have to worry about.
What's going on with our air? Well... Here's an interesting looking article: http://www.nutramed.com/environment/carschemicals.htm ....
"A short list of the likely pathogens in car exhaust:
- Carbon Monoxide
- Nitrogen dioxide
- Sulphur dioxide
- Suspended particles, PM-10 particles less than 10 microns in size.
- Benzene
- Formaldehyde
- Polycyclic hydrocarbons"
Water: All water is One water. Would you drink water that had been sitting with batteries in it? Would you bathe in a tub with discarded cell phones? Would you boil plastic bottles in a soup for your kin? Toxic waste isn't just an inevitable result of using coal and nuclear energy(which is the entire power grid of society). It's also every phone and battery that gets buried in a landfill, every big and little oil spill, and speck of plastic in existence...
Check this out: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/articles/homepage/1886
how about this?: http://www.hometownhazards.com/2007/08/cancer-cluster-confirmed-near-coal.html
This is interesting as well: http://brainz.org/10-most-toxic-places-earth/
People are dropping like flies to AIDS and cancer, and we're supposed to believe the problem is too many people... that there's an "overpopulation crisis"... There isn't. http://overpopulationisamyth.com/
The problem is not that every person eats, the problem is that not every person grows food. The problem is not that every person shits, the problem is that not every person has the slightest idea where shit goes... and how could we?
Obviously we HAVE to continue working at jobs we dislike for less than we consider fair pay... Obviously we don't have the right to simply live on a piece of land and be self-sustainable... We NEED money, obviously. Obviously we NEED to arrest people for what they choose to put in their own bodies. We obviously need to have police in every town to shoo away the smelly poor people. We obviously need these police to use violent force against people who are causing no physical harm to anyone else. Obviously. Obviously. Obviously... Obviously you can't cash a person's work check without their thumb print and verified address and signature. Obviously you don't deserve a place to sleep if you don't have a job. Obviously you need a stable address in order to work. Obviously you need a car because obviously there are no residences in walking distance to your employer, and obviously they shouldn't have to lift a finger to transport their workers to the job site. And obviously, since you drive a car, you obviously need to pay all the associated fees and taxes, and make sure your permission slip to drive is up to date. Obviously, you must carry documentation to confirm your identity at all times. Obviously you can't work without a social security number because obviously the government has the right to unlawfully tax your living wages. Obviously, you need to worry about your credit score because obviously if you don't have the right imaginary number on the right computer screen you obviously can't rent a vehicle or living space. Obviously you can't smoke in your own residence, because obviously rental companies are becoming by and large the only means of getting an apartment and obviously they'll evict you for doing something legal in space you pay to live in. Obviously, we need fences between us and every tree because obviously someone owns that land and obviously if you decide to climb that tree you're obviously going to fall off and obviously going to sue and win against the obvious owner of the land...
If you think you have the slightest idea of how insane this culture is, you're hardly even scratching the surface...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The War on Reason
I would like to ask the reader a question: What are the biggest problems our society faces today?
Worldwide, the ones that come to mind for me are: Environmental collapse(universal destruction of land, air and water), Economic repression(unemployment, poverty, starvation and homelessness), and Political tyranny(wars over resources, suppression of independent views in mass media, incarceration of nonviolent members of society). These are HUGE, and I'd like to give my thoughts on them in a later blog. For now I'll stick to the country I'm stuck in.
Specific to America, we have the very unique situation of having the most atrocious health that grossly misappropriated tax money can buy. Obesity in this country is out of control, largely due to tax money being used to subsidize Monsanto's genetically modified corn and soy (I've heard parts of Europe have banned GM crops, indicating again that USA is "number one" in ignoring what the hell is going on), making it the only type of food affordable for them asses. Obesity kills in the same neighborhood as tobacco and nothing useful is getting done about either of these extremely preventable causes. Diabetes numbers are rising from poor diet. Cancer, heart disease... poor diet.
Alzheimer's is on the rise: "From 2000-2006, Alzheimer's disease deaths increased 46.1 percent, while other selected causes of death decreased."(from http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_facts_figures.asp) which causes me to recall the book International Meat Crisis(link to full PDF) where I first read "there is clear evidence that many people, dying in America and elsewhere from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are being misdiagnosed as the victims of Alzheimer’s"... I'm going to re-paste this point in hopes it will cause someone to get it who otherwise may have skimmed past:
"there is clear evidence that many people, dying in America and elsewhere from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are being misdiagnosed as the victims of Alzheimer’s" and then..."From 2000-2006, Alzheimer's disease deaths increased 46.1 percent" ...You just think about that.
Your tax money also subsidizes the meat industry whose practices(of feeding cows blended with GM corn to other cows)are directly responsible for CJD(or "Mad-Cow"disease). Your tax money also subsidizes bovine growth hormone(BGH, another Monsanto concoction banned in Europe) that causes blood, puss and antibiotics to enter the milk supply, and has been linked to cancer (http://www.ejnet.org/bgh/nogood.html). Every time you punch the clock at your job, a percentage of your money is being deducted for the sake of poisoning you, and charging you further for it at the register later on and recycling the sales tax into the same mess.
Air pollution is a big concern for densely populated areas. I realize how this must sound to many people, but the fact is this is very much because of the clear corporate conspiracy to buy up and shut down many efficient forms of public transportation. There wouldn't be millions of cars sucking up oil and choking us to death if automotive companies were footing the bill for all our paved roads.
We STILL have the only exclusively for-profit insurance system I've heard of, which to me indicates that the policy makers have been convinced the term "preventative care" means preventing people from receiving care. If our government were acting in favor of public interest, we would have something loosely resembling these countries.(The focus of the article in that link is more on the healthy choices people in those countries make, but don't forget the point is that they are choices not promoted or readily affordable in most of the US... Who's eating range-fed steaks here? Who can afford fish that isn't heavily processed and mercury-dense on a daily basis? Has the US government ever once attempted to make public fitness centers?)
I'm going to shift gears and talk about something that people nationally spend BILLIONS of dollars on annually and is completely untaxed. The widely used term is "marijuana", but more accurately it's called cannabis, have you heard of it? This is a plant which kills 100% less people than those who choose its legal counterpart: tobacco. This plant also kills 100% less people than its medical counterpart: prescription drugs. Cannabis can be used therapeutically to treat... pretty much anything painful or consistently bothersome(barring perhaps right-wing conservatives... or state-supporting liberals, ZING!). I've even heard accounts from individuals with multiple sclerosis and epilepsy who claim it eliminates seizures, but others claim it triggers them(for what my opinion is worth: I would wager the ones who claim it's a trigger would have experienced that, not because of pot, but because the added paranoia of getting caught... which is fallaciously attributed to cannabis, but is only caused by the moronic laws against it). The side effects of cannabis vary, but generally range from hunger and sleepiness to the more dangerous spectrum of critical thinking and nonrecognition of tyrannical authority(which seems to come from some misguided idea that people are equal to one another... anyone who ever claims to believe that is probably high. Report all such encounters to King George, I mean... the Dept. of Homeland Security. My bad.) The danger of these side effects is that if they were to spread too wide we would have a shared, sustainable planet inhabited by contented loafers with no one in charge to tell them what they want every waking second.
*deep breath* Sigh...
Okay, somewhere in that little rant I mentioned prescription drugs. Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. It is pure idiocy to think that prohibiting anything will make it less of a danger. Look how long alcohol was prohibited. 1920-1933, thirteen years for our great-grandparents to figure out it was better to let people have their vice than to fight it and deal with rising murder and robbery. Instead we find ourselves in the midst of Reagan's "war on drugs" which has made USA the number 1 country as far as number of people jailed. Has anyone noticed that people on average have been getting progressively more insane? And I'm not talking like in a fun, mostly reasonable way like I consider myself to be... I mean like VIOLENT. Well here's an idea... MAYBE if we let go of everyone in jail for nonviolent offenses we wouldn't have so many broken homes and incapable parents... maybe if we stopped paying cops to try busting innocent people they could actually focus on serving and protecting.
...I can't do this anymore right now. Later people.
Worldwide, the ones that come to mind for me are: Environmental collapse(universal destruction of land, air and water), Economic repression(unemployment, poverty, starvation and homelessness), and Political tyranny(wars over resources, suppression of independent views in mass media, incarceration of nonviolent members of society). These are HUGE, and I'd like to give my thoughts on them in a later blog. For now I'll stick to the country I'm stuck in.
Specific to America, we have the very unique situation of having the most atrocious health that grossly misappropriated tax money can buy. Obesity in this country is out of control, largely due to tax money being used to subsidize Monsanto's genetically modified corn and soy (I've heard parts of Europe have banned GM crops, indicating again that USA is "number one" in ignoring what the hell is going on), making it the only type of food affordable for them asses. Obesity kills in the same neighborhood as tobacco and nothing useful is getting done about either of these extremely preventable causes. Diabetes numbers are rising from poor diet. Cancer, heart disease... poor diet.
Alzheimer's is on the rise: "From 2000-2006, Alzheimer's disease deaths increased 46.1 percent, while other selected causes of death decreased."(from http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_facts_figures.asp) which causes me to recall the book International Meat Crisis(link to full PDF) where I first read "there is clear evidence that many people, dying in America and elsewhere from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are being misdiagnosed as the victims of Alzheimer’s"... I'm going to re-paste this point in hopes it will cause someone to get it who otherwise may have skimmed past:
"there is clear evidence that many people, dying in America and elsewhere from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are being misdiagnosed as the victims of Alzheimer’s" and then..."From 2000-2006, Alzheimer's disease deaths increased 46.1 percent" ...You just think about that.
Your tax money also subsidizes the meat industry whose practices(of feeding cows blended with GM corn to other cows)are directly responsible for CJD(or "Mad-Cow"disease). Your tax money also subsidizes bovine growth hormone(BGH, another Monsanto concoction banned in Europe) that causes blood, puss and antibiotics to enter the milk supply, and has been linked to cancer (http://www.ejnet.org/bgh/nogood.html). Every time you punch the clock at your job, a percentage of your money is being deducted for the sake of poisoning you, and charging you further for it at the register later on and recycling the sales tax into the same mess.
Air pollution is a big concern for densely populated areas. I realize how this must sound to many people, but the fact is this is very much because of the clear corporate conspiracy to buy up and shut down many efficient forms of public transportation. There wouldn't be millions of cars sucking up oil and choking us to death if automotive companies were footing the bill for all our paved roads.
We STILL have the only exclusively for-profit insurance system I've heard of, which to me indicates that the policy makers have been convinced the term "preventative care" means preventing people from receiving care. If our government were acting in favor of public interest, we would have something loosely resembling these countries.(The focus of the article in that link is more on the healthy choices people in those countries make, but don't forget the point is that they are choices not promoted or readily affordable in most of the US... Who's eating range-fed steaks here? Who can afford fish that isn't heavily processed and mercury-dense on a daily basis? Has the US government ever once attempted to make public fitness centers?)
I'm going to shift gears and talk about something that people nationally spend BILLIONS of dollars on annually and is completely untaxed. The widely used term is "marijuana", but more accurately it's called cannabis, have you heard of it? This is a plant which kills 100% less people than those who choose its legal counterpart: tobacco. This plant also kills 100% less people than its medical counterpart: prescription drugs. Cannabis can be used therapeutically to treat... pretty much anything painful or consistently bothersome(barring perhaps right-wing conservatives... or state-supporting liberals, ZING!). I've even heard accounts from individuals with multiple sclerosis and epilepsy who claim it eliminates seizures, but others claim it triggers them(for what my opinion is worth: I would wager the ones who claim it's a trigger would have experienced that, not because of pot, but because the added paranoia of getting caught... which is fallaciously attributed to cannabis, but is only caused by the moronic laws against it). The side effects of cannabis vary, but generally range from hunger and sleepiness to the more dangerous spectrum of critical thinking and nonrecognition of tyrannical authority(which seems to come from some misguided idea that people are equal to one another... anyone who ever claims to believe that is probably high. Report all such encounters to King George, I mean... the Dept. of Homeland Security. My bad.) The danger of these side effects is that if they were to spread too wide we would have a shared, sustainable planet inhabited by contented loafers with no one in charge to tell them what they want every waking second.
*deep breath* Sigh...
Okay, somewhere in that little rant I mentioned prescription drugs. Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs. It is pure idiocy to think that prohibiting anything will make it less of a danger. Look how long alcohol was prohibited. 1920-1933, thirteen years for our great-grandparents to figure out it was better to let people have their vice than to fight it and deal with rising murder and robbery. Instead we find ourselves in the midst of Reagan's "war on drugs" which has made USA the number 1 country as far as number of people jailed. Has anyone noticed that people on average have been getting progressively more insane? And I'm not talking like in a fun, mostly reasonable way like I consider myself to be... I mean like VIOLENT. Well here's an idea... MAYBE if we let go of everyone in jail for nonviolent offenses we wouldn't have so many broken homes and incapable parents... maybe if we stopped paying cops to try busting innocent people they could actually focus on serving and protecting.
...I can't do this anymore right now. Later people.
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