Friday, August 05, 2005

Blabs

Hey, this wasn't intentional. But I did it. Here: Look at a wart. It's okay to make the occasional mistake. I was going for something about how people can't keep their mind going in one direction with all the hyperdistracting reality around us. But you can see where it went. Lost focus.

I hate blogs. But I guess I don't.

Some people appear to be able to focus. I try hard to focus on the domestic US. This is where I live, and I grew up in a conservative household helieving that government is a lowly profession, government shouldn't affect our lives in a restrictive way, and that people should have real jobs producing something or providing a valuable service.

So I criticize the hypocritical 'Conservative' faction. They are as a rule reactionary and radical. But they want to get involved in our behavior. They want to throw markets out of balance and create special classes of person: the Company and the Leader. These two entities would operate above and transcend responsibility. They don't hug their kids or watch cartoons, they just wield and get.

So restrictions on the behavior of companies and leaders are Different. Leaders should have to check with their bosses before they leave their desk to use the bathroom. Gotta watch them. And companies are owned by individuals who learn they can profit immensely by ignoring, cheating, stealing, usurping,... A for-profit company is like a person, but without morality or conscience. Gotta watch them too.

Enron should have zero influence with our government. It's that simple. But they don't because the fox is minding the asylum.

So I'm for regulation of businesses and the government, and freedom for the people.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course, some blogs are useless and others are treasure-troves.

Don't know what I'd do without Talking Points Memo, Crooks & Liars, Andrew Sullivan, AntiWar.com, Jude Wanniski, and so many others that enlighten rather than tell me what the author had for breakfast...

Yeah but these fucks you're describing gotta go. They talk about freedom being on the march, but it's marching straight OUT of the good ol' USA, and it never started to march in newly-liberated and ever-grateful Iraq, where the shia mullahs in the south are patiently waiting for us to leave so they can have their own little Iran.

So we can then attack the other Iran...in Cheney's and Michael Ledeen's wet dream.

Anonymous said...

On second thought, what I'd probably do without those good blogs, and this one, is get something done at work :-)