The weather today was less than could be hoped for on my day off. I was hoping to ride the Creek which is Little but nay was made of that plan. Then I was going to ride the skinny knobs, but couldn’t get out of the house. Then the Champ was going to ride Ice House but I wasn’t sure we would get there. So in short I spent the day under the idea that I was going to go for a ride but instead ended up just living under a roof under a big cloud. Maybe tomorrow… or the next day for sure.
Turkey Genocide Celebration Day is up and coming. KB and I will be snowmobiling into my sister’s cabin, where we were hitched for time and death do us part, for said celebration. Apparently this big damn cloud has been dropping rain that is fluffy and white on top of the mountain. Should be a good time unless I go completely insane in a cabin full of children, which is highly likely.
Moving on. It’s raining.
I posted a few posts back that I was looking for reading material. Well I got some, read it and now am once again looking. I am open to suggestions. I’ve also become increasingly suspicious of our mail carrier. In the past 12 months I’ve missed at least four National Geographics. We get our neighbors’ mail on a regular basis and things can take forever to show up. Case in point, my NG is an entire week behind schedule for this month and my book Memoirs of a Revolutionist still hasn’t arrived even though the Anarchists at AK Press say it was shipped on the 12th. I’m still waiting…
I officially read Greg Gaffin‘s two books in about a week. Interesting and a good read but not too much of a surprise on content. Both are available for borrowing if you have the urge to read the famous singer’s ideas on evolution, god and punk rock.
Speaking of ideas…
It has been my opinion for some time that economic systems, such as capitalism, feudalism, socialism, etc., are mechanisms for distributing goods. These different methods hold separate ideological claims and distribution is carried out in distinct manners. Viewing these economic systems as a mechanism for distribution, it makes it much easier to remove the emotion and analyze their abilities by how well the distribution occurs. It is quite easy to assume that the mechanism that keeps the warehouse where one lives stocked is going to be the best system. However, if that system tends to only stock your warehouse, there may be a problem with the mechanism.
Capitalism uses monetary exchange as the mechanism to move goods from the producer to the consumer. This works well as long as one has monetary means to obtain the goods and services needed. If we look at capitalism with a world wide lens, we find that distribution of all goods and services is skewed towards the wealthy countries. This seems obvious, but is also my point. If a system can only distribute goods towards the wealthy that system is not properly functioning, at least for the majority of the world. If you believe in equality it is hard to justify this great disconnect in what the world is capable of producing and what the majority of the human beings are able to procure.
In other musings of mine…
It was mentioned in a lively debate about politics and the current atmosphere surrounding our nation’s well being, that if you were to eliminate the wealthiest 1 percent of the population the entire economy would crash. Considering the amount of wealth that group controls, I have no doubt that claim is true. I must counter, however, with the question, what would happen if you eliminated the bottom group, eliminate the workers? The economy would also cease, stop and or collapse. I see the upper class more as equals than as powerful elite. Time and time again the workers have brought the powerful elite to their knees by simply putting their hands in their pockets and refuse to continue to slave away for their wealth.
If the upper are no more powerful or important than the bottom then why do we allow them to have the opportunity to have what the rest of us are denied?
Just some thoughts that have been bouncing around in my head for a while. They are now out and I can move onto other things.
That’s about it for today. I hope you enjoyed.
P. L. and R.