Wednesday, May 11, 2011

ridin the monkey whirligig.

(fair warning, I am all over the place today)
If you haven't yet read Starving the Monkeys; you should.

Tom has a way with words, boiling things down to the simplest point without losing the integrity of the argument. Kind of like distilling a fine whiskey: the difference between rocket fuel and a high quality liquor is subtle, but unable to be done away with. That subtle difference is what makes him a better writer than I.


Yes, there will be consequences to secession. Some states, such as Michigan, will fall to Islam. Similarly, some states will fall to Christianity. Others will be reduced to cesspools of wounded bankers feeding on each other at last. But each of these will be powerless to infect the rest. Some states will fail of their own accord and become pits of despair which the good will flee. A few will prosper and act as beacons to the others. Far better than this vast gray paste of compliance we currently enjoy, don't you think? (emphasis mine)


Read the rest here.

There are a multitude of counter arguments that can go along with this stuff. One reason I like Toms style is his way of pulling in the counter argument at the same time. Showing the fallacy of propaganda based training. Yes, there has to be a common ground for things to make sense of anything; and that is where there is so much crap in the world today. Every body is screaming about "the one" this that or the other but so few look at the fact that we are all, ALL, human first. There are certain facts that go with that groundwork. Freedom of choice for one. Freedom to defend yourself and your property, family, even just your freedoms, for another. Once you remove all of the added luggage from the basest form, what you have is a weak, hairless monkey that has only one tool to use against the rest of the big bad world. Our teeth are pretty useless against tigers and bears, our 'claws' leave house cats laughing at us, we aren't exactly the fastest runners on the planet. And we have to move so much blood through these outrageously long limbs; our endurance is pretty crappy too(in comparison to other animals) BUT we have been given the most powerful brain on the planet (arguable but work with me here) One that we barely use 10% of on our best days. (and even so, have completely revamped the surface of this planet using that 10% of the brain)
Yet, many don't use even 1% it seems. They fall into the latest trend, to get along without rocking the boat. Or maintain silent oblivion in a secret hell they created due to the manipulations of someone else ( And I will let you make of that one, what you will. Archaic? you betcha)
Those that fall into the trap of 'keeping the norm' are, in my opinion, committing the greatest wrong of all. The entire goal of our existence is to improve our chances at everything. Better health, longer life, more intelligence, whatever: all to be passed on to our progeny in the understanding that they continue the improvement.

Yet every few hundred years, we get caught up in this argument of politics, government, socialization, and the most hateful of all, Altruism. That last is NEVER about what its stated intent is. NOPE, its all about the things that Barry boy and his minions have been preaching. Spreading the wealth. You lose so that someone else can gain, temporarily; all the while, hatred spreads like a brush fire.

We need to look past the large complex of rules and see what we can do to step back to a simpler existence. One were we are moving forward and bettering ourselves so that our children can do the same.

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