You know I sometimes I look at what I've written here in the past and its like looking at a ghost. Looking at what I used to be, old friends, feelings and obsessions for things I no longer care about, an era long gone. It's a strange feeling. I'm always on here seeing what my friends are up to, but I never write anything here. Sometimes people write about what happened to them during the day, or what their dreams are and such. I never felt comfortable writing that. I don't mind talking about such stuff in person, but I find it so difficult to convey such thoughts and emotion over such inorganic and plain text. I'm not sure what triggered me to write this, its a lot of this is babble towards the end you might not be interested in, but first lets have with whats up with me, since I haven't updated in so long:
Things with me be have been fine, and thats the word I would use, "fine". I have stable employment here at the School District, and good benefits, but my yearly salary is a joke, I make half of what a first year teacher makes, and some of those rookie teachers are my age now. It's rather upsetting, I do like my job, I just wish it paid more.
Stevie is has been unemployed for a year now, I really don't know what lies in the future for him in regards to his professional life. About a month from now, on 2.20, Stevie and I will have been together now for 3 years. We definitely are going to move in together sometime its just this time we live now with the state of the economy, makes that difficult.
In the summer of 2008 my political viewpoints underwent a Volte-face. I used to be a liberal democrat but these days I have been obsessed with Austrian economics and politics, I suppose reading Atlas Shrugged back then had a part in that. After I finished the book the economy tanked and the feds passed the TARP bailout programme, kind of ironic, almost like a sign from god. I also have become obsessed with political philosophy, I'm fascinated as to why people hold certain political viewpoints. There is no place better to study human behaviour than in politics, as all the facades of politeness come off, and the worst qualities of people show. Its an incomplete idea of mine, but I've theorized that those who favour collectivist strong arm government interventionist tactics, (democrats, socialists, and the like) are manipulative people by nature due to a psychological defect. Not to say that any human is perfect, we are infallible beings complete with many flaws, but the mindset of the liberal seems bent on molding society into the Utopia of their dreams. Perhaps it is because these liberals have experienced events in their life that mentally scarred them and thus they have become dedicated to preventing harm to others. Therefore they decide that with their perceived superior intellect, they will decide what is truly best for society.
To challenge their views would mean opposing assistance for X pity group (The poor, Children, etc) "and how dare you oppose group X, you really hate X dont you." ad homenim etc. They use such attacks to appeal to emotion so that people will be so offended that they cannot be reasoned with. They are enamored with cultural Marxism and the idea that western culture must be dismantled(Read about the Frankfurt School) because it is inadequate to address the issues such as race, cultural oppression, etc Therefore a new culture must be created by the so called "intellectuals" and the new culture will be a Utopian culture where no specific group will be in conflict with another. The underlying message is that the state lead by the right enlightened individuals will lead to the perfect Utopian world. In reality though, no human is perfect, there are no omnipotent enlightened humans to take us down the road to utopia. Spontaneous order and the invisible hand of the free market empowers individuals to take the necessary voluntary actions to help their fellow man. This is the superior method of helping the poor and needy, and other groups who need the help of society. Despite what people tell you, I believe that overall human's are charitable by nature, and good at heart. The controls needed to stop the perceived ills of society through centralized government would create chaos and problems worse than than whatever it is they seek to prevent, and/or fix.
But I digress, this is the mentality of general public, and our currently elected leaders. Politicians will tell us we are heading down the Road to Utopia, but so long as we are fed well, and have plenty of distractions to prevent us from seeing reality as it is, we will be content as living as easily distractable serfs. No, we are not on the road to utopia, but instead as F.A Hayek predicted in 1944, we are headed down the Road to Serfdom.
also The sense of entitlement is also another thing that bugs me. Example:
Socialist: "I am entitled to _____________. Therefore I require you give me ______________. How dare you say I dont deserve _________, don't push your morals on me!"
When you try to counter their demands, the response is like that of a brat stomping their feet on the ground demanding "I want ____________! and I won't move and I will make as much noise until i Get ___________!" but thats another topic, lol
Things with me be have been fine, and thats the word I would use, "fine". I have stable employment here at the School District, and good benefits, but my yearly salary is a joke, I make half of what a first year teacher makes, and some of those rookie teachers are my age now. It's rather upsetting, I do like my job, I just wish it paid more.
Stevie is has been unemployed for a year now, I really don't know what lies in the future for him in regards to his professional life. About a month from now, on 2.20, Stevie and I will have been together now for 3 years. We definitely are going to move in together sometime its just this time we live now with the state of the economy, makes that difficult.
In the summer of 2008 my political viewpoints underwent a Volte-face. I used to be a liberal democrat but these days I have been obsessed with Austrian economics and politics, I suppose reading Atlas Shrugged back then had a part in that. After I finished the book the economy tanked and the feds passed the TARP bailout programme, kind of ironic, almost like a sign from god. I also have become obsessed with political philosophy, I'm fascinated as to why people hold certain political viewpoints. There is no place better to study human behaviour than in politics, as all the facades of politeness come off, and the worst qualities of people show. Its an incomplete idea of mine, but I've theorized that those who favour collectivist strong arm government interventionist tactics, (democrats, socialists, and the like) are manipulative people by nature due to a psychological defect. Not to say that any human is perfect, we are infallible beings complete with many flaws, but the mindset of the liberal seems bent on molding society into the Utopia of their dreams. Perhaps it is because these liberals have experienced events in their life that mentally scarred them and thus they have become dedicated to preventing harm to others. Therefore they decide that with their perceived superior intellect, they will decide what is truly best for society.
To challenge their views would mean opposing assistance for X pity group (The poor, Children, etc) "and how dare you oppose group X, you really hate X dont you." ad homenim etc. They use such attacks to appeal to emotion so that people will be so offended that they cannot be reasoned with. They are enamored with cultural Marxism and the idea that western culture must be dismantled(Read about the Frankfurt School) because it is inadequate to address the issues such as race, cultural oppression, etc Therefore a new culture must be created by the so called "intellectuals" and the new culture will be a Utopian culture where no specific group will be in conflict with another. The underlying message is that the state lead by the right enlightened individuals will lead to the perfect Utopian world. In reality though, no human is perfect, there are no omnipotent enlightened humans to take us down the road to utopia. Spontaneous order and the invisible hand of the free market empowers individuals to take the necessary voluntary actions to help their fellow man. This is the superior method of helping the poor and needy, and other groups who need the help of society. Despite what people tell you, I believe that overall human's are charitable by nature, and good at heart. The controls needed to stop the perceived ills of society through centralized government would create chaos and problems worse than than whatever it is they seek to prevent, and/or fix.
But I digress, this is the mentality of general public, and our currently elected leaders. Politicians will tell us we are heading down the Road to Utopia, but so long as we are fed well, and have plenty of distractions to prevent us from seeing reality as it is, we will be content as living as easily distractable serfs. No, we are not on the road to utopia, but instead as F.A Hayek predicted in 1944, we are headed down the Road to Serfdom.
also The sense of entitlement is also another thing that bugs me. Example:
Socialist: "I am entitled to _____________. Therefore I require you give me ______________. How dare you say I dont deserve _________, don't push your morals on me!"
When you try to counter their demands, the response is like that of a brat stomping their feet on the ground demanding "I want ____________! and I won't move and I will make as much noise until i Get ___________!" but thats another topic, lol
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