...And all this time I've been thinking that I don't have a predominant political stand.
I'm no feminist, anarchy is impractical due to the staggering stupidity of the majority of whiny adult-dressed-children desperate for someone to tell them what to believe, but I'm even further from the democrats, republicans, socialists, etc...
David and Tia call me a hippy, but that's in comparison to the beige-and-grey swathed corporates they find themselves surrounded by. I look dumb in a floral skirt, I swear.
Anwyay, today I'm a social constructionist and I'm quite aware of the delusional and arrogant bents of the idea.
But Rusty has a point and I like it. He hasn't actually referenced Descartes or any of the from-Aristotle-to-Fromm theories on happiness, but somehow he's geeked along the same lines as I and come up with the same conclusions.
And I like the commentaries, I like the ensuing arguments. I know it's an arrogant POV, and I know that it's more than a little sociopathic, but it strikes a chord.
The sort of chord that sings just past the latest hour of an evening, and moans "I wish we could start over. I wish we could start over and start a different paradigm, cuz there sure as hell ain't no way that we're going to be able to fix it now. Bylaw after bylaw, we're just diggin' it deeper."
But maybe that's a geek thing too, but any coder knows that the more time you spend fixing up old code, the further away you get from writing good code. Patch upon patch upon patch and you end up with the winblows operating system.
Apple pies taste best from scratch.
I hate america.