The One About Aw Crap You Mean He's Not Dead!

GOOD MORNING INTERTUBES!

Okay. Here's the thing. I wanted to leave. I tried to leave. I've gotten a job. It's not a great job, but the work environment doesn't suck, and let's face it a job is a damn site better than no job. And thanks to the recently raised minimum wage it is at least possible to make a living if you are lucky enough to live in a place like I do that has a fairly low cost of living. (On a side note if you are reading this and are against the Federal Minimum Wage, allow me to take a moment to tell you to go fuck yourself. No seriously, get a big black dildo and go to it. I'll wait. I don't mind.)

So, in the meantime I have been doing my very very best to give up politics. Why? Well geez I don't know. How about the fact that Obama has turned into Clinton Lite? Or the fact that you have politician assholes crafting cop out laws that don't actually fix a Goddamn thing and then cumming all over each others backs about what a great thing they've done for the American People. Or the fact that we live in a universe in which BP is allowed to call the shots of the clean up, after they fucked up the drilling by cutting corners, because heavens fucking forfend that we should regulate any business ever.

Letting BP or any company that has fucked up as badly as they have, have a voice in anything is akin to letting the person who has openly raped somebody be in charge of the investigation.

Meanwhile and in other news we have Rand Paul. You know Rand Paul right? Living proof that the "If you think his dad was bad" idea doesn't stop with the Bush family.

I love Rand Paul. Because he is the ideal example of why once you get Libertarians away from Drugs, and Prostitution, they are pretty much deep into the woods of fantasyland.

Rand Paul basically would have preferred that there not have been legislation forcing private businesses to not discriminate in who they serve. He's fine with anti discrimination laws regarding Federal Government stuff. But not for private businesses.

Now of course on a purely mundane level he's just really shitty at being interviewed. I mean I don't agree with the man and i could do a better job articulating his position than he did.

But on a philosophical level Libertarianism (Which is essentially the political expression of Objectivism) is pretty much bullshit when it comes to dealing with things like racism, sexism, etc. Because Libertarianism is based on a fantasy that if you leave everyone alone to seek their own best interests those individual interests well somehow magically at the same time bring about what is best for society as a whole.

In Rand Paul's Libertarian fantasy I imagine that a refusal to serve a black person in the sixties probably looks something like this...

Black Person: "Good day sir. I was attempting to choose from the vast number of diners wherein a person of my dusky hue might obtain a repast and this one looked quite inviting. Might I take a seat?"

Business Owner: "No. I'd really prefer it if you didn't."

Black Person: "Very well then. I shall take my disposable income elsewhere. May the lord bless and keep you."

Wow. Isn't that a lovely fantasy. If only it had worked that way. Instead it went a bit more like this.

Black Person: "Hi. I'd like a baloney sandwich and a glass of water please."

Business Owner: "Ain't got no sammiches for no Negroes. Best you get a move on boy."

Black Person: "So my money isn't welcome here?"

Guy with gun: "You're money ain't welcome here, and your uppity attitude ain't welcome here." (Proceeds to pistol whip black person)

Black Person: "You know just because I'm black doesn't give you a right to assault me. I'm calling the police."

Guy with gun: "Heh. I am the police you dumb nigger."

Frankly this is just one fictional tableau out of many that we could use. The bottom line is that Libertarianism always sounds like such a plausible idea, but because it refuses, really is incapable of addressing things like greed, violence etc. it is in the end a limited and limiting philosophy. It's fine for dealing with so called victimless crimes like voluntary drug use, voluntary prostitution, etc. But get into much murkier waters? And it's a bit like attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a paper boat.

But I digress.

The point is that no matter how much I want to get out of this world I can't. Because so long as the Conservative/Libertarian voice is so loud as to drown out thought and common sense I am going to have to continue to scream at the top of my lungs.

However having said that I will be doing less screaming. I have a job. I also have another project that includes a blog that is more spiritually inclined called The Threefold Path. So I don't know right now how often I'll be posting. I'm hoping for at least once a week maybe twice.

But I am not gone, and I never will be.

Keep The Faith My Brothers And Sisters!