Friday, June 2, 2023

Web Log 6.1.23

It's easier to copy these things into Blogspot and then tweet the link to the whole log for those who find it on Twitter... Look for a push for "tighter filtering of misleading, fear-producing content," e.g. Glyphosate Awareness, on Blogspot too. I'm sorry, I really am because real mail is going to cost real money, but all of us are going to have to prepare to receive our news via real mail. And it may have to be typed on real typewriters, the way the Internet's going. I wouldn't be surprised to see the'Net totally implode in the next two years. 

The Internet was funded largely as a tool for fascist control--meaning control by an unholy alliance between government, business, and the military, whether the details of policy are classified as old right, old left, or some new thing for a new generation. We had the ability to take over the Internet and maintain it as a tool for use in a democratic society. Not enough of us did enough of the work on that. If we don't build and maintain small private networks free from the corporations that have grown big and ugly, we'll soon have no Internet at all...because what religious clingers to socialism refuse to see is that socialism always self-destructs. 

Individual liberty is what put Britain ahead of Europe and then put the English-speaking countries ahead of the world. Capitalism, as a philosophy unenlightened by spirituality, does have built-in evils but they come from capitalism's tolerance for people's infringement on their less wealthy peers' liberty; on the whole, although people on the lower economic tiers of a capitalist society certainly suffer, they are still likely to suffer less, for fewer years, than everyone will suffer in a socialist society. In the United States the norm is that most young people start out near the bottom and work their way upward until they retire. We have not always realized how special and different and worth preserving it is that young people can work their way upward and most of them can retire. 

Food (Yuck) 

An extra benefit to carrying plenty of coins while shopping. You need to see the whole thing, but you can test this. Hold a coin up to a package of meat you're considering buying. Feel for a weak but discernible magnetic attraction. Do not eat magnetized meat. I take this seriously, not because I believe I understand the science involved well enough to know whether Karen Kingston's explanation is serious or a hoax, but because, if meat is magnetized, obviously something is wrong with it.


Politics 

Ron Paul at his best was summarized in a meme shared with the conservative-friendly philosophy blog, howtomeowinyiddish.blogspot.com: 


The theme is snarky, but the video contest is serious. My take? I'm very unlikely to vote against Robert Kennedy, even though I'd be thinking, the whole time, "O Lord, You remember what happened the last time we had a President Kennedy, or even a serious nominee Kennedy? No more reruns. Please please please." My second choice (Ron DeSantis, with or without Trump on the ticket, because he cannot afford to campaign against Trump) and third choice (Nikki Haley, less politically congenial and well funded than Yay! Ron! but a solid candidate, especially if she can team up with DeSantis and/or Trump and/or un-photogenic but effective Tim Scott) are hard to take seriously at this point, except that I want them to team up and not end up electing some undeserving D by in-fighting.


There's a problem I'd have with a DeSantis-Haley ticket. They're not teenagers, but they are well preserved and energetic. Dirty minds will fantasize. Spouses would have to be at their sides for every photo-op. Part of DeSantis' popularity is that his wife's looking so well. Who can resist a beautiful, healthy-looking cancer survivor? Talk about America's Sweetheart! I would hate to wonder whether stress had made her ill again. I say Go! Casey! and if staying in Florida is best for her, it's what her husband should do. He doesn't know that he'll have lost momentum in 2028, or in 2040--which is when he probably should think it's his last chance. His best political years are still mostly ahead of him, and who knows what real-world events will do. 


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