cecil rant: trust not in any absolutism

[mtmynd]

trust not in any absolutism

as oil prices continue to drop so does interest in alternative fuel, gas-saving cars, ethanol or any other means of reducing the oil glut of the world. cost and common sense again come to a clash with cost winning out. good for the wealthy that have interest in oil and energy as anything alternative is a financial threat for those interests, the public be damned.

the current republican rant, 'socialism', is a wonderful scare word, isn't' it? another way to corral the people's thinking into the little cubicles big business is fond of using for it's workforce... minimize socializing... another way to reduce the dreaded
socialism. forget our public schools, our wonderful national parks, including state parks and city parks nationwide and include our hiways, freeways and all other asphalt roadways and while i'm at it even the military are all social programs, i.e. 'socialism/ ! gads!

things are spinning outta control. recently i've heard that the schools systems in dallas, texas have had to lay-off 300 or more teachers because there isn't enough money to pay them. this sort of budgetary madness is going on nationally with reductions rampant in all sectors of society. whether this will continue on into and thru 2009 is anyone's guess. but something is certainly happening, and we don't know what it is, do we mr. jones?

like i've proclaimed in various posts here and there, it all seems to point to a very troublesome time for capitalism... more-so hyper-capitalism. our excesses on all fronts from private to public, from corporate to governments have gone ballistic and the payment due is now being presented to all of us. whether there is any realistic way for our country can payoff such an enormous debt load appears realistically to be damn near impossible, especially given the fact that there are so many layoffs happening and may very well well happen in the near future. where will john q. get the money to pay the debt? magic can be ruled out, especially with numbers. wall street and it's cronies tried to play tricks with numbers and the game finally crumbled.

numbers are exact. there's no fudging the truth of numbers without a catastrophic result. when capitalism relies on money and it's flow as capitalism does, this is a number game, pure and simple. if we are reliant on capitalism as the only way to assure success for it's followers, it does follow that we must not play games with numbers. again, numbers are pure and exact, as our capitalist ways must be. if we do not trust in the absolute accuracy of numbers, to include money, we cannot put absolute trust in capitalism.

i think it's fair to say that there is an absolute need to accept the balance of capitalism and socialism for any government to work cohesively, as a smoothly functioning organism... some levels of capitalism working with equal amounts of a socialism both beneficial to the society to which it serves.

the strict idiocy of the republican conservative theory is so rigid in it's belief that only the private sector and only the privately held corporate wealth can benefit only those that believe such ideas leave far too many out of the system, which only weakens the overall health of the country.

perhaps our country may have to bend it's rules to explore more closely this yin/yang proposition, after all it really isn't so foreign given the history of the 20th century where a social welfare had to be implemented to assist our populace during the 30's, as an example.

any government cannot have it either one way or the other, in this case capitalism or socialism, with administering such strict and rigid controls that freedom becomes jeopardized. absolutism is not the answer. either or is not an option. yin/yang in this case is just as valid as yin/yang in any other scenario - it is truth, as an absolute truth as numbers.

[to be continued at some later date...]


cecil
10.20.08