Saturday as a work day

Will spend the next month or so figuring out the landing zone. I am thinking about getting out of Oregon and to a low tax state, but that will require a lot more research. Oregon is actually pretty good, but the rents just keep going up and the 9% that Oregon will be pulling out of my retirement will suck pretty bad.

 

Today’s Screed

Political passions, whether they arise on the left or the right, are symptoms of human stupidity, which it is the novelist’s job to unmask.

Gustave Flaubert

Restated: Political passion always flows from the mouth hole of a stupid mask. Self check: If one finds oneself starting to feel passionate about politics, one should work to counter the pull into stupidity.

  Michael

Like original sin, politics will be with us always. Maybe politics itself is the ultimate manifestation of original sin.

Now, I know that here in woke America, we are supposed to believe à la Rousseau that man is a noble creature, brought low by the structure of a decadent society and repressed by faulty and nearly evil. I can see no evidence in history to support this claim. It appears to me that the old adage “Power Corrupts” applies across the human experience and people who claim innocence just haven’t had their turn at power.

I realize and respect my friends loathing of the human-shaped similacrum that resides at 1600. But truthfully, he is just one of the fallen, and the fallen appear to be running the show. 1600 is just the frontman for an evil and avaricious system that is running out of gas.

I think that some folks feel that the process of replacing yon douchebag will begin the “healing” that will bring us back our cargo-cult materiel and lead us back to the promised land of seeing the USA in our Chevrolet. Nothing will be further from the truth. If replaced, the figurehead will either

• Continue the looting of the middle and lower classes to the benefit of the wealthy. (Democrat/Republican Option)
• Change the looting to benefit the other classes (No particular candidate thus far).

But the real issue is that the pie is beginning to shrink. The number of people who want a piece of the pay is not shrinking.