I haven't been doing too much political stuff here lately. I've been kinda speechless in that area. I've always been a bit confused as to how people in government and people who control untold riches would allow kids to be in poverty or let things like AIDS & cancer devestate people, or why commerce is more important than clean air & water. I don't get it...

I'm not calling for people to become hunter-gatherers or have the world be one big commune. And I recognize that the things that we (mostly Americans) take for granted wouldn't have been around if it wasn't for greedy capitalist pigs. We have most of what we have technologically because of greed and war. But my argument is, why can't people be motivated to create for other reasons. Actually, they can and do, but the greedy war-mongers tend to screw them over.

I will never, ever understand the War Criminal's motivation for the stuff his administration does. Yeah, I read Lakoff, but that explanation doesn't work for me. That whole paternal/maternal outlook isn't enough of an explanation. Look, I'm not Gandhi. I want bad people to have bad karma. I don't want the state to kick their asses, I want fate to. Sounds like the wussy way out, I know. I just don't understand how the people in power can make the decisions (or not make decisions) they do.

Having said all that....I don't know what more to say about it. The situations at every level of our society are totally incomprehensible to me. People's reactions and non-reactions are incomprehensible to me.

God damn, I sure am glad Steroidball is starting soon!