For your consideration.

Thursday, April 26, 2007


Everyday we engage each other, the landscape, the machine, the society, the dollar. And we find ourselves at times in conflict with motivations from our peers, the elements, the participants, the dissenters, the villains, even history's heroes. "Lets talk things out," they say and will propogate, "lets make things right and compromise, lets support meaningful dialogue and debate". From this actuality, many will gain and few will prosper.

Exactly the disconnect. Our current market structure is not willing to compromise when many gain; proof exists in the aristocracy of the United States of America - this obsessive focus on Anna Nicole, this Sanjaya character, the 2008 candidates. We are encouraged to force our motivations upon the destitute - interupted and formulaic. Calculated. Ingenuine. Superficial. Value of the dollar and a deep pocket. Vote with a text message, and that'll be 10 cents please.

I see many inherent flaws in capitalism. The true form of this economic system abandons the relatively new concepts we've conceived: universal health care, campaign finance reform, welfare, the energy crisis. Capitalism doesn't address these new conceptual programs - Adam Smith's "invisible hand" in a capital market has yet to manifest and address the necessary demands of our communities or any feasible solution to these concepts.

We have chased an imperial dragon, only to be burned on the coasts of foreign lands, and in the basket of our Earth's diversity. This is reality - over half of a trillion dollars are lost to the fire.

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