Political Scatology

Pat's had some really hip posts this week which are exactly what I'm interested in. Props to Pat--http://prisonship.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/attention-nick-bishop/#comments
as well as http://prisonship.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/lets-eliminate-these-adjectives/ Ideas being tossed around is good but I'd like to continue a theme common to Ben and Rob's (This guy is seriously MIA) posts and expand on this a little.

Ultimately subjectively we all have certain concepts that we can't stand, in many cases concepts that the meaning of which is so amorphous that we can't really understand them or easilly confuse them, although without many of them (or the feelings and instincts behind them) we couldn't survive and maintain our own identities, or identify with expressive concepts, because ultimately all are theraputic (wrong word I know, its all in HOW you use them) in some sense. The same can be said with political attributes/concepts, although these seem to be a little more high stakes in that they to a large extent create the reality that we can/can't stand, and. Many of the words mentioned i've used, or haven't. And I'm sure as you all were checking those posts (and hopefully this one) you felt the same.

What excites me are the larger relationships that form these modes of speech that form the foundations of how we relate, or are led by the political systems and intricacies that dominate our consciences and vice versa. Lets remember that neither inductive logic nor deductive logic can ultimatly make sense of these distinctions, also ultimately we can't prove cause and effect through numbers alone either. I think we have a better shot of "scientifically" unlocking these connections through geographic analysis. What say you.

Free Market: That condition of society in which all economic transactions result from voluntary choice without coercion.

The State: That institution which interferes with the Free Market through the direct exervise of coercion or the granting of privelages (backed by coercion)


Tax: That form of coercion or interference with the Free Market in which the State collects tribute, allowing it to hire armed forces to practice coercion in defense of privelage, alnd also to engage in such wars, adventures, experiments, "reforms," etc., as it pleases, not at its own cost, but at the cost of "its" subjects.

Privilege: From the latin privi, private, and lege, law. An advantage granted by the State and protected by its powers of coercion. A law for private benefit.

Landlordism: That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group "owns" the land and thereby takes tribute (rent) from those who live, work, or produce on the land.

Tariff: That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which commodities produced outside the State are not allowed to compete equally with those produced inside the State.

Capitalism: That organization of society, incorporating elements of tax, usury, landlordism, tariff, which thus denies the Free Market while pretending to exemplify it.

Conservatism: That school of capitalist philosophy which claims allegiance to the Free Market while actually supporting usury, landlordism, tariff, and sometimes (frequently as of recent) taxation

Liberalism: That school of capitalist philosophy which attempts to correct the injustices of capitalism by adding new laws to the existing laws. Each time conservatives pass a law creating privilege, liberals pass another law modifying privilege, leading conservatives to pass a more subtle law recreating privilege, etc., until "everything not forbidden is compulsory" and "everything not compulsory is forvidded."

Socialism: The attempted abolition of all privilege by restoring power entirely to the coercive agent behind privelege, the State, thereby converting capitalist oligarchy ito Statist monopoly. Watewashing a wall by painting it black.

Anarchism: That organization of society in which the Free Market operates freely, without taxes, usury, landlordism, tarrifs, or other forms of coercion or privilege. Right anarchists predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to compete more often than cooperate. Left anarchists predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to cooperate more often than to compete.

Anyone who can place this scatology? Guesses? Thoughts?

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Burger Nite!

Siberian Hunter-n.-def.-One who wears winter camo (aka. black and white camo, not black white and grey, black and white) during the peak fall color season.

So we went camping again this weekend at Lost Maples about the only place in Texas where the leaves actually turn a delightful color other than burnt orange (for more on burnt orange search texas longhorns on the internet). The pictures probably won't do it justice, since most longhorm fans are ugly minus those sorority girls that are so thin they should be dead, and that pretty much speaks for itself, see Will's blog for more on that bit. So, anyway, we go camping and who do we see in the middle of the trail on the way walking to our primitive camp site. But the dude in full siberian camo. I'm talking coat, pants, hat, and don't forget the jack boots. Needless to say my friends and I laughed about that all weekend. We go to see fall colors, he goes to "blend in", unsuccessfully I might add. Maybe he was celebrating the beginning of hunting season, too bad the deer were probably better prepared than he was. Anyways this will continue to be a never ending joke as in the "I'll do anything for money type". We came up with a circular thought problem that begins with the sight of the Siberian Hunter, and ends with one of us showing up to a party at the other's house in full siberian hunter attire, sketchy mustache and all. I wish I could have found a picture which would do this justice.

Anyways, later in the night, after about a bottle of wine and probably 14 beers, I decided to press my ass to the grill (ass to flame style), it wasn't very hot at first, then I actually touched the grill we were using and burned a line in my ass, which hurt pretty bad that night and the next morning. Also my friend Scott out of courtesy to park staff put out our remaining hot coals by urinating on the park grill. Can't wait to taste some meat like that. Question to all, am I a 14 year old trapped in a 27 year old's body or a 48 year old trapped in a 27 year old's body?