The mind contains within it the entirety of human experience and then some.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Money for nothing

I find myself weighed down by the evil nature of money today. Why must our hard work and energy be transferred and returned to us as a numerical value? Why are some given energy for little or no effort while others need to break themselves for just enough energy to power their survival? Why are their institutions that are designed to syphon our energy? and why are they sanctioned by the powers that we give trade our energy to for protection? Please answer me this question anonymous god of internet intelligence. As an aside, does naming a god create them or must they exist to plant the seed in our imagination?

Friday, October 8, 2010

Survival of the witless

I was treated to a very racially charged political debate today and as I was listening I couldn't help but think of the aggression being spewed about and how little it had to do with practical survival. This got me thinking of how survival in this era has very little to do with survival in a classic natural sense, and yet for all the differences the rules are brutally simple and concise.

If you can accept the notion of growth and change separate from the theory of evolution I think you have to question the values we have collectively chosen to exalt as a species. Viscous cold hearted cutthroat convoluted trickery should not be a solid tactical approach to ones dealings with others, but it is.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Green light for Red

I have often wonder, without any sense of controversy, who exactly benefits from the outlawing of prostitution?

Certainly not the one who lacks the social or physical graces to inspire consensual sex without overt payment. And also not the one who wishes to afford a certain lifestyle yet lacks the necessary intellect or drive to earn a living in some other manner. In fact it just struck me that some terrible harm is being done to the psyche of these individuals through the criminalization of their instinctual imperative in a world that embraces monetary trade.

Imagine how you may feel it was illegal to hire someone to clean your house, but you did it anyway. For years hiding from your friends and family that you don't ever clean the bathtub or vacuum the rug. I am sure that sort of pressure would eat at a person of conscience. And how about having to hide from your children the fact that the food they are eating was earned through folding and dusting for a stranger.

Wouldn't a safe work environment benefit prostitutes and their clients? And what about a fair wage for the prostitute themselves instead of the current pimpery which our government practically sanctions through their morality based legal system.

I ask again who is being protected by these morals?