Uncontrolled Ramblings of David K Wright

My interest in writing this blog lies in my endless worshiping of life. I'd like to think my approach is much like my old hound dog's behavior when he used to gleefully drive his shoulder into a warm cow pie. He performed this gesture with gusto, with fascination and with a profound delight at having found the purpose in life. Jump in to this scree, rant or whatever the hell it is and offer up a few words. Click the pictures and they will blow up---figuratively speaking.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Revolution Watch

In the last week I have received two of the enclosed documents reminding me that the new interest rates on my gas credit cards has taken a slight change. It seems they saw fit to raise my interest rate to the low level of only 25-29.95%. Now mind you, I do not care because I NEVER carry a balance, so they work just fine. But can you imagine what this means for folks less fortunate who depend on these things to maintain their American dream. What if a person has a $10K standing bill or maybe a couple of them?

This entire country is run on debt. These cards drive the consumer society and the economy that goes with it. It would seem that this type of change in easy credit may slow the economy down, maybe to a level that is sustainable. Maybe this is a move in the right direction. Maybe it is an indicator of things to come. I guess one could call it a drop in the standard of living.

But then, if folks don't buy things how many others will lose their jobs because what they were making is now not being purchased? Rather seems like a downward spiral---sort of a revolution.

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Revolution Watch

Interestingly, we are stepping into a revolution, the Sustainable Revolution. This is a situation where we must quickly move away from our ways of the past into lifestyle that can be maintained continually and indefinitely. This movement is based on the simple position that it is mathematically impossible to have exponential growth in a finite world.

Unfortunately, there are two groups of individuals that think it is possible to expand both population and economies exponentially indefinitely. One is the complete mad man and the other is the economist. Both frequently hold sway over our lives.

I will be including a section in my blog called Revolution Watch that will list some of the events and situations occurring that may indicate how the revolution is going. There will be highs and lows, of course, but this is history at its finest.

Quotes of interest

"All the way to heaven is heaven". St. Cathrine

"I don't know what planet Neil Young is from but some day I want to go there".

"Society is like a stew, unless stirred frequently, the scum rises to the top"
-Abbey

“If you cut down more trees than you grow, you run out of trees. If you put additional nitrogen into a water system, you change the type and quantity of life that water can support. If you thicken the Earth’s CO2 blanket, the Earth gets warmer. If you do all these and many more things at once, you change the way the whole system of planet Earth behaves, with social, economic, and life support impacts. This is not speculation; this is high school science.” -Paul Gilding

"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home & our being, drive a spear into the land, & say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government & corporations, "thus far & no farther."
— Edward Abbey

"Only in a world of unlimited resources can all men be brothers."..Robert Zubrin

” The USA slogs deeper into paralysis and decay in a collective mental fog of disbelief that its own exceptionalism can’t overcome the laws of thermodynamics.” Kunstler

"The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly." Evasmus

"Unlike the plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases, which we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of billions of people who are its victims." ML King

"The biggest threat to the American way of life, is the American way of life." Hagans

An old Buddhist adage says: If and when everyone is mindlessly stupid, will anyone notice?

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime."
~ Max Stirner

"When fascism comes to this country it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross" Sinclair Lewis

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen

"Science reminds us that we dwell in a mystery that is ultimately more to be savored than to be solved." Overbye

"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction."-Jean Dubuffet

"We must face the prospect of changing our basic way of living. This change will either be made by our own initiative in a planned way, or forced on us by chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature. " J Carter

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" - Bruce Lee.

"God is away on a business trip and he is not coming back." Tom Waits

Business men they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.

None of them along the line know what it is worth.

No reason to get excited the thief he kindly spoke.

There are many here among us that think that life is but a joke.

But you and I have been through that and this is not our fate.

So let us not talk softly now the hour is getting late. Dylan

"I could have been somebody. I could have been a contender." Brando

"To sin by silence makes cowards of men". A Lincoln

"It is impossible to change someone's mind when ever bit of money he makes depends on him not changing his mind." I don't know--not me.

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat

"Death is often a good career move for an artist." Taleb

" I never meant to say conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say stupid people are generally conservative." John Stuart Mill

"If it ain't fun for both of us, it ain't fun." Andy Shea

In this world shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas, virtue if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. Melville, Moby Dick

"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, I must say that a revolution is an act of great love." Che Guevara

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A."- Gordon Gekko (in the Wall Street movie)

"Men argue; nature acts." Voltaire

"Its not that hard times are coming. Its that soft times are going." Groucho Marx

"It does not do to leave dragons out of your calculations, if you live next to him." JRR Tolkien

"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West...if an entire nation of 300 million took to a similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts." Gandhi 1928

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable". M L King

"From such crooked wood from which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned" Immanual Kant

In our best moments as members of a thinking and aware species, we can be quite formidable, even if we might want to be - much more - humble about that. In the rest of our moments, though, we are blindly chasing the same urges as yeast or amoeba, which of pure physical necessity feed into never-ending cycles of growth and collapse.

Yeast don't have options, or a choice. Isaac Newton et al showed us that we do have. So what will it be? Are we going to chase eternal growth mirages, long discarded by physics? Or are we going to pause and think about it? You wouldn't perhaps know it to look at us, but we can.

Raul Meijer AE

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