Monies

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

—When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion

—When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing (politicians)

—When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors (politicians)

—When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them (politicians), but protect them (politicians) against you

—When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice

—You may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it becomes, marked: 'Account overdrawn.'

The problem is choice. I alone control my actions. Your system depends on us adhering to a certain pattern of behavior, but we each have the power to reject it. You will only survive as long as individuals believe you exist and act accordingly, but you cannot compel the choice. You can never take away my ability to choose life without you, to ignore your behavioral suggestions, to act on my own.

i'm right you're wrong

when i wrote the previous entry, i mentioned that my views are right, and yours are wrong.  when i say that... i'm not discounting you entire belief system.  i am speaking mostly to people who identify with being a liberal or a conservative.  what i am saying is that both have valid points and both have invalid points.  i won't get into each positive aspect of each party right now but i want to offer another alternative, a hodge podge of political perspectives called 'Libertarianism."  defined as:

Libertarianism is the group of political philosophies that advocates minimizing coercion and emphasizes freedom,liberty, and voluntary association. Libertarians generally advocate a society with significantly less governmentcompared to most present day societies.

how i interpret this as... the social/civil aspects of liberals and the economics of a conservative.  i'm quite aware it isn't that simple but its a start.  so when i say "i'm right and you're" wrong, i am merely saying being in one of the two major parties that control our mainstream media, our currency/economics, our laws, our social lives, and our foreign policies are WRONG, bottom line...

~ ill get more into this later

with the election

so i haven't decided who i am going to vote for yet... Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate or decide to go ahead and right in Ron Paul because i love him.

i am disgusted with politics.  both the left and the right is corrupt, they play for the same team, they are both pushing our society towards a totalitarian state.  one side raises taxes and spends it on shit we don't need, the economy takes a hit and we hire the other guy cause we 'think' he will fix our problems but really its the same thing, a relay race to totalitarianism.  one side will spend it on controlling our social lives, the other, on controlling our economic lives.  eventually the federal government will have complete control over both.

i don't understand why people don't see that.  i don't understand why people don't think for themselves.  and i know how that sounds, i mean i'm in essence writing this telling people my political perspective all the while saying people should think for themselves?  i mean really it kind of seems like i'm saying "people should think like me."  i'm quite aware that it kind of comes off like "i'm right, you're wrong" but to be honest, i am and i thank Ayn Rand for giving me 'self esteem' to admit it.  i want to inspire others.  and i'm not saying this is gospel or anything, but the 27 years of being a part of this human condition, these things i right are things that truly resonate within my being.

i was listening to Ayn Rand this morning and she got inside my head with a few things.  one important aspect  was selfishness and in an interview she was asked the value of it.  see below:

meeting Libertarianism

so i am righting this blog, and these ideas purely for myself... and i say that so i can justify myself later if anybody disagrees with me :).  i have feelings inside i need to express.  i need to understand them and keeping them inside is driving me crazy.

 the current state of this world makes my heart bleed.  now i've always had this distaste for politics ever since people started talking about them.  early on in life i found myself at odds with my "families" political perspective and that of my friends i associated with.  my family, conservative... specifically individual freedom, integrity, and free market ideals made a lot of sense to me.  my friends however gave me the opposite perspective and to a certain extent ridiculed me for standing up for a conservative perspective.  this dissonance drove me crazy and well i learned, like most people do in life, to keep my politics to myself (excluding all those times you get really drunk and start talking politics or religion lol).

later in life, after sitting silently through discussions of my friends talk about liberal perspective, i started to question what it was i believed in.  i mean i believe in personal responsibility and individual freedom but i couldn't shake the fact that MOST people i knew associated with the left.  it made me feel uneasy, like i was missing some big peace of the puzzle.  i guess you could say i walked around in this political haze for a number of years.

this started to when i was working at the Minnesota State Fair.  while not working very hard at a lemonade stand, i came across a libertarian newsletter.  on the back of this newsletter, it described what was a 'Libertarian,' a word i had never heard before.  heck everything i read made sense! i felt inspired, but didn't really know what to do with this 'inspiration.'  i tried to tell my friends about it, but like most 'people' they ignore you or get angry when you try to offer ANYTHING new that may possibly contradict their existing belief system.  i mean we are people right?  we know everything! there is no room for any new idea! lol

at this point in time i wasn't sure what to do with this new little political party so i stayed a republican for a few more years until the 2008 election.  the 2008 election brought me at complete odds, on one hand i have my family who is republican and most everyone i know, liberal.  i really had no idea what i was going to do... i didn't feel like i could vote for either of these parties because on some weird level i was letting one of the 2 important groups of people in my life down.  i turned to the internets and looked up libertarian again... i started reading and without much thought decided to vote independent and vote libertarian.  it was a happy medium between letting my friends and family down ~ not like they were depending on me, but in my head they were in some weird way.