The Three Tenets of Existential Terrorism

Words are not things or actions. They are vibrations of the air molecules or squiggles on a page. Mistaking words for reality is the mistake that puts politicians in office and sells all of the products, religions, and systems of government on the planet. Saying "Tree" is no more a tree than saying "I love you" means that someone loves you. To perceive reality as it is, one must accept that words are a vehicle for the transference of our perception of reality, not reality itself.
God is dead. I killed him (it, them, her, et al) on November 5th, 1991. Justifiable Homicide. The idea that the universe is run by some cosmic supra-hero concept of ourselves is absurd and unproven. The idea that the creator of the universe put us here in these bodies to satisfy some moral experiment is offensive. The God question; "What are we doing here?", may or may not be valid. At this time, we are here because the physical laws of the universe are not completely against our existence. Our short time of consciousness would be far better served ensuring our survival rather than posturing before some misanthropic cosmic deity.
The only government, the only rule of law, is economics. However our societies are structured, whatever religion or ethnicity, we have all decided that those with relatively more assets have better lives than those with less relative wealth. All measured value is economic value in this system.

Monday, January 28, 2013

The Immigration Obfuscation


Part I

The Senate has passed immigration reform.  Before all blathering and joy and despondence, I will take a look at the truth about immigration.  This may take more than a few blogs.  First, we are a nation of immigrants, that and seventy five cents will get you a doughnut.  Immigration policy from when sea pirates started to decimate the indigenous population of North America was designed to grab the land by filling it with Europeans.  That policy continued into the early twentieth century to populate the country and continued  after every square inch  the territory of the United States had been legally acquired by individuals or the government.  There has been little change in immigration policy even though we have plenty of people.  The politicians and the business leaders who own them apparently think we still do not have enough people.  I won't go into the minutia of the immigration laws sufficing to say that they define the word "incoherent".  Patched together to meet various interest group needs, lightly enforced, and mostly detrimental to goals of a rational immigration policy.  See part II.   
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