Easy Things, Simple

From MLW

A lot of people say I’m confusing, and at least one reason is easy problems are no fun… once it’s easy, why bother. Well, I do know reasons to bother with them, so here are some easy things:

Health Care: we should have nationalized health care.

Drug War: There is no drug war… drugs should be legal along with medical care.

Abortion: Abortion is a serious and grave personal decision, as is the decision to have open heart surgery. Its also a medical decision for a person to ultimately make for themselves on consultation with a doctor.

Guns, War and the Military: I will not say that military is necessary in the world, but right now, the power of the world is still in GUNS. That’s just a fact of life.  As for war, all war involves war crimes, which are some of the most horrific crimes known to humanity, and should only be undertaken fully realizing the crime one has willfully endeavored to engage in.  The “noble purpose” is soiled, at best, and better be very important… in short the enemy really better be a hitler.

Libraries: are good things, lets have lots of them and fund them really well…

Education: I think it is good for parents to have choices about schooling, what school their child attends. I also think that school districts should have to support home schoolers… yes this is simple.

Socialism: We all support socialism to some degree… a catch all often being police, most people understand why we should not have a privatized police force, but instead have a socialized one (well, on paper).

Borders: We need a world where there are borders, to enable regulation, e.g. regulating the bringing of fruit into California, but the borders ought to be super permeable, like, “sign this guest book” permeable.

Free Trade: This would be good except that it’s not so much about freedom at the moment, but about treating parts of the world like slaves. Still, in the long run I imagine a freely traveled world, and that would include trade. However, when the world is normalized with respect to labor costs a bit more, it won’t make sense to ship cheap goods from halfway around the world, and we will have by then a return of local production.

Government: There isn’t any government. Government is dead. No one governs us. The shadow plays on the cave wall still, but Government is dead.  What there really is, is Common Infrastructure, and an organization to manage it using democratic input from the members of the common.

Technology and the Environment: Technology can be green. The use of poisonous technology is primarily a problem due to people that actually want to harm the environment… other than that, we can always green our technology. Biology is an evolution driven technology, and it is, obviously, “green”… so I take it as clear enough that the rest of our technology can be clean… it can clean our water, it can make healthy food.  The fact that we don’t use such technologies is a choice… and amazingly enough, due to a desire to control, oppress, and ultimately harm the environment as a misguided display of power.

What’s difficult is how are a bunch of dogmatists in this world going to make it to the liberating reflection which exemplifies our future era?