Good morning, folks! It is Tuesday, 6 September 2022, and I have to run to the computer store later to buy a new UPS. Looks like one of my smaller UPSs has given up the ghost, so later this morning, I’ll be running to the computer store and will hopefully avoid any unnecessary impulse purchases, and history has demonstrated that I’m not always too good at that…
… Hey, that’s shiney!
I go into a computer store and I turn into Doug the Dog from the Pixar movie, “Up!”.
“Squirrel!”
I was pondering a conversation I had with a dear friend when we first met. We were talking about political ideology, and this person admitted to me that they were a “Star Trek Socialist”.
I’ll be the first person to admit that the word “socialist” hasn’t always hit me right, but in our society, we have a lot more social programs and subsections in our society that are very close to socialist in their structure and distribution of resources. Some rural communities go out of their way to check on each other and make sure that folks have enough to survive. That starts out small, but also goes to the very top with the farm subsidies that the federal government distributes. We have Medicare and Medicaid programs for the elderly and poor. Even big energy companies receive a hefty chunk of funds to keep fuel prices down.
I sometimes think that the words “socialist” and “socialism” have been demonized by some folks for pure ideological reasons. The concept of sharing is generally cast aside by those that “have” and don’t want to share with the “have nots”. Oh, they’re generally fine with selling to the “have nots”… but that requires having goods or funds to exchange.
Right now, in America, the “haves” really don’t give a rat’s ass about the “have nots”.
Maybe I should distinguish that there are more than one kind of “haves”. There’s the “have some”, “have much”, and the “have most” subgroups. Some folks within each group do share. Others think that life is all about dying with the most toys.
Reminds me of an episode of Star Trek.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
