We live in a society that is more free then in days past, yet remnants of the old Feudalism system still remain today. A very small percent of the population still owns a disproportionate amount of both wealth and power, and their children inherit a disproportionate amount of that wealth and power.

The facts of the matter are this: poor people become poorer over time, because the cost of their lifestyle is greater then their value, or the potential of their earnings. In other words, this Feudalism derived system makes it hard for poor people to create wealth because they are constantly in debt to their own survival. These are the class of people who must first WORK TO SURVIVE and who have little or nothing left over to invest afterward. It’s not just the poor, most middle class in this country are victims to this trap as well, they don’t realize it but generation after generation they are becoming poorer.

The problem is not that some have more then others. The problem is the de-stabilizing effect of an ever increasing debt of existence.

What happens when poor people suffer a hardship, like being fired? They struggle to get back into the position they were in before (all work until death, no gain in wealth) or are forced to go without food, clothing, shelter and access to medical care; as a result, their value in society only remains stagnant or goes down (hungry/injured/tired workers are less productive) until the debt/survival ratio becomes un-sustainable. At which point, any number of bad things tends happens, both to the individual and to the rest of society.

What happens when rich people suffer a similar hardship? Very very few will drop down a rung in society; most will stimulate the economy with increased consumption of expensive luxuries to get over it, OR they make relationships with other rich people as part of the recovery process and get access to even more opportunities. This stimulates the economy in the short term, and effectively amounts to no net loss of personal wealth and sometimes acts as a catalyst for net gain of personal wealth.

Do you see the difference wealth creates? Wealth is a buffer, a stabilizer, that affords greater wealth.

100% access to little things, like electricity, housing, food, clothing, and medicine, is what allows rich people the time to make investments in themselves, and thus become richer. Poor people struggle to meet these basic necessities, and where they fall short they loose access to opportunity and thus can never become rich as long as they are vulnerable to the very things rich people are immune.

The point of “redistribution” is to create opportunities for the majority that are otherwise only available to the rich; feudal lords kept their peasants poor and ignorant, much as the rich of today keep the middle and lower classes in ignorance of even their own value in the jobs they work and the economy as a whole.

The truth is, there is enough wealth in this country that everyone can be rich, no one needs to be in poverty. Poverty serves no purpose in society, neither for the rich nor for the majority.

When all the basic needs of survival are met only then can individuals evolve, and by doing so they naturally tend to create wealth for themselves; they educate themselves, start businesses, invest in retirement plans. By virtue of creating opportunity through wealth redistribution, a significantly larger portion of the population can lift themselves out of serfdom (lower/middle class) by creating wealth for themselves as individuals. This has a profoundly positive effect on the economy not only because of reduced crime and more individuals have access to more wealth and thus spend more, but because whole industries can be created practically over night as more valued workers enter the market place.

The point is not to pay for poor peoples existence outright generation after generation, the point is to extend the same leverage of existence the rich have so poor people can rise out of serfdom. No one benefits by allowing poor people to continue to fall victim to helplessness, addiction and crime, the same as it’s been for thousands of years. However, even the already rich can benefit from a flood of educated workers, workers who can afford to invest in themselves by making themselves more valuable rather then be criticized for failing to meet the basic needs of survival.

I want to translate thought into action. I want to think fluid, like language, and command clearly and efficiently; not chopped, not broken, not fragmented.

I think I see one way how. It is technical, it is difficult to imagine sometimes. It is a toolkit.

An expanding array of patterns. A way of thinking, or perhaps remembering thought as a command and creating shortcuts. Tools designed to perform specific tasks.

Shortcuts in logic, shortcuts in thinking to make purpose driven commands without user attention to minutia. Long, sinewy threads of thought; stacks of logic, user built.

Begin with purpose, what am I doing?

• Expand
  • Easily, in decisive strokes. Push a button and go forward.
  • Exponentially, effecting all relations.
• Review
  • Measurements and rules.
  • Periods and checks.
  • Markers and tasks.
• Update
  • Validation
  • Single item pin-points, and simple calculations.
• Negotiate
  • Values assessed in currency and trade.
  • Rates of trade, trade for currency.
  • Statements, charts, comparisons, to make decisions and evaluate trends

A crystal expands in an interesting pattern. That’s how my brain feels sometimes. Fragmented, glued together by grand illusion only waiting for a bump to shatter completely.

Modern Abstract Watercolor by Mac Jamison Key West

Melody by Helen Malcolm

Axiom of Evil by Jeff Jagunich

I like to sit in, though currently I don’t have time to commit to any classes. I do wish I could be working more with clay though.

I like to paint with my woman. She gets frustrated quickly but she has some great starts. I don’t often start well, but I love to develop a concept to fruition… or destruction.

Work is a bitch. It’s tough to re-invent a style and learn a new language. It’s like breaking a collar bone, selling a dirt-bike, and pumping iron after months of dis-use. Actually, Python is rather easy. It’s an old friend I somehow forgot to meet.

I’ve never broken any bones in my life before. I’m thankful for that. I’m thankful my life is rich with experience. Someday, I’ll be content as a starving artist, but for now I struggle with divided time and energy. I won’t be poor all my life.

Is it better for every fiber of your being to be pulled taught like a piano string, or to have your consciousness drown in a sea of concentration? I’ve experienced both in my life and can’t figure out which I prefer.

When at the height of my fitness level the bottoms of my feet develop steel cables and my bones become tender. I feel strong, virile at all times. I awake well refreshed, focused, driven. Power seems to surround me, pick me up, and move my body at my own whim; yet small muscles are prone to cramp like a vice in the span of months. I wonder if the trick to it is to study the effect of seasons on the human body.

If I had only one wish, I’d wish for three wishes. Peace in heart, mind and body. Love in spirit, truth and abundance… And infinite wishes.

She knew in her 2nd trimester that her fetus had Downs and choose to keep it anyway. Her body, her choice. But as typical with the Pro-Life crowd..they are all about birthing but once they are born ..Oh What to do? What to do?? Oh wait.. I can run for VP and escape my Maternal responsibilities for the next 4 months. and maybe 4 years …

So much for her being in with the “family values”…

and I still cannot understand those Pro-”LIFERS” that are also Pro-Death penalty. Once again..its all about giving birth but nothing about what happens after that cord is cut. If you are PRO-LIFE ..doesn’t that mean Cradle to grave???

FYI, she’s a fellow web-guru, runs her own internet business called OMGoddess.

My soon to be new home seems promising, a happier place and a growth step. I purposefully chose who I’m to live with. This time I want more control over how I live at home, more decisions to make and more responsibility.

I want to feel equal with another human being. Hopefully I won’t become a tyrant.

I’ll get a kitten, during the day I’ll be home alone and the kitchen will be mine.

Little pleasures will abound.

I enjoy basking in warmth.

Always remember friendship. It’s the thing you long for most when facing dark places.

Any person who lies awake at night worrying about the private pleasures of other consenting adults has more than just too much time on his hands; he has some unjustifiable beliefs about the nature of right and wrong.

I think I may need to place greater emphasis on this quote, it illustrates one my biggest problems with society.

This section may soon be expunged of all of my photography and become strictly a journal, except when I make a long written entry attached to a photo. By doing this I can add my photographs to my site easier and you can more easily explore all my pieces.

The photos in the new photography section are organized in two ways: from the initial load on the front page, they’re all connected in order by date through the arrows which appear as you hover over an image. There’s an archives section which will display all the images as click-able smaller versions. Within this archives section I’ve added “tags” - word/phrase based groupings - such as black-and-white and color. Tags can be clicked to view images which fit only within that word/phrase based group. Here are a few favorites of mine, both new and old, now featured in the art photography section:

You can also leave comments on a photo as well. Right now, the page is designed to hide the comments panel unless you click on the tiny “Details” link just below a full size image; when clicked, the panel expands below the image. Within that panel is my image title and a brief description and a space where you can leave comments.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority”, the “silent majority”, is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up , because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it - and send it on.

My grandmother sent this to me in an email. I imagine it’s been spread around pretty good already, and surely creative license was used to make the argument seem more compelling - the whole “German friend” story-time appeal is unnecessary - but the argument is worth attention. Reminds me of a book I’m borrowing from a friend.