Zoinks!
Awfully sorry about the lack of updates this past week.
I pulled another marathon week at the old lithography mill. We're doing work for Analog Devices.
I think that all I would post has already been said by others far more eloquently than I could ever hope.
One new and noteworthy item is that the DNC gave Kerry a far bigger boost in the polls than I would have thought...Actually, I did have that thought :)
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The only other item is one of a personal nature. An emailer asked me about my political philosophy.
In the interest of full disclosure, here it is:
Ideologically, I am an anarchist on the order of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. However, pragmatism trumps ideology in my case. Hence by practice I am somewhere in the liberal/libertarian sphere. This is not the neo-liberalism as evidenced by current trade policies which have done nothing to empower the third world. It can easily be shown that neo-liberal policies have been repressive and in fact have insured that the poor remain so..Or that their situations even worsen.
I'll expound on this in the near future.
One final note. I was in Boston during the past week, and whilst I noticed a increased police presence, this may be due the fact that I was conditioned to notice their increased presence. The big media tells us what to think about. They tell us what's important to their interests. Security issues are big news events in the post 9-11 world. The media insures that this remains so.
Corporate/government media(propaganda?) doesn't always tell us how to think, but they do tell us what to think about. The jump to the manipulation of how we think about issues is easily breached. We are indoctrinated at a young age, and fed a steady diet of half-truths, untruths and other assorted distortions. We are raised to be manipulated.
I pulled another marathon week at the old lithography mill. We're doing work for Analog Devices.
I think that all I would post has already been said by others far more eloquently than I could ever hope.
One new and noteworthy item is that the DNC gave Kerry a far bigger boost in the polls than I would have thought...Actually, I did have that thought :)
********************************************
The only other item is one of a personal nature. An emailer asked me about my political philosophy.
In the interest of full disclosure, here it is:
Ideologically, I am an anarchist on the order of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. However, pragmatism trumps ideology in my case. Hence by practice I am somewhere in the liberal/libertarian sphere. This is not the neo-liberalism as evidenced by current trade policies which have done nothing to empower the third world. It can easily be shown that neo-liberal policies have been repressive and in fact have insured that the poor remain so..Or that their situations even worsen.
I'll expound on this in the near future.
One final note. I was in Boston during the past week, and whilst I noticed a increased police presence, this may be due the fact that I was conditioned to notice their increased presence. The big media tells us what to think about. They tell us what's important to their interests. Security issues are big news events in the post 9-11 world. The media insures that this remains so.
Corporate/government media(propaganda?) doesn't always tell us how to think, but they do tell us what to think about. The jump to the manipulation of how we think about issues is easily breached. We are indoctrinated at a young age, and fed a steady diet of half-truths, untruths and other assorted distortions. We are raised to be manipulated.
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