Ashslye
21st August 2007, 07:04
Hello,
I'm not very used to the alter ego of the internet, though I do have an alias which is Thomas Ninh. I write poetry, draw, and play video games. I'm currently enrolled in my second semester of college. I'm 28 years old. Moved to Italy when I was 16, left home, went to Santiago Chile for a month, came back to U.S. and had some really rough times. I haven't really been active on the internet since 96 or so.
I don't know a lot about politics to tell you the truth. I pretty much fly by the seat of my pants most of the time. I think politics are very important. I think a sense of national identity is important at least in the sense that you know what is going on in your own country. When I was 16 an Italian citizen showed me that he knew more trivia about my country than I did. I wasn't insulted by it, it just confirmed what I already thought. U.S. education is shit, and it's shit for a reason. I learned about Eli Whitney, and Pemican in about 4 different history courses. My teachers were obviously not valued socially or economically very much and it showed. My Dad sacrificed everything about himself to become a provider, and my mom never got to find out who she might like to be.
I like the idea of Communism, socialism very much. I need to study various forms of it in action. I met a Czech woman in Italy who said that she didn't like living in the USSR because most of the products were the same. There wasn't a lot of variety. I know little about Cuba, and sometimes assume that no truth can be told about it while not living there. I had an Italian friend who vacationed there. He loved it.
I am pretty much an Anarchist at heart, which I've seen lumped into the Conservative side of things amazingly enough...small government but here's homeland security!...cock asses...and sometimes I may appear to argue against some leftist philosophies, but believe me, I am always trying to make things better for the left. I think that one of our strengths is our ability to think for ourselves, but I also see too much unproductive argument, (not meaning in this forum). I think if you are "liberal" then you should not condemn the victims of the very system we hope to change. If you want better education then be a teacher. If you want things to be the best they can truly be then remember to be open minded.
I think I just consider Republicans, Capitalists, to be retarded children. I disagree with Freud, and Bernays in that human beings can't control themselves. If this were true, why did they support anything at all?
For the most part I'm jaded, pissed off, and missing the people, ideology, and lifestyle I once knew. I heard the poorest or the poor almost quote Marx in saying that, "I think people should be able to do what they really want to do. What they are good at." At times I'm kind of unsettled at philosophers and other good people for not eating the problem from the inside out. Philosophers articulate what people already think. It's great, but the statement that "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." has two sides.
On the other hand I don't think we need to lose the objective to the fray. It's not for everyone. Art and philosophy are important, and I think they need their field to be properly recognized. Like Nietzsche being associated with Nazis when he may have actually been talking about the same thing as Maslow's aggridant gene. So there we have a conflict with some parts of individualism and communism...what are you really geared for? Nature vs Nurture, how do we deal with the asshole? Did Asian values of honor work? Does the immediate reality of Communism work? What regulates population control? Pain, and emotion are valuable to me. Denial is my enemy.
Despite the problems the people I have known have had I still believe in what they said. What I used to believe until I learned the art of hating yourself enough to levitate by your own boot straps. I believe in the people that helped me, and myself. When help was given to me I could not believe that I deserved it. It mattered a lot to me. If my own reaction is shared by others then I know it's worth it.
I support the complete and total obliteration of any system that perpetuates the loss of human relation.
Thanks very much for being here.
I'm not very used to the alter ego of the internet, though I do have an alias which is Thomas Ninh. I write poetry, draw, and play video games. I'm currently enrolled in my second semester of college. I'm 28 years old. Moved to Italy when I was 16, left home, went to Santiago Chile for a month, came back to U.S. and had some really rough times. I haven't really been active on the internet since 96 or so.
I don't know a lot about politics to tell you the truth. I pretty much fly by the seat of my pants most of the time. I think politics are very important. I think a sense of national identity is important at least in the sense that you know what is going on in your own country. When I was 16 an Italian citizen showed me that he knew more trivia about my country than I did. I wasn't insulted by it, it just confirmed what I already thought. U.S. education is shit, and it's shit for a reason. I learned about Eli Whitney, and Pemican in about 4 different history courses. My teachers were obviously not valued socially or economically very much and it showed. My Dad sacrificed everything about himself to become a provider, and my mom never got to find out who she might like to be.
I like the idea of Communism, socialism very much. I need to study various forms of it in action. I met a Czech woman in Italy who said that she didn't like living in the USSR because most of the products were the same. There wasn't a lot of variety. I know little about Cuba, and sometimes assume that no truth can be told about it while not living there. I had an Italian friend who vacationed there. He loved it.
I am pretty much an Anarchist at heart, which I've seen lumped into the Conservative side of things amazingly enough...small government but here's homeland security!...cock asses...and sometimes I may appear to argue against some leftist philosophies, but believe me, I am always trying to make things better for the left. I think that one of our strengths is our ability to think for ourselves, but I also see too much unproductive argument, (not meaning in this forum). I think if you are "liberal" then you should not condemn the victims of the very system we hope to change. If you want better education then be a teacher. If you want things to be the best they can truly be then remember to be open minded.
I think I just consider Republicans, Capitalists, to be retarded children. I disagree with Freud, and Bernays in that human beings can't control themselves. If this were true, why did they support anything at all?
For the most part I'm jaded, pissed off, and missing the people, ideology, and lifestyle I once knew. I heard the poorest or the poor almost quote Marx in saying that, "I think people should be able to do what they really want to do. What they are good at." At times I'm kind of unsettled at philosophers and other good people for not eating the problem from the inside out. Philosophers articulate what people already think. It's great, but the statement that "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." has two sides.
On the other hand I don't think we need to lose the objective to the fray. It's not for everyone. Art and philosophy are important, and I think they need their field to be properly recognized. Like Nietzsche being associated with Nazis when he may have actually been talking about the same thing as Maslow's aggridant gene. So there we have a conflict with some parts of individualism and communism...what are you really geared for? Nature vs Nurture, how do we deal with the asshole? Did Asian values of honor work? Does the immediate reality of Communism work? What regulates population control? Pain, and emotion are valuable to me. Denial is my enemy.
Despite the problems the people I have known have had I still believe in what they said. What I used to believe until I learned the art of hating yourself enough to levitate by your own boot straps. I believe in the people that helped me, and myself. When help was given to me I could not believe that I deserved it. It mattered a lot to me. If my own reaction is shared by others then I know it's worth it.
I support the complete and total obliteration of any system that perpetuates the loss of human relation.
Thanks very much for being here.