Tuesday, February 10, 2004

apparently i dont "update enough"
so go here and look at this.

i think it would be funny to go offroading in a metro bus. i bet that would last all of about 5 minutes.

i'm going to make a baja-bug out of one of the new beetles. its going to be awesome.

I'm totally going to trade in my 1992 cadillac eldorado for a dune buggy. you never see random dudes driving around seattle in dune buggys. that is about to change dammit.

someone bring me milkshakes ... to my work. there is a serious milkshake famine going on here.

alternately
i watched JFK again over the weekend. that movie will blow your mind. of course it's just a cunning disinformation campaign funded by the CIA and sold to you by Oliver Stone, but it's still damn fine cinema.

the explanation behind the kennedy assassination conspiracy (in the movie anyway, so take it with a grain of salt) is that the miliatry apparatus in this country was stopping him from "changing things." (remember, the folks at the FBI, CIA, Office of Naval Intelligence, etc etc are all unelected officials controlled by the pentagon, ie; by the military, not the elected government.) They were pissed because Kennedy refused to invade Cuba and was planning on pulling out of Vietnam--obviously this is bad news for the military and their sub contractors. I thought that was pretty interesting so I did a little google searching and found something I had never even heard of: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World. It was presented in New York CIty on September 25, 1961 by president Kennedy and called for all the nations of the UN to begin the process of weapons reductions and the turn over of military power to the UN only to be used as a peace keeping force. the strange thing about this program is that it is still currently 'official' US policy to pursue it.

now, obviously there are a lot of people in this country who think this is a terrible idea. the "god, guns and guts are what made america free" crowd, if you will. basically anyone who subscribes to the idea that ultimate military power is the only way to maintain order ... or whatever other justification you want to place on "supreme military power." Communism and all of its other overtly Socialist governmental incarnations have proven not to work. But, in my opinion, Karl Marx was right about one thing: capitalism must eventually fail because of the unbridgeable gap between labor and capital. as industry, the population and consumption increase the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. this is something i think kennedy saw as a very broad problem. capitalism will not fail within america, it will fail once the planet can no longer support its population. the gap between the strong and the weak will continue to widen until, eventually, the strong will no loner be able to maintain their level of strength, wealth and consumption causing the balance of the world to fall apart. is american imperialism going to fix that? i guess kennedy didnt think so and saw the beginning of the answer as world diplomacy. once you take away every individual countries ability to pick fights without the consent of a majority of the rest, what other route does one have to take but to negotiate?

"Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind."

this was really nerdy.