Political Humor: A semi-farcical look at winning the war in Afghanistan and saving Pakistan, which might work

We'll never win in Afghanistan by fighting. But why is that? Well, it's complicated. But one thing we can do to help our cause is save Pakistan. It is the real problem, at least for now. And right now, a quarter of the country is underwater. Yet the citizens trust the Taliban more than they trust us. So WE should be there providing rescue, aid, security and protection.

I figure. We'd look better in the eyes of the Pakistani civilians, who as I said don't trust us, due to the fact the we are so buddy-buddy with India. The end result of this equation is a citizenry and a government who give aid to the Taliban.

Well, we need an answer. Fix Pakistan, which makes the Taliban look like big jerks for not saving lives. And that helps cut the money flow to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Hooray us.

If the President wanted to do it in one of those dramatic "Great American Idealism Speeches." He could call a temporary armistice, and send in troops as relief workers to Afghanistan. And say something like, "Sometimes the call to save lives trumps the call to fight over a nation. Today we are brothers and sister United for the common good." And everyone waves little American flags as we save lives with our superior technology and organizational skills. (That is, if we still have them.)

And then we build a government based on our glorious influence as rescuers. Okay, we win. Let's put on big Teddy Roosevelt smiles and go back to feeling good about ourselves.

HootSuite

HootSuite, it's tasty. I used TweetDeck for about a day and went, blah, whatever, but HootSuite I like it a whole lot more. For example, it Plugs in to Google Analytics, bonus. And most importantly, it's visually appealing. On another note, I finally got around to making a QR Code business card/VCard. Yeah Technology.

Tumblr...

Well I took the plunge and got Tumblr. It's like MySpace but it doesn't suck... so far. I also took the time to integrate all my media, crap I'm late for work.

Does the culture marginalize the poor and technologically illiterate. And why?

I'm looking at how in our society, where things are driven by consumerism, there are subconscious effects left on the populace. I was always wondering why there seemed to be a development of inferiority complexes among students and even adults, whereas in areas such as New York or Philadelphia, this does not occur. So I've been postulating ideas off of this.

I think it comes down to culture and money. I'll start with money. In areas of greater economic wealth there seems to be more of an equilibrium. Everybody has exactly what everybody else has and therefore less people fall victim to feelings of economic inferiority, which is something I see a great deal of in rural communities. This economic inferiority complex has a greatly negative backlash effect in that those with money begin to act with arrogance and superiority, little aristocracies begin to form. So I wonder if this is a subconscious behavior or if these behaviors are actively executed? In essence, do people subconsciously embrace elitism and aristocracy?

What I'm talking about is the sections of America that cannot afford products that are conducive to communication and therefore fall victim to being blocked out of these points of access to the culture. This is where I see an issue. A subconscious inferiority complex forms among them, and these people are seen as less valid to the culture. They are also ridiculed by the culture. This is why we use words like Rednecks, mountain-folk and ghetto trash.

Thus, I think that certain elements of technology should be universal, especially internet access. The grid should be available for everyone, seeing as it is an information resource. Of course there's no way anyone would pay for it, especially when people these days have been talking about having government do less for the less.

Yet, it advances the culture. I'm not a socialist, seeing as I don't see the possibility of economic equality. I know people will always want to find way to make more money than someone else. However I do believe in meritocratic equality, which means everybody gets a fair chance and then they are given the ability to advance based on their own drive. Thus, I figure that there is no reason to push people out based on their lack of access to the culture. We could be losing great minds.

And that is the danger of building aristocracies and systems of elitism. We push the potentially brilliant out.



In order to further make the point, it would seem high technology or gadgetry has become a rat race fetish. And those restricted from the technologies, possibly through a lack of finances, are pushed out of the system due to their proverbial loss in the rat race. They are seen as the losers. And they show signs of having an economic inferiority complex as a result. Whereas the members of the society that can afford said technologies are seen as the winners. And they often act as aristocrats as a result.

In the past, much of the technology that was more expensive, was more expensive due to higher quality. However, now we live in a world were most goods are made in low cost factories. As a result, higher price is now a result of more complicated technology being added into the product. Basically, everything is cheap now. And it is the rat race mentality that is the only thing supporting the artificial inflation in price.

So really, our society is just living in a delusion where people are hurting each other through what products they can afford. They are lulled into this system of elitism that has been in existence from a time when products actually had quality. But today, most products are truly valued at next to nothing.

Let's Be a Democracy Again!

I think it's we become a Democracy again. It's time to rebuild. It's time to start talking again. I've decided to work for getting people to do this. I've decided to work for getting people thinking about big things again. I see how our culture has fallen apart since then. Thus, it's time for all of us to rebuild. This is about more than social justice and fighting against corporate power, it's about getting back our culture of teamwork, unity and respect for each other. My generation has to pick up the torch. So I'm going to start.