Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Some changes:

The greatest absurdity of our age is that we have a news media that is entirely owned by billionaires. To increase the diversity of opinions, we should have some organizations that are funded by tax dollars that are supposed to be "biased" in different directions than the corporate media. The main result of this would be that to some extent we'd go in a socialist direction. More laws regulating business, more worker protections, shorter work hours, less pollution, actual unions, protectionism at times, more breaking up of monopolies, greatly increase taxes, etc.

Additionally:

1. Laws to give us some actual communities. For example, make it such that people can't spend all day in their car, instead put things within walking distance. In general, just actually think about the concept of community and make laws that will increase the amount of interaction we have with the people who actually live around us. Currently we have isolation, little reason to interact, and not much reason at all to give a crap about others. Greatly decreasing our use of cars is also important to reduce our dependency on the oil of slave dictatorships, and to reduce pollution.

2. Universal health care and close down the slow suicide restaurants. Regulate the food industry much closer. For example, make trans fat illegal, better investigation of plastics leaching into foods/liquids, etc.

3. Actually regulate the pharmaceutical industry. No new drugs unless they actually are shown to be beneficial. Regulate their excessive profits also. Possibly just nationalize the whole industry.

4. Quit the subsidies that have artificially deflated the cost of meat. Also get rid of factory farming conditions, (the crowding, the routine hormones and antibiotics, etc.)

5. The truth will be learned about imperialism and it will be stopped. Whether it be by the structural adjustment programs/austerity measures of the international monetary fund/world bank or the CIA funneling weapons, etc to rightwing factions. Such will be stopped. As will support of any dictatorships.

6. Quit being friendly with nations that treat women like cattle. Instead economic sanctions, and probably more.

7. Regulation of reproduction. You've got dumbasses who have 6 welfare kids and apparently the only alternative is a majority that tries to stop the eccentric from having any. No, it is actually possible to do something inbetween these two absurd extremes. It may piss people off, but you can have chaos or you can have civilization. Laws are the basis of civilization. Without laws you have chaos. The ultimate result of chaos is a moon landscape. If instead you want civilization, quit acting like a child who doesn't want to go to bed every time you hear of a law you don't want to obey.

8. Get rid of the one size fits all approach in education. For each subject you instead go at whatever pace fits the child. Get teachers who have actual degrees in real subjects, not just "teaching degrees". Give them more money and raise the standards of who can be a teacher. And then, give them more power. Make school something other than a holding pen. Fail more children. More discipline of children. Less fear of the backlash from the parent who is usually as big a dumbass as their stupid, rude child.

9. Nationalize college. Make it free and not for profit. And make less of it. Too many people are going to college. Instead more vocational schools training you for a very specific job where the job is all lined up for you, provided you finish the schooling. College has become too much of a big business. Too many unemployed people have degrees and owe tens of thousands in college loans.

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