I enjoy ranting my thoughts onto this site.

Here's a metaphor that explains the whole thing that's wrong with our country.. assuming that I'm a decent mechanic I know how cars work I can take apart my car, spread the pieces all over the driveway, then put it back together, turn the switch and it'll turn back on..

 if I cut a dog into little pieces spreading its parts out across the driveway and I'm a really competent surgeon and I know exactly how to reattach all those pieces And I put them back together he's not gonna bark at me. 

There's something fundamentally different between machines and life and we are running our society as if we are pieces of the machine and is if the world is machine and what we create from that is a world in a sense based on the notion that we are and can operate separately

and from that we create education based on the notion that we are separate and we honor and enforce independence and competition 

we create our business environment based on the idea of scarcity and competition and 

our towns and cities are all based on the idea of separation and so we fashion a world on the idea of needing to be significant at someone else's expense..that's pretty much the message  I got to the kid that you need to separate yourself from the pack  in order to be number one and win. We feel we exist fundamentally as singular individuals and only secondarily as social beings. This tends to create separations. It separates you. It tries to make you passive and apathetic. As far as the political system is concerned, It is active as a maximizer of consumption. Our job is not to be a citizen, It is to be a consumer ..this was the great mantra after 9/11, go out and shop.  I think one of the fundamental messages in the marketing scheme of the American Machine Is that wealth and happiness are synonyms. If you want happiness you have to have wealth and you have to buy stuff you know? own lots of stuff. This just simply isn't true. It couldn't be further from the truth actually. Happiness is related loosely to meeting your financial NEEDS but after that it's all the same rodeo. Relationships are the fundamental building blocks of happiness. Like I always say, the richest people in the world aren't those who have the most, it's those who need the least.