Schwerpunkt: Jagdpanzer
Another day, another holler. (holla-back!)
Your pulp noir serialized epic has been delayed today in favor or more random mutterings and posing from your friendly annoucer, myself. To those of you who are waiting with baited breath to read the next tale of derring-do, fear not, we will return to Madame Venga's anon.
What's important?
(a question so rife with meaning that it deserves, nay rather say DEMANDS, a full 8 lines of its own)
Really, what is important? There are a lot of things, you think, but how many of them are really important, and how many are things that we are told are important, and how many are simply just not?
People are important, I think, but then it comes down to 'which people?'. Well, there are certainly people who are important to ME. And really, if you think about it, everything that's important is relative to the person answering, right? I mean, water is important to someone in a desert, but not necessarily to the man drowning in the lake... or at least its important in a different way. :)
But back to the question: There are people that are important to me. Many of them in different ways, some in all ways.
What else? Things? Some things are important to me, but they're not really important, they just mean things to me that remind me of important things.
I'm losing my train of thought here. This thread came about because of a conversation Madraxus and I had while he was giving me a ride home, about government and the legislature in particular. And he was saying that maybe running the govt. like a business would be a good thing to try, and I was saying that the legislature would never allow it, no matter what the president wanted.
I mean, we could elect Bobbi Stars-in-her-Eyes, (yes, fictional person) who is everything that government is currently not, and she could decide to make sweeping changes, and she could be charismatic and independant and enough of a workhorse to set everything in motion. And she could maybe even get a significant portion of the population behind her, say as much as 90%, an absolutely ridiculous number.
But, do you think that she could get anything done? I mean, would the senate and the house REALLY be willing to give up their pork?
To some extent pork is a fact of life, and a good one. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, a pork barrel project is thus: Senator Dingo's Kidneys (also fictional) from Nevada hears that people are currently in favor of, say, wetland restoration. So he proposes a bill that will put up a bunch of funds and assets to promote wetlands restoraion, but he makes sure that the assets used, and therefore the workforce hired, is from Nevada. Therefore, money flows into Nevada, it pulls people off the Nevada unemployment line, and generally is just happy for Nevada in general. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, the people of Nevada elected good old Senator Kidneys because they wanted him to represent THEM in the Senate, so why would they want him to send money to some other state? And it's not that he's being sneaky and underhanded, he's trying to help out his peeps.
Where it gets into trouble is thus: Lets say all of the wetlands being restored are in, say, Maine. If he still pushes for Nevada assets, then we have a problem. AND, there are sneaky and underhanded ways that Sen. Kidneys (R-Nev) can buy some pork.
So, the way this all ties into the previous wierdness is - What is important? to everyone? Is there something that these senators lose along the way to their posts? Is there something big that us non-senators just don't see? But why is it that they would hamper the efficiency of the whole govt. in order to bring some money into their state in the hopes of being reelected? Is it because if they didn't, we would vote them out because WE don't know what's important?
But in order to figure it all out, (and I'm having a wicked time trying to wrap my brain around it) I have to know what's important in the first place, and hopefully some things that EVERYone thinks are important.
So if you have a moment, post me a few things you think are important to as many people as possible, and we'll discuss.
If the thread gets too long, i'll post an 'end' message and post a reprise in a new journal entry so we don't have to keep scrolling back further and further to read it.
Lucael
Your pulp noir serialized epic has been delayed today in favor or more random mutterings and posing from your friendly annoucer, myself. To those of you who are waiting with baited breath to read the next tale of derring-do, fear not, we will return to Madame Venga's anon.
What's important?
(a question so rife with meaning that it deserves, nay rather say DEMANDS, a full 8 lines of its own)
Really, what is important? There are a lot of things, you think, but how many of them are really important, and how many are things that we are told are important, and how many are simply just not?
People are important, I think, but then it comes down to 'which people?'. Well, there are certainly people who are important to ME. And really, if you think about it, everything that's important is relative to the person answering, right? I mean, water is important to someone in a desert, but not necessarily to the man drowning in the lake... or at least its important in a different way. :)
But back to the question: There are people that are important to me. Many of them in different ways, some in all ways.
What else? Things? Some things are important to me, but they're not really important, they just mean things to me that remind me of important things.
I'm losing my train of thought here. This thread came about because of a conversation Madraxus and I had while he was giving me a ride home, about government and the legislature in particular. And he was saying that maybe running the govt. like a business would be a good thing to try, and I was saying that the legislature would never allow it, no matter what the president wanted.
I mean, we could elect Bobbi Stars-in-her-Eyes, (yes, fictional person) who is everything that government is currently not, and she could decide to make sweeping changes, and she could be charismatic and independant and enough of a workhorse to set everything in motion. And she could maybe even get a significant portion of the population behind her, say as much as 90%, an absolutely ridiculous number.
But, do you think that she could get anything done? I mean, would the senate and the house REALLY be willing to give up their pork?
To some extent pork is a fact of life, and a good one. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, a pork barrel project is thus: Senator Dingo's Kidneys (also fictional) from Nevada hears that people are currently in favor of, say, wetland restoration. So he proposes a bill that will put up a bunch of funds and assets to promote wetlands restoraion, but he makes sure that the assets used, and therefore the workforce hired, is from Nevada. Therefore, money flows into Nevada, it pulls people off the Nevada unemployment line, and generally is just happy for Nevada in general. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, the people of Nevada elected good old Senator Kidneys because they wanted him to represent THEM in the Senate, so why would they want him to send money to some other state? And it's not that he's being sneaky and underhanded, he's trying to help out his peeps.
Where it gets into trouble is thus: Lets say all of the wetlands being restored are in, say, Maine. If he still pushes for Nevada assets, then we have a problem. AND, there are sneaky and underhanded ways that Sen. Kidneys (R-Nev) can buy some pork.
So, the way this all ties into the previous wierdness is - What is important? to everyone? Is there something that these senators lose along the way to their posts? Is there something big that us non-senators just don't see? But why is it that they would hamper the efficiency of the whole govt. in order to bring some money into their state in the hopes of being reelected? Is it because if they didn't, we would vote them out because WE don't know what's important?
But in order to figure it all out, (and I'm having a wicked time trying to wrap my brain around it) I have to know what's important in the first place, and hopefully some things that EVERYone thinks are important.
So if you have a moment, post me a few things you think are important to as many people as possible, and we'll discuss.
If the thread gets too long, i'll post an 'end' message and post a reprise in a new journal entry so we don't have to keep scrolling back further and further to read it.
Lucael