listening to the Velvet Underground makes me think about how odd my life has been

Jul 18, 2005 13:21

I lived on the east coast, in Western American, and Middle America. I've lived in a minivan to protest capitalism and voted Republican. I've spent entire summers watching television, and others catching rattlesnakes and riding a bike hundreds of miles. I've loved women, I've hated women. I've been cold, I've been hot. I've been consistent, I've been inconsistent. I think I only know one or two people that I spend any significant amount of time with who aren't liberal. Johnny call me sometime, always an enlightening conversation.

Jesi and I were talking about politics friday night. I'm a constructionalist. I think that's what it's called. I don't think that liberals or conservatives have it right. I don't believe that no theory will work, just that taking a simple view like man is basically good or man is basically evil is just to simplistic for reality. Man is built for good, go watch young children. Man has free will and this gives us the power to yield great evil. Arguing against free will proves yourself wrong.

I hate theorizing. All my liberal friends have wild theories for change. Moving to different countries or states, finding something that will last forever. Irony. Maybe I just don't want to miss my friends, or my youth. Maybe I just don't want things to change. All my conservative friends have theories for makeing things stay the same. I can't stand Tax cuts for business incentive. It seems like social Darwinism when the rich will create jobs with their tax cuts and the poor will avoid them. Maybe I just think the sacrifice is too great to keep things the same. My brother always says "no matter what happens in life, it's going to be ironic." Truth spoken.
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