CAPITAL FREEDOM BELONGS IN THE TREES!

I've often thought about what it might be like to live in the trees. This might sound like murmuring hippy-babble, but seriously consider for a moment the therapeutic, inspirational, and unknown significance of such an experience. This passage is not meant to measure the feasibility of such a trial, rather to take smaller thoughts and explore the magnitude to which your consciousness can be inflated.

A line from an old Bob Marley song has really been sitting well with me lately. He sings, "So capital free! Oh what a feeling to be free, so capital free!" Standard of living is an individual fabrication of comfort that is on the forefront of our daily search. It is knowingly measured, therefore individually adopted and connected to a cognizant variable of happiness. What we don't know can't hurt us, right? And what we choose to block out of our own "happy-equation" is our choice. On the flip, what we don't know can't help us, so what if the heights of living standards were found in a capital-free tree home miles from minimum wage, rent payments, liability insurance, credit cards, and a well developed portfolio?... Or are we already so predisposed that we are now incapable of achieving such simple satisfaction from the brilliant unknown…

CORPORATE FIZZLE?... FO SHIZZLE

The model concept of the prospering corporate margin cannot feasibly sustain, can it? Each entity must face a time, even hundreds of years from now, when it will plateau, merge, or decease. Natural resources essential in maintaining extreme production expectations will no longer be available to accommodate accelerated consumption trends. Or will be so limited, and expectantly protected, that output will drop leaving shareholders reluctant. It has to fizzle!

Maybe one day a corporate power so bullheaded and dominant (Bush may call this company resourceful) will force all other operations to relinquish their ownership to a reasonable selling price? Lions, Tigers, and Bears...! Most publicly owned companies seem relatively open minded to the idea of sudden riches, so why not enable the beast, sell out, and start retirement a little earlier? I would watch for that little creature to grow legs sooner than later.

But let it be known that in the future, each struggling institution will place their own terrible mark on society and mother nature in trying to keep an old model living. A corrupt desperation will bleed over into most everything pure we have. I don’t mean to sound cynical, but can thousands of stock values accordingly increase throughout the course of time without harming limited natural resources? If your answer is yes, then I'll ask you if it can be done without dissolving ethical boundaries. If your answer is still yes, I'll ask you if you're reading this from the confinements of a safe institution...

WHOEVER SMELT IT DEALT IT...

It’s funny when our conservative administration and the right wing media refer to most Middle Eastern religion and cultures as warmongering, one-sided intolerants that have little grasp on modern values and share a fundamental unwillingness to promote peace. I’m thinking, “Oh yeah, like that guy on campus with the sign hollering gay slurs telling students that drink, curse, and fornicate they’re all going to rot in hell, must be from somewhere around Turkey, right?...”