More freedom more control

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More freedom more control

In a democratic government we care more for ourselves than the rest of the world. We try to find a symbiosis between our businesses and the American individuals that run them.

In a repulican government, the businesses are free to do as they will and usually that means they influence the government to the detriment of the individual.

Well what we need to have is a new democratic party that keeps in line with the intent of the founders of the constitution. The part where unions are allowed and controlled. Where guns are allowed and controlled. Where speech is allowed and controlled. Where marriage and happiness of whatever form is allowed and controlled. Where the latest computer breakthrough is allowed and controlled. Where privacy is allowed and controlled. Where public assembly is allowed and controlled.

It sounds like a different country doesn't it, this country where everything would be under the watchful eye of the government. But it is for us to decide and for us to extricate and for us to demand of our interpreters of the constitution.

And I don't mean let's do it like I want because you know I am one box seat and a champagne glass away from abusing my power. Leaders should be diminished from our mentality and actors, yes actors should be the new direction of the people that will "puppet" the government. I mean if we are going to use puppets, let's go all out. Let's make elections one that the masses decide. Every law can be one movie away from giving the public understanding and a vote.

Obviously, we should not dump our system and "try" the new method, but it's worth noting, even now maybe decades before it comes to pass that this is the direction we should point to if we are to become more civilized.

Less civilization is what we get when we have more republicans refusing to cooperate and I will be the first to agree that no matter what the party, people will suck. But it's too important to have a direction, to not have one. If we just give up and say whatever man, rich people know what they're doin', then you get $10/ gallon gas prices. $1000 electric bills, $500 water, $500 trash pickup etc. And why not, the people that can't afford it will just owe it and so what if they don't ever pay up, they know what time it is, it's Miller time!

The only thing that can come from not having more civilization or more government is less, and that's not gonna work. More people need more government and we aren't losing people and we don't want to, unless you're Republican.

Systems, controls, buffers, maximums, and minimums are how you organize anything so if you are fed up with people making billions, then maybe a minimum wage wasn't such a bad idea. Maybe pensions and unions weren't the corrupt things we thought they were.

It's been said before I think on G.I. Jane (great movie) and I swear a lot of stuff in movies I said first in a different form but whatever: There are no bad teams, just bad leaders. I used to say that about McDonald's because I worked there as a manager.

There are no bad restaurants, just bad managers. The book to run a McDonald's is pretty huge, and unabridged, it is the golden path to good food. Problem is if you follow all the specs in it, it can get pretty dern expensive, and it's a lot easier to leave food in the warmer a bit longer and pull those fries and burgers earlier and maybe stack the food in the bag fries first cuz it's faster. There were so few restaurants out there with the sophistication of McDonald's that people would take their food cold and not complain because essentially the taste was there and they didn't trust the other restaurants. If you let your employess do it, they slide the rules even so much as to break them so it's really up to the style of the manager if the food is going to be any good. That's why it's good to ask for the manager not so much to get the employee in trouble, as it is to see if the manager is one of THOSE types. Then you can just choose a different place but for a good reason not because one person forgot something.

My professor in business went to the Thunderbird Academy in Arizona which is the best school in the world for Internationl Finance or it was and even though I couldn't get in, it was enough for me that at least he went there. He told everyone in class that even though it was probably beneath everyone in my private university's station, that starting out as a manager of a fast food restaurant is a boon of hands-on experience doing everything that you just learned getting your business degree. And he was right. Of course he was always right and he was so right that when you walked out of his class your head hurt from everything you learned. Why? Because he would write something on the board, make sure everyone wrote it down, Then ask us questions about it, then he would erase it and move on. One guy said to me that his head hurt from everything he learned because it was SO unlike other classes that it was hard on your faculties. He used no book in class, and his test was to write the question on the board and discuss it like we did in class. We answer freehand on a white sheet of paper. It was so weird it was brilliant. Don't ask me how I failed some of his classes but I think that when I like something or someone, I disappoint them, not intentionally cuz it's my subconscious need or something, I dunno. I did the same thing in humanities and philosophy. Great teachers, bad grades. Even marketing, where I learned the whole star cash cow dog thing I spout out to everyone, or the cluster map of desire between rich people and rich products that I explain to people is why target audiences are so important, I got an F. I learned a lot but I liked it too much to pass. Don't ask, I can't explain it to myself so I can't explain it to you.

Ok so back to managers of restaurants and good leaders of good teams. I am a horrible editor so sue me.

So that's why the government needs good leaders but not just ones that can stand in front of an audience like a comedian getting heckled to death and surviving, ones that "follow up" on his workers. Follow up is a huge deal in restaurants. As an owner, if you don't check up on people and what they do, you don't care if they do it right, you don't think what they do it important, or you just don't think it's your place to come down on people. It is your place. Managers are like dogs. If you don't watch em from time to time, off they go to dig a hole in your fence, because they wanna be free, FREEEEEEE, never mind that they are outside of the property and what it encompasses. If they are like my dog they get kicked by the neighbor!

Anyways, government should be about freedom too, not about how to make the rich people richer.

I saw some movies recently and boy was Abraham Lincoln good. I saw it in 3D and was very impressed with the effects.

Another movie I saw Promethius, omg did they kill Charlize Theron in the most senseless way possible or what! I'm starting to think the people in charge don't like her even though I think she is a brilliant actress. I loved her in Aeon Flux too. She was awesome in it. Great movie. (When I say great movie it means I have seen it more than 6 times). The Road. Great movie. I cry everytime she does the child bearing scene because I feel the same way sometimes like why would I bring a child into this world that has become so stale. Her pain, her senseless pain, her suffering is for nothing and yet she has to suffer it anyway because she is in the moment, there's no going back, her very soul is being released into the child and in her screams I hear the last of what her life was, so beautiful, so sexy, so exciting and full... and then empty. It's brilliant. I can envision it even now sitting here like it was me. At least the movie ends on a high note and for that I am happy though it didn't give a message but to depict a world that has lost it's charm. She should have got an Oscar for that but meh, Microsoft wins again or whoever. As a matter of fact I think I will watch it again tonight.

You know, movies are like books. There is a lot of time spent on putting the words together just so to make the movie believeable and hopefully to impress the philosophers like me. I never thought of myself as a philosopher until just now heh. Sounds better than preacher anyway.

The more you watch a great movie, the more you can pull out of every scene like in the background or the person next to them or the meaning of a certain scene. I wish there was a featurette of every movie by the writer explaining what they mean by certain scenes. The director just assumes we all know what the writing means and blah blah blah go on like we give a damn how long it took to put on makeup. Such fools! Talk about the writing, about what the lead is thinking, about why she thinks what she does, about the background he didn't get to that's in the book if there is one. Make two versions of every movie, one 2 hour, another 3 hour and put the 3 hour version on DVD. I mean you got the actors there already so why not slather it up with scenes. If you're spending millions of bucks why not film like a crapload of scenes that don't even make sense. I betcha DVD sales go back up! People want to watch a great movie when they are in a certain mood like after a breakup or after they lose their job or the day after they get back from Vegas. Finding Amanda was one great movie because of that cuz it reminded me of Vegas. I don't miss it so much now though but the movie is done well. But because I have seen it so many times, I would relish catching some extra scenes where she was naked or he was thrown out or maybe a nice long boring blackjack scene of nothing but cards and actors... cheap but effective and addictive. Some people would go back to a DVD just to find out if there were any tricks they missed that were "hidden" in the games. That's all moolah for the company.

In The Road, I would have the main actors explain their roles I mean you can see everything going on in their head in the movie but there's so few words that I think most people miss how artistic the movie is. After you hear what the actors say, if they are somewhat deep like both of them I know are, meaning Viggo and Charlize, you would be like wow, I didn't know he was debating his healing side with his destuctive side, or that he had given up on God and found a NEW god. Or that scene by Charlize that defines what it is to die in real life before your life is taken. I had to watch it several times to understand that NO she wasn't going to come back later in the movie with her gang and save them (which is what I thought the first time I saw it), she was already dead, already cold, already incomplacent and turned, she was already a zombie and to walk out into the night with no clothes, was to express her worth to the world one final time.

Wow, I got sidetracked, today I saw Brave. It was a nice story and it was very moral. I didn't like that it had a peg leg king but I did like that it mentioned a tapestry and how it needed to be mended for her mother to be healed from her curse. The moral being that Pride can affect whole legions of people, even if it is just you misusing it. Nothing special but it was for kids and the message was there for me so meh isawright.

You know, religion is how a government should be formed at the outset. People need a belief to power their lives. Especially young people. I believe every child should be sent to church just the same as they are told about Santa Claus and Easter because to understand our laws they are going to need simpler laws from which to build. So the purpose of religion is to be the state before the state becomes the state. To structure people into a system that they can agree and at least understand. The purpose of religion is to establish culture. So Egypt despite people saying that Muslimism is bad, is not wrong by adopting a nice simple religion just like we are adopting a nice simple healthcare. There has to be a system before it can be a functional and then efficient system.

But after becoming adults, I think we can all understand at least that to have people in a system of laws that allow gays, pot, dancing, premarital sex, slander, slapping, poking, adopting babies, charging telephone taxes or even any taxes above the 10% max that the bible mentions, we are going to need something a little more sophisticated than religion or republicans.

And if we want to have all of these freedoms, we are going to need more controls.