A Standard

BLM WHM SMN SCH THF RNG BRD MNK WAR DRK PLD > 99

EDIT: I gotta say that if I write too many articles in a row, I get cynical, and really, I'm like Alex, I'm not cynical but my critical thinking gets in the way of optimism, sometimes making my nihilistic self... tmi?  I'm gonna try to keep it to one article a week maybe.  

It's assumed that everyone is poorer than the king.  It's just assumed.  If there ever were someone that were richer than the king, then someone would be able to afford a larger army than he could.  In essence, this "mafia army" would be able to "take" the king's army if not outright, at least by way of hit and run tactics.  Of course, it would be necessary that the king not LEARN of this army or of this person because then either that person and army would be king, or there would be a terrible "accident" that would happen to said person, perhaps in the style of Putin's country where he doesn't even have to do his own misdeeds, if there but be a patriot that will "handle" your enemies for you.  

It sucks to be outnumbered.  Remember that.  The question of where.  Learned that from Morrowind, thanks Morrowind and your "books".  

In watching CSPAN today I am challenged by the British parliament.  I have always believed that there is something to be said about old governments.  There must be a standard.  In their government, there is a taxpayer's queen.  Some people, especially people in Hollywood where power and voices are given to actors who probably don't have a lot of experience giving people jobs and maintaining a good reputation while "firing" people for nothing more than a thimble full of a bad one, believe that there should not be a taxpayer monarchy.  I have probably mentioned this before but I DO.  

The Queen is the poor man's mafia.  Now obviously I use mafia here like the Italians are in charge but in reality there is a "mafia" or secret gang of crazy people behind every government.  One Neptune for every Jupiter.  So when I say mafia I mean "secret" gang that rules because they are best able to keep their secrets without the rest of society running them over for being stupid.  And like most things I believe, perhaps naively, that they must be a good-natured people.  ANY group of people MUST be good-natured or the group won't work.  Betrayers create other betrayers and once you have one or two, it's not long before the entire group lives for some new each individual purpose(betrayal) OTHER than the purpose or vision it set out to achieve.  

And once you set up these groups... like a union let's say or a chamber of commerce or a city council; they all had better not make MORE money than the king.  See, that's what the king is for, is a standard.  We need to have ONE rich guy that we can all aspire to be and then have everyone agree that NOONE should be richer.  Being rich is the goal.  Loophole hunting, while someone else runs the city, is the goal, that is, a mayor that runs the city and a king that is basically your token rich guy.  

It's like my father explained to be about running a ship.  Of the officers, the third mate is in charge of the lower decks, the second mate in charge of navigation,  and the CHIEF mate or first mate, runs the ship... and the CAPTAIN... does nothing.  Oh, he makes decisions but basically is there only for emergencies or to sign off on stuff.  See, that's the system already in place on ships and it's been that way since there have been ships and it's probably going to stay that way.  We need a backup. We always need a backup.  A plan B.  A backup car, a backup computer, a backup house maybe, and maybe even a backup spouse is a good idea, perhaps a backup PLAN for your spouse, just in case, like for a rainy day... when noone expects you to be alone in the house... on the washing machine maybe... 

(chuckle)

Well, I hate to break it to you guys but fact is I would probably make a terrible husband.  A great father yes, and a great partner too, but be faithful and not keep secrets and keep my mouth shut... I would suck at that.  Get it?  Suck at that?  Nvm.  

So um... where was I.. oh yeah, another swig of coffee and we go back to talking about standards.  So we need a standard.  This I probably have said before is needed in the public sector as well as the private.  Didn't we grow up being taught the scientific method?  What's the only thing true about the scientific method that ya'll can remember... CLASS?  A control experiment.  That's right.  We take one example and make it do nothing just for the sake of comparing our hypothesis against that control so as to draw conclusions based on the margins of error.  Welcome back to the 5th grade.  Well so, it's not a bad idea for experiments and it's also not a bad idea in government.  We need control experiments to keep people from colluding.  

We should start with banks, spread that out the the physicians and dentists maybe(dentists collude?) and then end with our method of communicating(comcast) and our energy(oil or Exxon or whatever name they are using this week).  All of these need a public standard, and while they may be inefficient, it's necessary to have a sample company with public records available so that private companies can't "hide" profits.  

Just look at the medical community.  Noone knows what doctors should charge because there is no standard.  It's like the FIFA.  Whatever God can catch... he can keep!  Lol.  Ya'll know that joke right?  

OK there are 3 men in a plane discussing how they collect their tithes and offerings at their church.  Now for some reason it's funny to make JEWS the bad guys in this.  So the Catholic priest says to the 2 others that to decide what he keeps and what he gives to the church he draws a line in the sand... and then tosses all of the money on it and whatever is on this side he keeps for his personal use, whatever is on THAT side is for God.  The Baptist minister says he does the same thing except that he draws a circle and whatever is on the outside of the circle, is for God.  And that's when we get to the Jewish Rabbi(for some reason people think Jewish people are greedy, which in no way reflects badly on the Nazi's since I am sure both were a lovely people once when they lived in harmony, both the Jewish rich PIGS and the Nazi scum of the earth that were not so nice to the PIGS!), so he says, "oh, you guys, I use the same thing, me too! Except that what I do is I throw the tithes and offerings up in the air... and whatever God can catch, he can keep!" 

I know it's not that funny.  Well, if I was a comedian, I would probably have more money and I would probably have some enemies(what?).  You know I said that once at the bar, that I have no enemies, and people all around me went silent.  I probably should beelined myself straight to the police station just at that point and I would probably still have my job and my friends... I also said the word mafia once at the bar and the same thing happened...

MAFIA! (chuckle, yeah I know it's not funny but in a room by yourself, IT IS!)

So sidetracked again and we are now talking about doctors again, who charge this much over here and that much in that city and that much for that procedure and here goes how much this item costs and by the way, it's all covered by the government so might as well double the price, a SECOND time, thanks and by the way ripping off the government is sort of like risk-taking so shut up about it and maybe TEACH that in business school... 

Yeah.  

Same goes for comcast and xbox and oil and wal-mart and supermarkets and electricity.  We need to set up a control company, the federal government does, and then just have competitors copy it in all of the cities simply for the sake of using up the potential of the local workers in those local areas.  Ok I'm tired of writing now so I guess we won't go into oil and cable and drugs/pharma but you all get the point yeah?  Generic brands people, we gotta have the poor people's version of things and then better quality whatevers that are always more expensive but which come with "nice packaging".  

Ok so more than that, we need to have a king.  Not a mafia.  A king.  This person IS the mafia except that he doesn't hide.  And, what's more important, is that noone is richer than this guy, and if this guy is TOO rich, then our rich people can VOTE DOWN his pay.  Good idea!  Now there have been over the course of history many ways that kings get around the voting down of their pay.  One method is to create an elected council that justifies everything to the people easy, another is just to create a council of assassins that justifies everything to the people... REAL EASY(Reign of Fire).  And yet another is to outsmart your council from time to time and offer up a bad guy that works for you once in a while to keep things in check.  This last method is perhaps the most proven.  

From time immemorial there have been sacrifices, BLOOD sacrifices, where one person is given to their god as proof of their devotion(God is the people yeah?) This keeps the group from turning on itself right.  I just SAID that there must always be an ever-loving HORDE out there to keep our army/CIA preoccupied, in case it gets too curious about our own MAFIA making money by sacrificing people here at home.  

So(love that word, no, not really) this is why we need to have sophistication and history teachers.  Because even though it seems stupid to build a wall around a city now(Jericho in the Bible)... it's gonna happen again.  It's just a matter of time before people will think walls are a good idea.  And once that happens, you can almost here it in the air the words "here we go again" being chimed out at the war that is about to bring down that wall.  

Sophistication is what saves.  In Britain, they are the oldest government.  For some reason, having a country be all on an island, keeps revolutions from happening.  That's why Australia and Britain have the longest periods without revolution is because... no horde.  It turns out that having a moat is indispensable to keeping outsiders from sneaking in.  

By the way, GOOD JOB SCOTLAND! 
Good Job, SCOTLAND!  WOO HOO, I LOVE ME A GOOD SCOTLAND! 
(Every historian shakes his head) 

So of course the best thing to do after you have had a millenium of no division... is to divide your island.  Where's Jerry Lewis or Jack Tripper when you need him? 

EDIT: And this is what I get is what I sowed, right?  I bought foreign cars and lo and behold, I lost my job to foreign workers... and I tell everybody the wonders of drinking Scotch and re-hydrating and being able to spend ALL DAY at the bar and not get fat by drinking scotch and water instead of beer... and Scotland now has enough money to dismantle EVERYTHING I BELIEVE IN, lol. 

So skipping that little emotional rant, sophistication is what saves.  By being able to predict corruption or to predict mafia, you are BEST able to handle hordes and demons and whatever other necronomical codexes might prove your laws wrong, why?  Because in your ARENA/country, it's happened before.  This is why we need the Pope.  Because he is the standard.  Once lost, corruption will re-proselytize being free.  Do you feel that happening to our country?  We are wanting to be free... like it's a good thing?  Just as using the Lord's name in vain is a bad thing, or charging into war in the name of a religion(jihad) is a bad thing, using "freedom" as a cause is also bad.  

The horde has no cause.  Its cause is to rampage and destroy.  It will use this or that "cause" to fund its exploits but make no mistake, a horde is about being FREE... free to dominate others.  Free to be violent... and amazing... at about how violent you they can be.  It's nothing to be honored or admired.  Wanting to join ISIL is like wanting to kill the pig yourself or wanting to piss your pants.  It might feel good and it might just feel good enough to never hold your pee again.  It might be nicer not to have to hold it in, yes? 

Anyways peeing yourself, functionally... what a release!  Change the rules right?  Now let's all walk barefoot in traffic!  Freedom! 

Well, as Obama probably has learned, change does not always mean CHANGE.  It's necessary to change the leaders but the moment LAWS start to change, we all should become VERY suspicious.  If you need proof of what can happen, just research GAAP.  Don't know what that is?  Well, in Business school we talk about GAAP quite a bit.  It's basically a set of "laws" for accounting.  Now accounting is a fine if somewhat boring profession... IF you don't break the rules.  But that's ok, because every couple of years ALL the rules change.  It's so stupid.  Whoever tells you they are a professional accountant might as well be telling you they went to college and studied Art History because whatever they learned EONS ago, could not possibly be the set of rules used today.  Now don't get me wrong, just like in programming, where people can look forward to a set of standards like FOR... NEXT statements and IF... THEN statements, accounting has standards too, that even if they change the rules, the people in the industry can look forward to norms that allow them to fast forward to the fine-tuning part of the new rules.  

And once again we come to the Pope.  Catholicism is an old standard for dealing with corruption.  Once it is gone, and the Bible is gone, we won't have a way of understanding how a government goes bad or even have examples of it going bad because evil is ALWAYS more diligent.  When you build there is not always food, but to destroy, there is always food.  Evil wants to "finger" history and make it seem like EVERYONE was evil, or like EVERYONE wanted that holocaust.  It wants whores to be thought of as having had sex with EVERYONE, that way they stay whores.  If you whored only once, evil/everyone says you're still a whore, even though it would be perfectly normal to begin to have normal sex with just one person.  

Ok, so now we get to the lewd part of my column is that a girl's vagina/libido is an ever-loving range of feelings.  If it's tight, it's innocent and it likes everyone, and perhaps it likes bigger men better, yeah?  But what if she were to just have ONE man.  Can't know what she is missing if she isn't with others right?  That's the standard.  If there is a standard, and he is a "small" standard, it's likely she will enjoy a whole bunch of other guys, as compared to him.  And it might be nice to keep him around for dry spells, so that she can FULLY ENJOY most men, once the dry spell goes away.  She might especially enjoy these "most men" from behind, so as not to damage "husself" so much which makes it nicer for her small man at home to enjoy "hisself".  

And that's what standards should be.  They should be small, they should be boring, they should be expected.  That's what our society should be all about, is standards.  Boring governement workers all have medical and make no pay while exciting private workers get a whole bunch of pay abut also have to worry about being fired and about the company going bankrupt.  Government = low standards.  Private company = excellence = risk.  Anyways, high standards or low standards, how you make money, is in managing the margins.  That is how you attain wealth, that is how you attain happiness, and it's how you attain civility, and control.  

PS: That's why we need to do away with marriage except for the sake of children.  People should devote themselves to children and not to each other as mates, unless they want to.   Not only does this mean more sex for everybody, because the finer women that are ALWAYS married can finally do what they want, but it means that I can finally get with that fantastic looking WIFE of yours without having to damage my conscience to do it.  I know, this was funnier a while ago.