So I’ve been doing a lot of political agruing, and reading some of my friends blogs and I’ve been thinking. What if more people took a systems approach to everything. By that I mean, what if the stability of an entire system was more important than the individual. Our democracy is built on that kind of an ideal…i.e. the best for the greatest good. But a lot of times I’ll be arguing and people are only concerned with one particular agenda, or how it is the governments job to single-handedly solve every single persons problem in the whole world.
Well, I could go on and on about how my thoughts ranging from theology to politics, to how I drive is entirely based around my idea of systems and how being a working part of the system improves my drive/understanding/taxes and planning to unbalance the system uncessarily causes undo stress and pain for myself and the others around me. But I won’t, cuz it would take a long time. And then I would probably make a lot of you mad by just spouting control-system theory as a basis for my arguement, and that pisses my wife off when I reduce the world to math.
So, anyway…maybe I should think more about helping individual people, which is why I like Jeff not learning this system theory stuff because he reminds me (so does my wife) that individual people are important. But others of you should think about how systematic approaches to government (and driving….it works better with driving) benefits all of us.
Something else unrelated, but important
I decided I’m going to write in if I can actually vote. Not mickey mouse, not yoda, or anything like that. I’m going to write in my Dad. Joel Patrick Catlin for president. I told him I’m going to write him in and he actually said I shouldn’t cuz he would suck at being president. But I figure I like my Dad, I agree with a lot of what he says, and he is politically savvy (he minored in Pol. Sci. in college). He could get in the game and stir stuff up.
Now, I’m aware that he won’t win, but it would be cool to get a big write-in champaign going. Just enough votes to make some people notice. That would be funny. So vote like me, vote for my Dad. It is like voting “Neither” only better than a third party because my Dad isn’t crazy like most the third party candidates.
This all comes from me being unable to decide which third party candidate to vote for. They are all so wack-o. With crazy stuff like getting rid of the military, and legalizing weed, to completely socializing the hell out of everything. I just wish someone would stand on the platform or reforming the FCC, FDA, and all the other government regulators that don’t keep up with technology, and just hamper and stifel innovation in the marketplace and in healthcare.
OK, so that is it for now, go vote for my Dad on Nov. 2.