The Jackuul Blog

I believe it is the right thing to do. By that mere statement I sum up just about every reason that would ever be needed to support something. By saying you believe something is right, even if you might be wrong, is to trust in your own judgment of opinion and your own judgement in many cases of character, and also your own logical connections. By saying you believe something is right, you are unequivocally throwing support behind whatever that belief is, whether or not the majority hold the same point of view.

I have long been taught that you stand up for what you believe is right, even when the world seems to turn against you. I believe that doing is is the right thing to do, and by saying that I myself am affirming it. I do not sit down and just let the steam press of life roll me over, I do not change my dreams to a cynical barren world, I do not stop believing that I can accomplish the impossible with the odds of six billion to one. I believe I can, and until the end I will keep striving for my biggest goals without compromise.

I see this kind of strength in a few people I know, but I see more weakness and more spinelessness than I could have ever imagined. When I was very young I thought that everyone would find a way and that everyone was a leader – while I was out-casted. Later on it turns out I was the one to never follow or become integrated or assimilated into their caste systems and cliques. In the end I am left with my dreams of a future I wish to shape intact – while they are working at jobs they hate, they are slaving over burners or filing useless papers or shuffling pencils for the ever domineering bosses.

I have remained rather free in my mind, able to justify what I want to and able to judge at my own pleasure. I never subscribed to group think and I never went with the herd. Sure, sometimes that landed me in trouble, and sometimes it lost me opportunities for work – but it never lost me my free will or my ideas. I have maintained an almost pure ideal since I was 15, changing it as I learned more of course, but I still have the ideal of a better future.

I still have the ideas and the machinations fine tuned by nearly eight years of critical thinking, all of my plans and strategies modified, tweaked, and able to adjust quickly. I am developing a whole world of my own in my mind, but I desperately want to implement it in the real world. I am, of course, entirely unable to do so at this time. But, I still maintain my thoughts, my freedom of thoughts, never tainted or ruined by a corporate world hellbent on making me just another cog in the machine.

There was a point that it almost broke me, working in an industrial factory making emulsions that were hazardous with sub-standard safety equipment. I would come home every day smelling of the chemical concoctions, my hands cracking and bleeding, my mind foggy and out of touch. I have no clue as to how many brain cells I may have damaged, but it had taken me well over a year to recover my senses after quitting that hellish indentured servitude that masqueraded as a job. I am better for it now, because I know that I cannot be broken by the mundane.

The torture of a room with yellow light compounded by extremes in temperatures from 30 degrees to 120 have shown me how little can utterly annoy and harass me to a state of near vegetative thought and clogged mind, coupled with chemicals that require masks and gloves, but none were given, all of this has shown me how much – or little – a person can be pushed to cause a change. Day after day, week following week, then month to month. Paychecks being miscalculated to scalp your money, and ending up with literally jack squat for the work you did, that kind of injustice that must be sloughed through… it can break someone. Thankfully I was able to move before it broke me and turned me into a cynical voided human husk.

After that, and after recovering I am now, more than ever, galvanized and hardened with my views, I will take them with me to my grave, I will die for them. My dreams are the same, but are more complicated and detailed. My goals are the same, but have more smaller goals to reach them. My processes and systems in my head are more mature and take on a different kind of approach, avoiding micro and striving for the macro – leaving the micro to the individual circumstances.

All of this is rather abstract, I know, however I am unleashing the part of my mind that has been bottled, so either you can stop reading now, or continue on.

In this new kind of thinking and this new state of mind that embraces the old and modifies it for the future I have been through entire models of government in my head, and come to the conclusion that only one kind can last for any significant amount of time without major disruption. Democracy is well and good, however it is not through democracy that there is the exact working of economic prosperity. It is through economic and social freedom that a society can outlast and outlive others. Through free trade and through freedom to be what one wishes to be is the future of a country that will last another hundred, two hundred, five hundred or thousand years. It is only through these two essentials that man can be motivated to the common good and also be motivated to continue its existence.

With free trade comes the possibility of everyone to make money and keep money, by placing no taxes on income, but rather collecting off of trade and sales (marginally at that) you can create a hub of economic activity and barter that will outlast generations of men and women. By allowing for the total social freedoms you encourage people to be themselves and to live life as they see fit, ridding them of fear and also gaining loyalty to the government because of these freedoms. Civil liberties are worth more than a thousand nuclear bombs as far as a weapon goes. Men and women will die for their right to be free, they will fight harder, longer, and better for the goal of a free society where everyone can be what they want to be.

Political freedom, is of course, one of the obvious social freedoms, which means you are free to believe politically in anything. However, in practice it often leads to corruption of the ideals, it begins to create bureaucracy that starts to strangle the economy with laws. It starts to give out illegal powers, and then begins to consolidate power by limiting the power of the people. The only way to combat this is effectively limit the government itself. This can be done by placing in a constitution, similar to the one in the united states, however stronger. Disallow the piggybacking of amendments to bills that have nothing to do with the bill itself – that way a defense budget is really a defense budget and does not have other needless things added on to it. Disallow the judicial branch of any government to make law, only to break law (I don’t mean violate the law, I mean declare a law unlawful, and break its back), and finally disallow the executive to do anything in regard to military action unless there is the case of an emergency. Strip the power to declare war from the president and deliver it back to the parliament or congress.

If this form of government is adopted, along with direct democracy as a third part of the legislative branch, it could become one that is extremely effective at controlling the bulk and waste. Clauses should be in place that limit the budget to an exact percentage point of the GDP and only what can be covered. It should be illegal to have any form of income tax or market regulation except the case of illegal monopolies or trusts. It should be a death penalty type punishment for anyone attempting to take the currency off the gold standard and place it in a faith of the people setting. Money should always have a backing to it to keep inflation low and the power of the currency high. I don’t care if it is gold, silver, platinum, or iron. As long as it is backed and cannot be changed easily, it is better.

I know that many people will find this hard to accept, but as I began this post, I will end this post with the statement that I believe I am right, and I believe changing the government to be like this is the right thing to do.