Saturday, July 23, 2011

My response to MrSticky005 on The Spectrum

Warning, I may or may not have felt like typing a shit ton for the last 2 paragraphs so I just kind of wrote whatever just randomly floated into my head. I'd like to give credit to a guy I used to know back when I played the online game Tribal Wars, Potato King (KingofthePotatoPeople), for inspiring me to take his half drunken writing style and apply it to my way of thinking with similar but yet less random and hilarious results, though I suspect this may have something to do with not downing a bottle of spirits an hour or so before going onto the skype chat for my clan back when I played and then typing up a storm of nonsensical gibberish that somehow still mostly had proper sentence form and structure, though may of lacked in punctuation at times.

Here's my response to the question in any case:

In Canada we don't use the term "wings" to discuss politics (unless referring to the US). Basically we use either Capitalism, Communism, and somewhere in between (which is kinda where Canada falls). The US isn't completely Capitalist since they still do regulate some things so by definition they are not completely capitalistic, though they're closer than say someone like Canada which has a lot more regulations but we're leaning more and more every day towards a more deregulated system (as much as a good portion of us are opposed to it since most of the beneficiaries would be american corporations instead of our own smaller corporations).

Then you have countries like China that are on the communism side of the spectrum, which is a different political theory that works in theory, but only if the system isn't abused like it was in Russia before they changed their system to something more democratic. The largest problem with Communism is that it relies on politicians and the people not giving in to greed and accepting a lower quality of life than what they could potentially have in order to ensure that everyone in the country gets the same quality of life. To me a perfect communist society would be quite terribly boring since it would inevitably stunt creativity in order to become more efficient as a society, and while that may be fine for some I'd prefer having more choices in life. Basically it's like giving a million people the option of having $200 a week for life or holding a lottery for $2000 a week for life in which only about 1 in 10 people will win and the rest lose. If you were to put it for a vote then of course you're going to have people who want the bigger amount and people who are content with the smaller amount, but more likely than not the larger amount would win because when people see that much money every week they think of the things they could do with it which in turn will convince you to go for the big money unless you decide that you can live and fulfill all your wants with the smaller amount of money. It all depends on the philosophy of the common person and how they prioritize their wants and needs.

And there I go again just trying to shed some light on communism before some troll comes in here sprouting nonsense like "herp derp communism is bad" without even knowing what he's talking about, so there I've now made a smarter troll, whether they choose to admit it or not.This will have ramifications such as giving the common trolls enough knowledge so that they can manipulate and fool more intelligent people, and thus eventually they will have the power to fool all but the smartest citizens of the world, thus creating a world where low intelligence is eventually frowned upon and thus restoring the balance of power to those with the mental capacity to use it properly. A truly evil plan I know, you can applaud now if you wish. I'm just changing the world, one troll at a time.

This is what happens when I'm awake for around 22 hours. This should subside into drowsiness within a few hours and as a result there will be less typing while I think of random crap to say about some topic that has no doubt long been forgotten by now. And would you look at that, my battery is now fully charged, meaning I've been typing for around an hour and a half. And still going strong, but alas I feel the first stages of drowsiness so away I must go and bid farewell to poor Yorick, who has likely died during the process of reading this message. Yes, that was a hamlet reference, and yes Horatio, I did know him well and thus I must confess to his murder through a wall of emaculate text, you can put your sunglasses back on now, the case is over, you do not have to play the theme song, though I wouldn't mind if you played me out right now Scotty, who is also the piano man, whom I wouldn't be opposed to if he were to decide to sing us a song. This concludes today's issue of long winded closing paragraphs, you can count the comma's yourself and see how excessive that last sentence truly was, but as of right now I bid the all a good night, a merry christmas in July, and thus a happy new year in August, and perchance a birthday or two should there be one coming up during my nap. 

Yep, I spent over an hour on this, somehow.

2 comments:

  1. Hi, this is mrsticky005
    First off that was a good informative read.
    I did not know that Canadians do not use the
    terms left wing or right wing.

    However I like to make it clear what I mean.
    Others may have a much more complicated definition than I do. But I like to try
    and keep things simple. Either that or I'm
    stupid. Take your pick. Anywho I think
    left wing are for larger government and
    right wing is for smaller government.
    Left wing sees government as something
    that can be a force for social justice.
    Right wing sees government as a obstacle
    to individual freedom. Center is of course
    in the middle.

    I would say the U.S is somewhere in the middle
    give or take. I do agree with your statement
    that the U.S isn't completely capitalist.
    As for Canada I think it is or was Socialist
    or at least close to it. Though Socialism should not be confused for Communism. It's left of center but not far left. Though as you said that's changing. I appreciate that you see
    China as being Communist though they do have
    have some capitalist aspects. At "best" I
    would say China is a mixed economy.

    I don't think Communism in of itself is necessarily a bad thing. Actually in a way
    I think one could say Communism never actually
    existed and never will and when it's tried
    to put into the practice the result is totalitarianism. I don't see Communism as ever
    working because I think it requires people
    to be intrinsically good persons which I
    sadly don't think is the case. Of course
    I suppose one could argue that because
    people are not good people then we need
    the government to step in and take control
    The question I ask is "But what if the
    government gets out of control?" It's much
    easier to not do business with bad business
    then to not be a citizen of a bad government.
    If it was as easy as just moving to another
    country then genocide would be virtually non-existent. But sadly it does exist and
    in a way quite abundantly.

    I enjoyed reading your response.

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  2. Basically from your definition of left and right wing it's basically as I said, left wing is communist, meaning they believe the government should control everything gong on within a country, while right wings are capitalists, believing that government regulations are just something to obstruct freedom. I don't really see communism as bad since it does allow for governments to have more control over what goes on within their country and their economy but there are always going to be people who are happy to settle for less than what they could potentially have and there will always be those who want more than they have. The system itself cannot hope to please everyone within it which is basically creating a recipe for protests against the system by those who want more, thus forcing the government to take some form of action to deal with the issue.

    In all honesty I don't see capitalism as being better than communism since the system of capitalism has its own flaws such as not having enough government control over resources, thus allowing other companies and corporations to freely charge what they want to make a profit. Too much deregulation inevitably will cause poverty because not everyone will be able to afford whatever these corporations want to charge for things like electricity or internet access since income is not going to be the same for each individual as it would be in a perfect communist society. However, like you said the US and Canada have put regulations in place to try and prevent widespread poverty from simply not making enough money in the form of a minimum wage that employers must pay employees per hour worked. In a capitalist society there would be no minimum wage and thus no regulation over what is a reasonable payment and thus this would mean that working class people would basically be slaves to those with more money, which really doesn't sound like much freedom to me. The best way to go would be somewhere in the middle, which is pretty much where Canada and the US stand, where things are regulated to help ensure everyone gets a decent pay, while still allowing for an opportunity to make more money.

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