Musical Hair

I've had a little time this morning to look at some of the posts at Musical Hair's Musings. Here are a few gems...

The wealth Byzantium had at it's height remains incomprehensible, the wealth of Western Europe still to this day can count the spoils stolen from the pillage from Constantinople around 900 AD, and civic treasures in European cities are often remnants of art stolen and transported piece by piece from Constantinople. The empire was so strong that after they recaptured their capital with virtually all it's wealth stolen it stood for almost 500 more years, slowly crumbling behind walls.

These walls I refer to are not just physical. They had built up walls of smugness and pride from centuries of being the most wealthy, most cultured, most educated, most worldly, most Christian people. They felt that they were the society and empire of God on Earth, their fall could only be followed by Christ's return. After all, Constantine himself built their capital; time and hard work made it the jewel of Christianity never equalled before nor to this day. This gave them an arrogance that never faded even as the the Turks killed off all resistance and found, along side this pride, abject poverty in a society that mustered all it's resources for it's millitary protection and it's final stand.

I was thinking about corporate responsibility and how there isn't any and I stumbled into a kind of scarry idea. We all know that corporations have all the rights of people with no illnesses, no death awaiting them, nothing to punish them for wrong doings, no fear of jail time, maybe an occassional fine. A lawyer may represent a corporation in a legal proceeding, but since that corporation is not a human it doesn't have to be in court....

...Law started and remains as a non-human entity with all the fickle preferences of a Greek God or demon. Selective enforcement may be random like some traffic tickets or intentionally biased like arresting black kids selling weed to white kids and letting the white kids drive off, or pulling over black motorists instead of white.

The failure of this nation starts where the Democrats and Republicans agree. Every pot hole you bounce over this winter, thank your representative for the tax cut. Every dead soldier, every child in poverty, every new asthma case: thank your representative, Democrat or Republican.

A conclusion is what you or I arrive at after a thought process and weighing the facts and principles, but for the fundamentalist a conclusion is drawn up from a set of preconceptions that are in service to a goal.

We're at a point where the lack of reasoning on the part of the right is useless to even look at. It is circular, void of any basis in the real world, and just plain stupid. We must instead look at their goals. Endless war, no science, no civil rights, no consumer protection, no cross-cultural understanding, no truth, no accoutability.

I'll put up a permanent link in the sidebar to Musical Hair's Musings. I am trying to keep that blog list short, because when I visit another blog and see a bajillion blog links, it sets up a psychological block: "Too much. No time for all, so where to start? Don't look." So I want my list to look manageable from first glance. It's hard to choose to leave out some blogs, but such is life. If you'd like to see more links to other good blogs and good websites (ahem, according to me), I have a more extensive list on my webpage here.

If you want more information on the topic of corporate responsibility and personhood, I have a number of articles linked on my webpage here.

If you want more commentary about fundamentalism and the single party posing as two, just stick around.

And visit Musical Hair.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.