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Farcebook wanted to know what was on my mind. The answer? How the secret tendrils of politics
crawls into so many places to complicate and sometimes just plain fuck up
things that politics has no business being involved with.
Take cars for an example. I do cars, have for years. Being
born a poor boy it was learn how to mechanic or walk. I'm not so poor now, but
I still work on my own for the most part, hey, paying someone else to fix
something minor on your truck is kind of like paying someone else to give the
old lady a minor orgasm, you know? Just not very satisfying no matter how loud
or long she yodels.
Over the years automobiles have gotten a lot more
technically sophisticated. Cuss as I do I'll admit that a great deal of these
things are improvements, the metallurgy and the engine control systems. Yea,
you have to know what you're looking at and yea, you do need test gear to
really troubleshoot the systems, but... on the other hand you can go from the
bottom of death valley to the top of Pikes Peak and not have to change running
jets (and if you know what that means you might be *gasp* a geezer).
On the other hand I save some of my very favorite cuss words
for when I get involved with something where there's a fucking fifty dollar
module doing the exact same job that can be done with a bit of a cam and a
chunk of heavy wire, you know... the bells and whistles on the inside of the
car for those who think Honda is buying up all the American Virgins to keep the
volcano god of Technology living at their house. Somewhere in the last few days
it finally dawned on me how that happened, and folks... it is suck the dog
POLITICAL.
The oriental countries have come into their own making
electronic things. They, like every other industry in the modern world, have a
problem. If they build them to last as long as they could they won't sell
enough to stay in business. If they don't stay in business, well, THEIR
political parasites will be all over the map and OH MY GOD the residuals of the
totalitarian communist regimes might start creeping back in. So, of course they
engineer for a predictable failure rate just to keep sales up. Just common
sense.
But what is not common sense is allowing these same FOREIGN
companies to put money into the AMERICAN political scene to influence trade
agreements (aka laws that usually remain hidden from the public) in order to
assure themselves that the American politicians will lean on their industrial
buddies to use lots of what the Asian companies are making trying to make sure
the geyodamcommies don't have another chance at taking over southern bangkok
where the door buzzer widgets come from.
Now that's a bit of a mulligan stew of an exaggeration, but
then again, not really. Next time a politician supports something that looks
just totally dumb on the surface think it through again from the perspective of
the global perspective of the Corporate Neo-Fascists, they who want to finish
what Marx and Lennin started. It might just make a bit more sense to you.
Stay sane and starve a shrink... pass this around if it
makes sense to ya. Enjoy your day.
