Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

VERY HARD TIME THE PAST FEW WEEKS

(venting)

I had to miss our London conference, and it was possibly one of the most saddening times of my life. For about a week I couldn’t sleep. And at present I’m still in limbo waiting for the government to process forms. (argh)

Meanwhile, no income, no access to funds, and the level of person you deal with who has total control over your life, is one step above Guido the mobster. Most IRS people appear to be lower middle class and upper proletarian bill collectors, with the same ethical standard.

Its not even that I can’t or won’t pay any given fine. It’s that I can’t get access to money because they use bureaucracy as a weapon of punishment.

This is one of the problems with the ‘aristocracy of everybody’ nonsense of the enlightenment. The cops are from the upper proletariat, the government workers are from the middle and upper proletariat, and the management is from the lower middle class.

Government is, by and large, the refuge of the lower classes.

I am fairly sure that aristocracy is better than proletarian statism.

Some day’s you’re just twiddling with some little bit of text, trying to fit it into the broader puzzle of your argument, and something just dawns on you, and … boom.. you’re both elated, and you feel painfully stupid that you didn’t think of it before.

It’s awesome. It’s just awesome.

It’s like finding a present in the mail. 🙂