yeah. if i'm going to bother deconstructing the paine, i should deconstruct the burke first. i knew i picked up something by burke at a garage sale (i wouldn't expect to connect with burke too deeply, but for a quarter, you garb something like that), but wasn't sure if it was the reflections on the revolution. it was. so, that first, then the paine.

in fact, i'm certain i picked the paine & burke up at the same garage sale. somebody must have taken a course...probably 50 years ago.

well, actually, the editions are '87 and '92.

so, i'm considering setting my clock to cst. i live in the eastern time zone. allow me to explain.

i grew up in ottawa, which is several hundred kilometres east of where i am now, windsor. so, the sun came up earlier there, and set a little earlier as well. yet, i always wanted the sun to come up even earlier, not later. drats. foiled. yet, i feel if i set my clocks to cst, it will overcompensate in the direction i'd prefer.

then i started wondering if maybe everybody was on cst anyways, and it's weird that i'm still on est.

well, you'd have to think that a substantial number of people in the est edge of the midwest live on cst. those boundaries are probably merely a suggestion.

"see, this is why we can't have anarchism - i bet they think they can just pick their own time zones"

stuck in the middle of an alley closing in on all sides (bandstand mix) (original upload)

i downloaded bandstand for the drums because the way i wrote the track required something that would read general midi through track 10. these are the drums that will be worked into the final mix. it's basically a way to play old midi files through vst, so i figure it qualifies as a different card mix.

written in early 2001. initially rendered feb 12, 2014.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/bandstand-mix

you know, i admit i've got it pretty good living in the heart of a white supremacist, colonial empire. but am i supposed to want to exchange it for packaging socks in a factory? movements that place labour at the core of a moral outlook frighten me.\

but i realize it's unfair to dump it off to some other entire universe, under conditions of almost literal slavery. so, automation.

it seems to be that the global economy is distributing resources more fairly than we'd like to realize. we're just looking at a different level of fairness than the economy is, if i can anthropomorphize the economy for a moment. see, when the economy sees wealth distribution, it thinks of it in terms of data collections, which correspond with rules put in place by modern countries, or perhaps trade blocks - or even more precisely blocks within trade blocks. so, it thinks that the level of wealth in spain should be closer to the mean level of wealth, which happens to be a much lower standard of living. meanwhile, conditions are improving very slightly in large, developing economies. so, it's a transfer of wealth from certain more wealthy areas to certain less wealthy areas. that's a more even distribution, in that sense. that process is also happening in more developed economies, but is taking longer to collapse because they're more developed. look at detroit.

of course, profits are being hoarded by an elite, so we speak of inequality - and are correct to. but it obscures the global homogenization of class that an open economy is allowing, making middle and working class conditions (finally) roughly comparable on a global scale. the open economy still has a lot to do in reshaping global wealth distribution to establish that comparison without being trivializing, but it is the trajectory that the global economy is heading in.

the flaw in understanding equality like this is that it conceptually separates control into two classes - a global controlling class and a global consuming class. the consuming class may be homogenized, perhaps even to the benefit of the controlling class, but it must be limited in resources to a fixed percentage, while the controlling class takes...control....of virtually all the resources. we must necessarily fall for people in other countries to rise, because we're budgeted to share a resource allowance.

to get to thinking about solutions that increase global living conditions without impacting living conditions in the empire requires discussing ways to go into the bank accounts of the controllers. i'd openly advocate that in as blunt terms as that.

once the resource allocation has been adjusted to more reasonable levels, a global homogenization of class sounds like an acceptable outcome. so, automation for all, then.

to put it another way, maybe you've seen the memes about rising income inequality in north america. the rising inequality is also a global equalization trend, in terms of how wealth is distributed to consumers.