On a personal note
POSTED BY: dreamtrove
UPDATED: Monday, February 20, 2006 05:22
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A little something about me.
When I was very young, my mother moved up to upstate New York, My dad stayed in Phildelphia. We lived in an empty stone castle, no electricity. It was sometimes cold, we were very poor. I made it through the first 5 years of school. Eventually, we got electricity, but grew a lot of our own food, we never got Tv, which eventually came to town. We got a computer when I was 13, and I started hacking in to video games, changing the code. I got pretty into it at some point. Played lots of D&D, got interested in stuff, science, politics. When I was 16 I went to college in Kentucky, I picked up a lot of lefty liberal views, spent way too much time partying, not enough time studying. Came back after two years, became a serious student, still a liberal, I went to marches and chanted stupid slogans like an automaton. Old farmers would tell me their views, in this little no horse town, well, lots of horses, no stoplights. They were all pretty conservative. I was pretty sure I was going to be nothing like them. I guess, time passed, I had various jobs, went several times to England, every couple of years, I have a friend there, he works for the UN, lives in a little no horse town with little stone houses, no stoplights. I've been to the city, live in a city, came back here. Fought for victories for liberal policy, won, seen it turn out really badly, read a lot of history, watched a lot of time roll by and see it all fall apart, consistantly. Now I grow tomatoes and sell books and rant at younger folk who think they know better. Funny thing is, to the people here, I'm that guy who knows about computers. It's all in your perspective. Across the street is a post office, where there are rows of little wooden boxes someone built up int he 1700s some time, postmaster there is a hunter, just gave up on Cheney. And next door there's a general store. It's been open and running for 220 years. The guy who runs it never got a computer. He says he means to someday, but he's not sure. They changed the cash register a couple years back, now they have one that adds. Other than that, it's pretty much the same. That's big change in my no horse town. I guess you could say, in short, like Riley Finn, I grew up in a Grant Wood painting. But it's not a Theme Park, this ain't no tourist town. No one ever comes here. This is America, and it still exists.
I guess, I've seen the other side. Bright lights, big city, everything moves pretty fast there. Then the in between, life ruled by convenience, the constant urban sprawl. I know when I look at the "no blue states" map, you've all seen it, I can see, blue cities, big red countryside. We're pretty conservative out here, I guess I'm not exception to that. Maybe it's because we have something to conserve. It'd probably all be Walmarts and condos before you know it we didn't. Maybe that's why a lot of places are all Walmarts and condos. I don't like that, wouldn't like it to happen here. I've been to Walmart, don't care for it. I like to go somewhere where i can hang around the counter and yack with the storekeeper about who's worse, Bush or Clinton. Neither of us is totally decided on the issue. The other night he gave me an underground tape full of stuff on Clinton. It was all pretty convincing. But then Bush is pretty bad. It's like coke and pepsi though, it's not really a contest, they can both suck equally.
The point of this little flavor piece is so that all you know more or less where I'm coming from. If something on the left if bugging me, it's usually because that's something I tried, took me some years to figure out was wrong, and now I'm pretty sure it's wrong, and don't want to go back to it. Not that everything the left ever says is wrong, I never said that. A lot of it, but, keep coming up with new ideas. There always have to be new ideas. But like after you try planting tomatoes too close, and the leave touch and some fungus jumps from one to another, you lose the crop, and then you don't try it againg, that sort of thing. Some stuff is just pretty much prov
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