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Thursday September 24, 2009 A good day. That is, a day on which I felt good.
***In the window of the Records Collectors Co-op: a barf bag for the movie Mark of the Devil.
***Tried the computers at Powderhorn Park, for the first time in a while. Almost all the sites I wanted to use were blocked. At least, walking there had given me a bit of exercise.
***At May Day Coffeehouse, a poster for a free waffle dinner by the RNC 8 at Walker Church. "Waffles 8 different ways or your money back." (The RNC 8 were among people arrested for protesting the Republican National Convention. Why ever was that convention held in the Twin Cities? In Minneapolis, the Republicans are a third party in local elections. St. Paul is a bit friendlier to Republicans and conservatives, but probably less so than San Francisco.)
***Walking north on Bloomington Avenue, passed the political junk sculpture at 33rd and Bloomington. Among its many components: a blackface Santa Claus, a small boat, an oil drum, and several American flags in at least two mediums.
***On to Mercado Central on Lake Street, where I hadn't been for a while. The store whose wares include games had what I first thought were some variation of tarot cards. However, they were for playing "Mexican bingo." (The quotes are because I have no idea how closely it resembles bingo.)
The Spanish-language bookstore had a book about the Da Vinci Code by Jose A. Solis. It also had other conspiracy books; for example, one about the Templars.
The clothing store now has school uniforms.
Took the #21 bus on Lake Street. Passed Kaplan Brothers, which mostly sells work clothing. They also now have school uniforms.
***Thought a bit about one aspect of anarchism which I've never seen discussed: What happens to government property? Some agencies might be spun off as cooperatives or private companies. The US Government might become a temporary cooperative, existing as such long enough to hold a going out of business sale. And no doubt there are other solutions, some better-thought-out than mine. But they haven't been discussed, at least not anywhere I've seen.
Digression: In the 1970s, one member of an APA (amateur press association) I was in explained that the triumph of anarcho-capitalism wouldn't mean anyone losing their jobs. I asked what would happen to government employees.
Oh, they would be in reeducation camps.
Followed after a while by -"You mean you guys didn't realize I was joking?"-
One anarchistic sf novel did partially answer that question. In Cyril Kornbluth's _The Syndic_, the New York Police Department is still operating -- though it no longer interferes with the activities of the people now running things. (The novel is an ambiguous utopia, in which organized crime is degenerating into government.)
***To my ACA meeting (Adult Children [of alcoholic and dysfunctional families] Anonymous.)
Twelve-step groups are anarchistic; more so than some anarchist organizations, and far more so than the Libertarian Party. (To be fair: the Libertarian Party looks forward to the withering away of the state after a transition period, rather than an immediate change. Perhaps it should form a coalition with an older party whose ideals include gradual abolition of government -- the Communist Party USA.)
***In the window of the Records Collectors Co-op: a barf bag for the movie Mark of the Devil.
***Tried the computers at Powderhorn Park, for the first time in a while. Almost all the sites I wanted to use were blocked. At least, walking there had given me a bit of exercise.
***At May Day Coffeehouse, a poster for a free waffle dinner by the RNC 8 at Walker Church. "Waffles 8 different ways or your money back." (The RNC 8 were among people arrested for protesting the Republican National Convention. Why ever was that convention held in the Twin Cities? In Minneapolis, the Republicans are a third party in local elections. St. Paul is a bit friendlier to Republicans and conservatives, but probably less so than San Francisco.)
***Walking north on Bloomington Avenue, passed the political junk sculpture at 33rd and Bloomington. Among its many components: a blackface Santa Claus, a small boat, an oil drum, and several American flags in at least two mediums.
***On to Mercado Central on Lake Street, where I hadn't been for a while. The store whose wares include games had what I first thought were some variation of tarot cards. However, they were for playing "Mexican bingo." (The quotes are because I have no idea how closely it resembles bingo.)
The Spanish-language bookstore had a book about the Da Vinci Code by Jose A. Solis. It also had other conspiracy books; for example, one about the Templars.
The clothing store now has school uniforms.
Took the #21 bus on Lake Street. Passed Kaplan Brothers, which mostly sells work clothing. They also now have school uniforms.
***Thought a bit about one aspect of anarchism which I've never seen discussed: What happens to government property? Some agencies might be spun off as cooperatives or private companies. The US Government might become a temporary cooperative, existing as such long enough to hold a going out of business sale. And no doubt there are other solutions, some better-thought-out than mine. But they haven't been discussed, at least not anywhere I've seen.
Digression: In the 1970s, one member of an APA (amateur press association) I was in explained that the triumph of anarcho-capitalism wouldn't mean anyone losing their jobs. I asked what would happen to government employees.
Oh, they would be in reeducation camps.
Followed after a while by -"You mean you guys didn't realize I was joking?"-
One anarchistic sf novel did partially answer that question. In Cyril Kornbluth's _The Syndic_, the New York Police Department is still operating -- though it no longer interferes with the activities of the people now running things. (The novel is an ambiguous utopia, in which organized crime is degenerating into government.)
***To my ACA meeting (Adult Children [of alcoholic and dysfunctional families] Anonymous.)
Twelve-step groups are anarchistic; more so than some anarchist organizations, and far more so than the Libertarian Party. (To be fair: the Libertarian Party looks forward to the withering away of the state after a transition period, rather than an immediate change. Perhaps it should form a coalition with an older party whose ideals include gradual abolition of government -- the Communist Party USA.)