Wednesday, March 04, 2015
System(s)
Property
-When it was decreed that everyone own land,
some purchased just a few square feet.
-Largely symbolic?
-You can say that again! Just enough room for him
to stand, but John Q has the harrowing fantasy that
someone wants to take it away!
-Thus, arguments?
-Add shootings and wars!
-Therefore, Property is evil!
-Nonsense! The System will work admirably if
everyone just calms down.
-You could say that for any System.
-And will.
Labels: arguments, Capitalism, property, shootings, socialism, system, violence, war
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
“My Family Gave Me Nothing
except, by a series
of legal accidents,
the barn of a house.
Room after dripping room with
grim ancestors staring down
the years though
grimy frames. I auctioned off all
of it. Alien Nouveau
Riches dancing at their
winning bid. How soon awful
odors will drift through the ultra
neighborhood! Framed personages
now claimed as theirs. It's all
from Gilbert and...
Solomon!”
except, by a series
of legal accidents,
the barn of a house.
Room after dripping room with
grim ancestors staring down
the years though
grimy frames. I auctioned off all
of it. Alien Nouveau
Riches dancing at their
winning bid. How soon awful
odors will drift through the ultra
neighborhood! Framed personages
now claimed as theirs. It's all
from Gilbert and...
Solomon!”
Labels: ancestors, anti-Semitic, foreigners, Gilbert and Sullivan, property, wealth
