Crushing Krisis

Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand

college

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I might start writing News for our school paper, the triangle. Or maybe not. I honestly don’t have any time to do it this term, but they are incredibly short-staffed right now and i would be just about the only Journalism major working there, so it’s a hard thing to refuse. My basic qualification is that i want to keep writing Entertainment pieces for them, and if i can do both then i’m willing. It would be nice to be an Editor by Junior year, so that i could use that on resumes. Cause, i actually want to do something with my life. Sometimes.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/10/1213120/

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Grawr! In a nasty nasty turn of events, my RealAudio software just expired and i need to get new versions. This blows, because i can’t work on Trio without RealAudio. What’s that? I should be writing my paper? Nonsense! Papers are written in the AM!

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/10/1209832/

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Of course, taking communism in practice is even a step beyond Marxist theories, since Marx didn’t consider himself a Marxist. He said that society was growing towards freedom the way an acorn grows to a tree: inevitable unless totally crushed. He listed the progression as from tribal to city-state to feudal to capitalist to communism. But, truly, how will communism lead to freedom? If anything, it would seem to lead to an eventual break back into a tribal system where there is no established base of power or wealth. Thus, Communism is only the end of our evolution to freedom in that it would send us irrevocably back to the beginning. As such, it is like an apocalypse from which we can never emerge unscathed; the subversive atom bomb of society. God save us.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/10/1180233/

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Maybe i’m just too deeply entrenched in capitalism, but i think communism is a digression in society rather than forward progress. I like to be able to have power, i like to make more money for doing a better job, and i like democratic governments. I realize that an ideal commune would give everyone power & choice and that everyone would be driven to do their best at every job, but after the collection of individuals increased past even 100 i don’t think the system could be upheld anymore. A husband and wife can barely share their power; how can 50 people living on a farm do it?

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/10/1180211/