I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week.
I started talking to my friend about some of the changes that are taking place, specifically, one of the features of the highways.
My friend said, “You’re just mad about the way they got the ballpark.”
I was surprised. I hadn’t said anything about the ballpark.
No, I said. I think they made a mistake with the ballpark, but I kind of admire the Putinesque way they did it, and that had nothing to do with what I was talking about. But he wanted to talk about the ballpark, I guess.
He said, “Well, I’m just glad that now I have a bar I can walk to.”
He lives in Sunset Heights, and he was talking about Blackbird. And then he walked off (not, as you might expect, to Blackbird).
Isn’t that what government’s about? Not social justice, or the good of the community. “What’s in it for me?”
All the ideologies, all the isms, are just camouflage packaging for self-interest. Big business wants less government interference. Government wants more government. Everybody wants more money.
Everybody’s right. Everybody’s wrong.
Nelson Van Alden said it last night on an episode of Boardwalk Empire.
“I used to believe in God. Now I don’t believe in anything.”
It’s a shame that your delusional, imbecilic friend is allowed to breed, because they usually end up breeding the same mindless and soulless garbage. Anyway, it’s an interesting theory that for the most part, big business actually enjoys an abundance of regulations so that small and medium-sized businesses won’t be able to “grow up” into competing big businesses. Just a theory.