i started out to blog back on May 1st.... then i thought that i could start on the first day of summer.. i gave that up and hoped for labor day.. but burning man led to focussing on starting now on the first days of fall 2004...
why am i doing this? because there seems to be a limit to the wilingness of bloggers to actually espouse radical progressive agendas. too many conservatives have found that by flaming on weblogs that ostensibly support liberal themes, they can shut out the discussion of issues. they rage in vitrolic venomous bile, insulting and denigrating as their cohorts on Fox and other far-right conservative have shown them how to do. we need more succinct voices from the far left to begin to move the political and social discussion from the moderate right to at least the center if not a teeny tiny bit left of center.
thus i post. how radical shall i be. well Negri posited some theses for this in his book Empire, albeit getting the big stuff wrong. he, and his co-author, supported the economic empowerment of the people through community efforts to dictate local prices for global products. establishing the real cost of consumables is essential to creating an equitable society. and the most significant consumable commodity is health care. the flu season is almost upon us. millions of US citizens have no ability to pay for health care, but they will get sick, and they will share their flu and viral infections with their communities. it will be imperative that health care systems ignore insurance corporate profits and HMO orders in order to facilitate the care of whole communities.