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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 67 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/quovado/~3/285148977/community-debt.html
| ... aka, it's twenty 'til two and I can't sleep. I stayed up late waiting for the Indiana primary results to post. I can't tell you why - I only peripherally follow politics. I leave the nuts and bolts of that field to Squid - he cares way more than I do. Or, maybe, he still has faith that his voice counts for something. What got me thinking about debt, is indirectly related to the primary races that won't end - namely the issue of race and the reverend. I haven't really followed the story - clergy men and news cameras are rarely anything but a toxic combination. Reality: I feel like I live in a world where nothing is owed me. Bossman doesn't have to employ me. Drivers don't have to stay on their side of the double yellow. If I pack it, I carry it. I'm not owed courtesy (though it tees me off when I don't get it). Idea: Debt can only be created on the micro (individual) level by the person accepting the burden of the debt. That debt can be to another individual, an institution, or a whole passel of people. Idea: Becoming a debtor requires a personal decision to accept the perceived reality of something being owed to others. Idea: Attempts to assign debt to an individual or group don't assign debt - only punishment. If restitution (of what ever flavor) is assigned, the individual/group assigned the punishment lacks the personal agreement with the idea that something is owed to others. This was going somewhere seventeen minutes a ... |
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