Monday is what we call a “holiday”, the word rooted in “Holy Day” or, at the very least, a day of celebration. It’s one of the lost days of our calendar in the sense that very few people seem to understand that Labor Day was a day meant to celebrate the simple fact that everything we have was made by the efforts of someone otherwise unnamed. It was a day on the opposite side of Summer from May Day, when the rest of the world celebrates the same thing. That was colored with the memories of the Haymarket Riot and nasty stories from Europe. This is a day to celebrate American Labor – and the Union movement that brought us the weekend, among other things.
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Unheeded
Perhaps it’s just the waning warmth of summer closing around me like a blanket on a fall day, but I’ve had a feeling lately. Events have conspired to make me think about the long term perspective on what is going on in our world, the bigger picture that I like to think is what I do best. Digging into this feeling with a series of internet searches uncovered a wealth of information that I have to share so that, if nothing else, you can all make your own conclusions about things.
Jefferson versus Hamilton
I use Barataria to throw out a few ideas and new perspectives that I’m not entirely sure of myself. I hope you see this as a way of thinking out loud. Difficult social topics are rarely settled in one person’s mind, no matter how much they are mulled over. I want to take the time to tell you where I’ve been going with some of this and see what you think.
Awfully Artificial
Words mean things, or so the saying goes. Unfortunately, things change so words have to change. That’s where it gets interesting.
Sixteen Tons
I have proposed that understanding the connections that make up a system give us a greater insight into how that system will respond to the stresses of change than any kind of institutional or academic perspective. My readers have responded by demanding specific examples, so I thought I’d start with the big one: Health Care. The system we have was developed from the connections of a time that has long passed but once made sense. This becomes important because most of the current proposals reflect the connections of our time – meaning we could be making the same mistakes all over again.
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