economics meets environment

In economics the demand curve starts out with a high price, and it goes down with quantity. The reason is because we get more benefit from the first drink of water than from the 100th. We only need so much water. Too much and it might be negative. For example, people would have paid money to have the water from Hurricane Katrina not come. The same insight reveals how we aren't increasing the wellbeing of society by having more billionares at the expense of more debtors. The billionaires can only buy so much welfare for themselves. I read in a sociology critique of economics that wellbeing stops to go up with more money after people have 8,000 dollars a year or so. For 8 billion dollars I read that everyone in the world could have fresh water. That would benefit people much more than Bill Gates having 8 billion more dollars. Our obsession with GDP is propaganda therefore. It would increase GDP tremendously to build expensive nuclear weapons and B2 bombers, destroy cities, clean up the waste very expensively, and rebuild the cities. But it wouldn't increase welfare at all. If we were able to get everyone in the world clean water, it wouldn't add to GDP, but it would help welfare tremendously. Economists don't know ecology. Their theories aren't keeping track of habitat loss and pollution. There are potential theories in economics that could help with these things such as the theory of externalities. It says that economic transactions effect more than the buyer and the seller and the price of the good should be influenced by the third part effects. For example consuming coal and oil and meat is causing global warming. If we taxed the emissions equal to the amount of damage that these transactions caused in global warming, then global warming would stop. This is an economic theory. But freemarkets won't bring the best solution. If you don't tax it and you want to stop global warming, you need more of a planned economy like the socialists or communists would build. I believe you can have a socialist democracy. I don't believe we should abandon democracy.

song

the hindus said I'd be reborn
and I said OK
but I don't know
I don't know that I'll live another day

Brahma Vishnu Shiva
what do you have to say
because I don't know
I don't know that I'll ever see your face


I came up with that as a song. It sounds pretty good when I sing it. I think it's catchy.

I also came up with the line
I'm sadder than Saturn
and I'm sadder than Neptune, but it doesn't necessarily fit with the other lines.

more dream segments

Playing as Mario inside a video game. Running, and Bowser does blasts I jump over. I get a diamond star and then a gold one. Standing in line worrying about how short I am. Trying to light a lighter. I see a chart of Buddhist lineages hand drawn in my own handwriting, the lighter won't light. Kerchanin dancing. Frozen ice, trying to get home, but too much ice. Driving a car with two people in it. It ends up underwater. We keep going into a junkyard with underwater oars that are fakes, we can't get out. Popcorn falling out of a bag. More than fits in it. Football. There's a fence in the way. Beautiful woman around this huge table smiling at me as I walk around. I'm following one and then see all the others smiling and forget. There are wine glasses all around. I start accelerating up like through a star. Something about my savings being good, one girl has something writtten on the outside of her hand.
I was in an auditorium or theatre. Everyone started shouting out their favorite career. I shouted out actor, someone shouted Moses, I said Prophet, toymaker, toytester. Someone came up behind me and it looked like Charles Haitjema, then it was Sam Guerin. He said he scanned me with his creative energy and when that happens emanations usually pop out of a person but it didn't work.

I had things, little sticks stuck in my mouth and gums I was pulling out. Video game characters playing a video game from outside. Playing pool Zac Catozzi. Aleister Crowley quiz. Hamster. cooked. cleaned up a kitchen. a solar city.
flying jet airplanes on ground, in sky, in video games, in life.
reading books on spirituality, running over all the walls. colorful books. worksheet. quadratic formula. beautiful women.

consciousness can't be particles

The body is made of particles. The atoms that make us up are made of protons neutrons and elelctrons. Consciousness cannot be matter. If consciousness were matter we'd be experientially aware that our particles are moving near or at the speed of light. We can't perceive this, so how can consciousness be from the particles?

california dreams

I'm in California. I'm doing some meditation and tai chi on my own. I got a catolog of the community college, and I want to take physics and Calculus. I took calculus in high school, but I plan to retake it and then go on to more calculus. I'm staying at my Aunt Moe's house. Her partner John, said he'd teach me art. I've been recording my dreams. I'll post some here:
playing soccer Tim Fisher
Fire benders, someone made of fire at a party. Jedi. Video games.
fingers up a woman's pussy.
a mermaid.
I'm in an apartment and I hear Ryder coming
I'm at a store and want a sandwich but they all have meat. I buy a medicine and spill it all over the floor.
B4, India guy is teaching me
I was at a school packing up for year end
thinking about how keeping folders empty helps
two girls in class tell me I should go abroad
I say I want to learn shamanism from South America and Buddhism from Tibet or India.
Standing on shoulders, lot's of people stacked on each other in a pool. a net falls down.
a pamphlet about einstein's relativity
running, a girl, some sort of giant game
a basketball player
A popup where a baseball player makes it to first base then throws the ball and does this twice to make it home. A tennis player, skinny guy, tells me he's the best in the country. I ask him to teach me.
waiting for a tidal wave at the Bloomington house with a large party of people. We're on the second floor and the water makes it up that high.
working at a grocery store, A woman wants apples and leaves her wallet, I give it back. I don't know how to do the job. Natasha takes a picture of me and Nate.
Playing golf
I was crawling to cross a street
b4, mad at Kuten Lama, talking with Zac Catozzi and David Sonneborn.

a table with food on it, me and dad, all the food slides off.
I was eating a meal with a girl, brown hair, not too skinny. Two people had sex at a nearby table. I was editing my homework and sharpening my pencil on someone's head. I asked if Bracey Wright made it to the NBA. Paying someone to let me in the door from cold.
Nuclear submarines at US door. 5,000 dollars in weapons like fireworks, a red missile launch. I tell 'em not to fire because of the subs, what we have is more like fireworks. Riding the red dragon, a bouncing barn, a kid wants off it.
Nick Wickstrom, he punches my fists and kicks my feet as I kick his and punch his. Dr. Rakic at a store. A yahweh card. I have no money. excited about the lotus sutra. throwing beads away. I bow down to ujjenla.
at a video store looking for a movie. we decide on patience, a movie about waiting for the proper time to have sex. I see Anna working on a puzzle. The whole floor is covered in puzzle pieces. The girl I was on a date with looked like Emily (I don't remember which Emily). She said I worked. Driving with Allison and Joe. Crows, satanic Christians of Ann.