Contemplation February 17, 2017

Maybe we should be selective in which factories we bring back. Are they loose on environmental standards enforcement? What about labor unions? Fair wage could bring up the cost of production…are corporation willing to reduce their cut? Or are they just jerking the markets around? Property values go up? But fewer can afford them?
So many questions, so many factors. Are we going to be surprised the prisons are full again? Human misery is “good economy”? What did you fight for when you were 20 and 30 something? My generation wanted peace (well my local soft leftist high-school did) and more “field trips” out to the wildly relevant -Steam Anchor Brewery- No, we didn’t get to drink it (school accreditation at stake)
I guess we weren’t all that radical. and then again my first orientation with my new classmates was a field trip to Big Sur (why the school chose there,…I don’t remember because flow of time space changed, this was the occasion where I first experienced effective cannabis high whereas all previous exposure to the herb was dull and no more buzz than a cigaret (them foolish White Boys in Alameda) Further – more, on returning from the trip to Big Sur (where I sanded the top of my feet by standing stoned in the edge of surf) same classmates begged a sleep-over in the classrooms since many lived far away and would have to turn right back around the next morning to attend classes. I don’t recall