That’s a reference to the Drake and Rihanna song currently sweeping the nation…for anyone not in the know. Had a good work day today. One of the best so far this month 😛 It was touch and go to start with, but then it rallied big time. So, that’s nice.
No writing again today…guys, tomorrow, I need you to hold me accountable: I *must* do my writing hour tomorrow. It doesn’t HAVE to be first thing in the day. If there are narrations to snag before someone else grabs them all, then I will do those…but the writing MUST happen. It just must.
Have a solid lead on getting this second apartment rented already. This would be the first time I’ve ever had two units and not even had to put either of them on the “market.” The rental market in LA is strong, yo. For realsies. Crazy right now. I wonder why. I wonder what factors drive things like the rental market. It must be jobs. OR, it’s how high housing prices are, ie- people would be buying houses, but the prices are so high, they’re like “fuck it, I’ll just rent until the market comes down.” I bet that’s it, the latter. House prices ARE cray right now.
Coops is currently falling asleep on my lap. He really, REALLY wants me to go to bed, but last night, my iPad kept up the Ho and she had a very early call. So, I’m writing this from the office. He still needs to go out and go potty, we’ll do that in a minute. He’s so devoted to me, the Coops. He really is. My little companion. My shadow. Always wants to know what I’m doing. Watching the castle. Being a rapscallion.
So yeah…writing. These last round of edits on Icarus, and then next week…it’s time to tackle the Starstuff rewrite. YES. So looking forward to that.
I missed talking about the “outside” world with the last couple late-night blog entries, so tonight it’s on some buzzwords this election season. The first being: Socialism. Socialism is not Communism. Communism is a FORM of Socialism, but they are not the same thing. Socialism, in its correct modern usage, is “a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production.” That is to say, it’s the belief that the “people” at-large should have ownership over their own economic system through their representative government. Communism is “a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property.” Literally, that the people should live in commonly owned land, “communes.” One is a broad range of economic systems, the other is an extreme of that principle.
Communism doesn’t fucking work, guys. You have to have a marketplace, and you have to let people own things. To completely strip that way is antithetical to human nature. But…news flash…so is the Free Market. The free market is “an economic market or system in which prices are based on competition among private businesses and not controlled by a government.” NO control. None. Yeah…well, we tried that, and it failed too. Kids were losing their lives in factories, companies were pooling their resources to ensure absolute dominance and control, and cities were becoming unlivable from pollution. That, too, is against human nature…to let ourselves act like animals and not protect the weak and work together for a common good.
A Capitalist government and a Socialist government lie somewhere in the middle of Communism and a Free Market. “Socialism” is not a dirty word. Neither is “Capitalism.” The key lies in a balance between the two, and even in America, there are things that can and SHOULD be controlled by the “people” and not by competition. Just because someone wants to “socialize” something like health care doesn’t fucking mean that person is a communist. They’re not the same fucking thing. Disagree with the idea, sure…but keep your facts straight and stay away from hyperbole and logical fallacies.
There is not a shred of me that wishes to live in a communist country. Not a single atom. But Universal Healthcare? I’m on that train in a hot second. See how that works?