July 10, 2006 – I Will Do it Tomorrow

That was my slogan all weekend long. I did manage to at least manage mow the lawn on Saturday, but that was about it. I still have a ton of gardening and edging to do. I slept most of the day on Friday. Terri tried to wake me up by calling me 45 times. I did manage to wake up in time to have dinner with my family. It was nice to have everyone there. Peyton had a huge bump on his head from where he fell at Sea World. It was pretty bad. Robin had to take him to the hospital for a CAT scan to make sure everything was OK.

Saturday after mowing the lawn I went out to my parents to visit and have dinner. My dad bought a new computer. I am pretty sure the only reason he bought it was so that he would have one more thing to complain about. While I was out there Boo Boo ran away twice chasing deer. Saturday night I went out with Dave, Boris, and Julie. Julie just bought a 2003 MR2 Spider. Man is that a sweet car. Dave also got a new toy. He got himself a motorcycle. With everyone getting new stuff I feel left out. I want a new toy.

Sunday I was the biggest bum in the whole world. I only left the house one to get lunch with George. George is pretty lucky I put pants on for that outing. And after that there was a whole lot of nothing going on. I did not even watch the world cup. I did manage to watch the penalty kicks at the end, but I basically missed the entire game. 1 to 1 sounds like my decision to watch my grass grow was just as action filled. Sorry to all ya’ll soccer fans, but it has to be the most boring game ever. In base ball at least something happens every once in a while.

I was reading my favorite forum today and someone posted a link to something the founder of Whole Foods wrote. link It is basically about his belief in Libertarian. He does a pretty good job of pointing out some of the mistakes of the Libertarian movement. However he dose seem to get a little idealistic about some things, but aren’t political beliefs fairly idealistic at there core. One thing he dose bring up as being a fundamental part of Libertarianism that I see as being it’s biggest obstacle is this thing he calls Social Responsibility. This is the idea that it is a person’s duty to society that when they have sufficiently satisfied our needs we then turn around and start helping those around us. In liberalism this social responsibility is mandated and force upon society, while in conservatism it is largely ignored and delegated to charitable societies.

Last week I unfairly commented on a show I have not yet seen when trying to point out my disapproval of people promoting theories as facts in order to push an agenda. And some people took it to mean that I do not believe that our energy consumption is having negative effects on our environment. That could not be further from the truth. Currently it seems as though our approach to reducing energy consumption is taking a very libertarian approach. Everyone do what you can at your own pace. The result being, the limiting factor of Libertarianism, that no one is willing to make sacrifices for anyone else if they do not have to and thus noting is getting done.

So my questions for this week is: Is Libertarianism a viable political belief? Can Social Responsibility be taught, and if so how?