It’s apple season. I’m harvesting apples today from my apple trees. I have red delicious and honeycrisp apples and it’s been cool enough that the sugars have concentrated. Seasonal timing is irrevocable and I should pull the apples off the tree so that they can be used before the hard freeze comes. Some apples have worms and I will cut them out of the cores and harvest the rest to preserve as apple butter or to make pies or to serve sliced apples as a side with meals. This is a delicious bounty from trees I planted years ago.

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It’s also election season. I see a lot of ad hominem attacks against either of the major candidates. I don’t care about that.

Some people posit a civil war is in the offing because the United States has become so polarized by algorithms on the internet. Those algorithms feed narrow information to internet readers that polarize their views more and more until everyone is mad at everyone else. But I don’t care about that except as something that is happening in the background.

Polarizing people keeps them from cooperating with each other and that’s too bad but it is a temporary problem. People are social. Eventually they will come together again. The power of algorithms isn’t infinite… or even definite.

I would like the vote to have greater fidelity. I want no more digital computer involvement in vote counting. No mail in ballots either. Vote in person on the day of the election. Why not make election day a holiday? And I want more cooperation to fix problems that we face as a nation. We still live in an economy that has scarcity. That means that we have to conserve resources and that when we spend money on one thing, we can’t also spend it on another.

Avoiding a legitimate accounting of government spending doesn’t lead to infinite money. It just leads to problems like those faced by the people who have been flooded out in Appalachia. They have not been getting all the help they need. Eventually, through the sacrifices of many other people, some of those Appalachian farmers are getting hay for their starving livestock and food and water for the people.

Good people try to help each other to have less suffering.

The days of insider access to government money by government people will eventually end. Financialization, interventionism, or if you prefer accelerationist policy will end. Because this is an economy where scarcity is eventually undeniable. The thieving people gaming the budget to keep a gravy train of money going to insiders will be stopped. They can’t keep gaming the system for themselves forever. Look at history. It will come to an end.

I hope it will end sooner so that good people can join together to fix what’s broken, return to rule of law governance and end corruption in our nation. Don’t we have important things to accomplish here? Planting an apple tree can provide years of fall harvests. We can learn to be a nation with a moral compass that points to a united America that strives for renewed prosperity that is widespread and lasting. Not through guile but through work.