Level Fields

We live in an era of Milton Friedman revisionists, from the mostly dynamic Niall Ferguson globe trotting around colonial Africa, to Cato Institute free marketers like Johan Norberg and detractors like Naomi Klein, and the majority of ADAPT activists do not have the acumen to follow my line of thought here, or to even understand why it matters. It is not their fault, but the evil lies in disability center enforced egalitarianism, which my regulars know traumatized me very badly, although it was my failure, when emailing Niall, which for me was a tribute, since it takes more than intelligence to rise to prominence in the way he has managed, that he responded he was sorry for my situation. No. I wanted him to apply that Scottish mettle of his to grind independent living ideology into a fine pulp, as I cannot do it myself; these two poles represent my interior suspended animation. I am not able bodied enough for Harvard, and not compliant enough for pukeville Stalinist paradigms like Liberty Resources, and am not a purist, either to free market ideology lifting even the poorest individuals into more equality, or a socialist who wants to rectify the injustice of destructive disparity. Niall might argue he isn't a purist either, but if I substitute Norberg's cell phone in his video for a semi-automatic, I think the gospel of fundamental capitalism exposes its flaws, flaws that keep liberals in business. Treating guns and military hardware as a commodity has destroyed many of those disadvantaged humans, those who Niall might argue ultimately benefited from his killer apps, and I cannot quite balance gun manufacturer profits and urban warfare that spreads from the declining US into its Latin American hemisphere like a cancer. An Adapter might argue that where they elevate Cassie and her polemical nonsense, I weigh her down. That is true. My former supervisor Linda could not be trusted to the extent that I did trust her, or tried to, but neither can Cassie be trusted, and this is not due to the fact that I knew her when, and remain unimpressed, and think that Liberty makes her indispensable at the expense of others more deserving, but aside from that issue, I cannot believe in any activist, no matter how out there, who after thirty years, cannot address the bigotry within independent living centers themselves. Cassie might say she tried to make up for what Linda's humiliating behavior did to me, and this is true. She wanted me  to do a grant proposal, and I could not. Linda C Dezenski is still at helm of whatever range her leash allows, but more than that, disability centers need to be abolished for the very sake of social equality, and I will activate myself to this end until my death, but will add one more thing: Cassie taking me out for pizza when she lived in the same public housing paradigm I cannot escape wasn't the least empowering. Going to see a Chagall exhibit with my friend Tom Reid was. Why? My intelligence was respected in the latter.