Nirvana

I think that's what Nirvana means, "nothingness". The Hindus consider this to be a good thing. Their lives are so crummy that they consider being reincarnated a punishment. Like you said, once they get it right, they go into Nirvana, which, to them, is the most desirable state of being. In Nirvana, your individual consciousness is subsumed into the consciousness of the Creator, from whence it originally came. If I was a Hindu, I would try to make sure that I ever got good enough for Nirvana. I wouldn't want to be too bad, though, because then I might come back as something that I don't want to be, like a liberal.

I saw on the news tonight that we may not be done with Afghanistan at the end of the year after all. Obama wants to keep 10,000 soldiers there to prevent the Taliban from re-establishing itself, which they already are starting to do. I said way back when this first got started that, if the Taliban people were smart, they would just quit fighting for awhile so the Americans could declare victory and go home. After that, they could come crawling out of their caves and soon be back in business.

I also saw that he wants to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. One might think that I would be against that, but I'm not. I said a long time ago that it was silly to still be mad at Cuba after kissing up to Red China for all these years. Who knows? Cuba, like Red China, might become corrupted by exposure to American capitalism. They would still call themselves communists, but they would in fact be decadent materialists just like us.

My daughter, who is generally a liberal, said something on Face Book the other day that warmed her daddy's heart. She was responding to someone who was complaining about the power wielded by the big corporations. My daughter said that she would rather see the country run by corporations than by politicians. Corporations generally make money for their employees and their stockholders, while the politicians just squander their citizens' money and ask for more. Somebody else cut in and asked what she thought about all those corporate bailouts. Jenny said that just proves that businessmen are smarter than politicians. Too bad we can't get her to join the Institute, but she is much too busy for that.