And so,

I have often been concerned with the very confusing relationship between what

is called " conservative " and the alternative " liberal ".  I can't say very much

about what this relationship is exactly.  That is not at all clear in my mind

but I thought I might address another issue which is communism and

capitalism. 

And so, when I was younger, when I first read " I Robot ", I had a pretty clear

memory of being extremely frightened about communists because they

had big bombs and they wanted to drop them, on well, me, and my city, and

I actually did not know clearly what a " communist " was, although I did read 

something about that in the newspaper.  

And of course when I got a little bit older, we fought a war about it.  A very

disturbing war, that many people today would just as soon forget.  At that

time, I knew a bit more about it, but I could not say I understood it.  And

honestly today, pretty much the same thing.

Of course, when I think about it , the - what is not communist -, meaning

capitalist, I really don't understand that  much better.  Obviously it has

something to do with " capital " which is not very well defined, in my

mind.  

Now, at this point in my life, I just try not to think about it all that much,

because for me these " relationships ", these very stark distinctions about

how to think about things, how to view things ... although they may have

important meanings at some level, really, I am not sure what they do mean.

Of course we still have history.  What history really points out is --- do 

onto others --- usually worse than they might want to do to you.  

Of course, we never really know, what they might want to do.

Sometimes, I think that , learning something from history could 

be helpful.