Injustice

Disassembling things into their constituent parts has its value. Take the justice system, or don't and call it the injustice system, as I do. I was stopped by two officers in a squad car the other day for failing to stop at a stop sign, on my bicycle that is. I proceeded to tell them that even though one cop came off as an asshole and told me I should check myself into a psychiatric ward, I had the feeling they were both good cops but more importantly good men. I commenced to tell them I respected and saw the value in domestic civil defense, but I lamented the fact that the injustice system undermined their desire to solve social problems and create better communities. The system is another money game in which the judiciary hands down incarceration instead of just punishment being handed by and representative of the collective or people. So the punishment which comes is in the form of sexual assault, gang, ethnic, and racial violence from other prisoners, who are not the executioners of justice from the collective. They are rather people all waiting for a justice never to come except in the form of proxies who are in no position to fill that role. Justice to me is the justice of a father who punishes in the moment of fault, then picks back up saying "now let's go fulfill your potential". This incarceration is in The School of Criminality and one becomes a full time student to survive. This ensures a revolving door in which potentially good men are taken out of communities and sent to a place to become bad men. This is good for judges, it ensures a necessity for their continued existence. Good for the the construction companies which continue to build the prisons. Good for the powerful correctional officers union, one of the few remaining viable unions. This is not even a union which represents valuable craftsmanship, yet it remains, a symbol of social failure. Does anyone else see the folly, insanity, and shortsightedness? The dark haired officer with the German last name did, as he is on the front line of this battle, and he told me I was free to go, without writing me a ticket. Some of the things which must be changed wait for the old generation to die off. It is up to mine and my sister's generation, for even my brother's generation is far to establishment. Adam Smith has nothing to say in this day and time, as many others do not (Machiavelli for example). Ask any woman who has birthed a child which is harder, to create or destroy. That is the place we are at, awaiting the creation of the constructs of our own heart, I say let's pick up the pace and create civil society groups we agree with more than half the time. You?