Rules to live buy if you are me (Draft, can't keep eyes awake)

1. Don't give a shit about weather predictions. First of all you don't know how weather works. Just because you hear the weather man describe in it some bull shit scientific discourse that he learned in a textbook produced to condition the masses to think a certain way, doesn't mean that his or her description of the nor'easter is apriori. As the weather person, no fuck it weather man, why try to be politically correct and mask the social relations that are taking place, uses a model that was created by a Norwegian dude who had no way of measuring things in a way we might consider scientific. When these readings were taken, well the measure worked, the same goes for Eratosthenes, who was able to surmise the circumference of the work, being part of the same tradition, our scientific measures come to similar results. Ok, so yes our very categories for knowledge, their construction, the way we quantify, conceptualize, and measure, solid supposed unchanging things in (not of) space, comes out of this tradition or epistme. So, anyway this way of seeing the weather is but one way of course. I will not here about the fetishization of technology and what it tells us, because as we practically know, the weatherman is usually wrong, he whines about how complex this thing the weather is. But weather is a process ofcourse that is physical, but also a constructed measure linked to our expectations (are floods or snow storms normal), and ofcourse our mode of production or the economic superstructure. That being, in a system in which the production of surplus labor is paramount, and our function is two be a productive force in this process, weather becomes something important in certain conditions. Freezing rain and black ice, are not only connected to the automobile, which ofcourse are produced out of the coercive laws of capitalist competition, which simultaneously attempt to give profit to the individual capitalist while lowering the value of labor power. The latter gets complex, when we start discussing the size of a commuting area, and a metropolis. The erasure of time by space is rampant, as we worry about the commute home. If the worker cannot home, how will he reproduce himself for the next works day?

2. In general, the older people get the lest trust worthy they get. As, I struggle with one alot, because I feel more fluid with knowledge as I age, I specifically talk about being co-opted by dominant or hegemonic forces. These forces, go ahead shit on me for being abstract, but ideology and general weighs you down after a while. Like at the radical left movement that development during the depression, and how they turned into the conformism of the 50s, and hippies who became professionals or just poor. As the zeitgeist of your generation is rationalized and basically figured out, your identity is used against you and co opted into this particular ideology. It gets to a point that you must change, to keep out of the grasp on capital, which is very difficult. Admittedly, I must elaborate on this one.

3. Never own a home. As I may read this in a future life, and get depressed, I would recommend subtracting yourself from reproducing this aspect of private property, i.e. the spatial reproduction of the social relations that encapsulate capitalism. Why? Whats the difference between renting? Your flexibility is punished, as your identity is reified as home owner. When put in this situation, it is logical to preserve the value of your home. This may mean making unethical choices, such as exploiting Mexican laborers, super intendenants, and other service workers, to maintain your property. Don't forget about the exclusionary functions that are implicit in this institution. How can I blame you if you don't want certain people if your neighborhood. You have no choice! You must protect your investment. If you don't care about it you would have not bought in the first place. Ok so you don't care about these actions, or you don't think that the money you pay in property taxes, or the way you keep your community doesn't affect anyone else... guess what, you probably don't own home. Unless you have reached your mid fifties or later. Down payment on houses, interest rates, and the number of years of a mortgage do vary geographically, by market etc, but the trend since world war 2 has been for low down payments and long term debt financing. This is a good thing right? More people can own homes, well yes in theory, but the only thing guaranteed over the long term (30 years is a long time) is that more people can be fed to the jaws of financial capitalism. For example, in the last 30 years, we may take a look at the people of color who actually have gone on to own the homes they have taken mortgages out. While i do not have this empirical data at hand, and we are assuming certain things when we drop persons of color as a category or identity, i could tell you the sauces rates aren't that great. For example, who do you think was most affecting by the latest mortgage crash. It is important that we don't see this as just cats like Mui trying to get rich off someone elses plights, it is built into the housing industry, the credit system, and financial capitalism as a whole. Also, as you are in the quest to make these mortgage payments, which probably now adays involves your partner working the same amount of hours, you must produce surplus value! What does this mean? You probably won't leave your job because your unemployment check won't pay your mortgage. Also, if you don't live in the right neighborhood (read black), you wont be able to refinance your loan, or only at a very costly price. I'm talkn white slavery, and this ain't some funny necro shit, but you working fifty hours for the rest of your life, rarely getting any fulfillment.

4. to be continued...