isms...

Today we will discuss why all isms are bad. Every time people cling to an ism, they worship it. Society needs to have more room to develop and evolve (the kind of evolution that even religious people believe in). Once a people start believing in an ism there is no more room to operate, there is no more room for improvement.

I am here to argue that there are NO good isms, not even the good ones.

I could take easy street and throw out obvious bad isms like Extremism, Fascism, Racism, Sexism, Nazism, but I will take the high road and introduce the bad side to a not-so-bad isms.

One example is Capitalism. While we can all agree that Socialism and Communism have failed, we should not celebrate that by clinging on to Capitalism. We saw the ugly side of Capitalism during this year's great depression (which people still labeled as a recession). Every issue we had during the economic downturn could be directly blamed on Capitalism, wall-street greed. Sure it didn't help that we waged two major wars at the time, but that would paint the ugly side of the next ism, Nationalism.

Without Nationalism and the sudden euphoria of Patriotism that fell upon every American after 9/11, Bush would not have dared to bypass congress and line up wars like his College cocaine habit. But we as people fell into the trap again and dazed into the beautiful idea of Nationalism and Patriotism and gave away all of our freedoms in return.

So the next time a great idea comes, please do not make it into an ism, because one day you might want to sit down and improve it.