Indiana’s economy has kept the same pace as its approach to social issues. We lag in the 1930s. In “Player Piano,” Kurt Vonnegut painted a stark future: Factory jobs are rare, machines have replaced people as technology has advanced. Today Indiana approaches that future. 1/4

Yet a lot of people cling to the past. In this context enabling billionaires to concentrate wealth in fewer hands is obscene. Their PR machine indoctrinates as early as it can (kindergarten) and has mass media at its disposal. God, they’ll say, meant for them to be rich. 2/4

If we are going to survive as a species we have to change how we view societal wealth, the role of education, and how people can function in an economy where fewer jobs exist. We also have to realize this all might be moot if the Earth dies because we made it filthy. 3/4

Indiana has to change in a lot of ways. I’m Mark Small: pro-choice, pro environment, pro-science, pro-separation of church & State, anti-gun & GOP candidate for Indiana House District 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 4/4