Brownian Movement

You may rightfully ask me what the physics term Brownian movement has to do with politics. Perhaps after I define the term you may get an inkling about what I am trying to explain. Brownian movement is defined as follows: Brownian motion (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown) or pedesis is the seemingly random movement of particles suspended in a fluid (i.e. a liquid such as water or air) or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, often called a particle theory. (Wikipedia) These motions have been characterized to situations similar to dust particles in the air and even in more elaborate theories to the movements in the stock market.

My simple proposal is to say that the much of the activity of government bodies and their subsequent actions are random in nature and serve no useful purpose other than to perpetuate their own movement.

Let me look at all levels of government in our country from local, state and federal to clarify my point.

My lovely home city of Los Angeles has a City council composed of 15 elected members and a mayor who represent the legislative and executive arms of the city government. As most other cities leaders who did not have the vision to foresee or plan for economic hardships, this group when faced with a 400 million dollar shortfall addressed the looming catastrophe by passing ordinances that forbade smoking on the cities beaches, smoking near restaurants and a boycott against the state of Arizona. These guys and gal considered that these actions of moving paper and passing unneeded laws would have some magical effect on the budget crisis. This group did not have the courage to address the systemic problems that had arisen from their predecessors Brownian activity.

The Brownian senseless movement is even heightened more at the state level. California, which has a budget shortfall of 20 billion give or take a few billion, approached this peril by passing laws that forbade the future use of regular light bulbs , AB 7 which would regulate highschool baseball, AB 569 that regulates use of reservoirs for recreational purposes and of course AB 569 which would ensure that workers would get their lunch break. All these of course are legislative movements without purpose. As with the city, these Sacramento particulates were not able to get to managing costs, expenses or pension liabilities in an effective manner

At the federal level, as Korea threatens, as the national debt skyrockets and oil spills out onto our beaches the federal government is easily passing laws like HR 45 firearm licensing, HR 1475 Federal Prison Work Reform ACT and of course the important HR 4247 regarding use of restraints in schools. I do not question the significance or importance of these laws, however I do not see how they address the problems that presently beset our country. It is unfortunate that legislators who have a good idea try to get a law passed. From my perspective, I believe that not all good ideas have to be enacted. But in keeping with the Brownian Movement theory our particle legislators flit about without a real purpose aside from movement and appear as if they are accomplishing for the good and welfare of society by writing up these legislative dust particulates.

And what about our leaders who are supposed to be "managing". Previously I had blogged regarding the Nero-like behavior of our leadership team. I guess putting boots on necks, raising money for Boxer in California and not able to speak the term "radical Muslim" will stop Iran, North Korea, Illegal Immigration, "man made catastrophes" and bring down the national debt.

I suppose, if Robert Brown were still with us, he would have no problem likening the movement of our executives and legislators to those particles and seeds floating in the void, only those seeds which he studied may land and produce a flower or useful vegetation. Our seedlings legislators for the most part seem to produce weed like products which at first may appear to be pretty or helpful but in the long run lead to a blight that may never be stopped and overrun what has to be done.