I am afraid I will be away longer than originally deduced. Something about plastic containers, pigs in Africa, UN busybodies and environmental causes. Al Gore has ruined plastic usage and summer vacations for everyone. Even the Africans. On the surface though, this sounds like a great premise for an action packed George Clooney movie, I reckon.
Anyway, I was at the receiving end of an inflammtory rhubarb. Being accused of philosophical bigotry (?) and what not. Now, I am fairly comfortable with alleged fascism etcetra. However, to be accused of being a disciple of Hegel; that’s beyond insulting. I think the world has gotten decidedly barbaric since Anna Nicole Smith’s passing. What a moral decline we have suffered in the days gone by!
Sometimes, while provoking armchair activists into a verbosity stricken implosion of sorts, I ponder whether a particular social/political situation causes them to foam at the mouth with unbridled rage or is it that they were quite “wrath-laden” to begin with and are now just looking to work their way backwards, as far as the whole of pinning of their anger onto something more tangible is concerned. It is, as though, they are now in need of a reason, any would suffice, to focus all their radarless antagonism at. To expect any working rationale in such discussions is a bit like smuggling African diamonds in a goat’s neck, past a border patrolled by a gun-totting, trigger happy shifta army comprised entirely of adolescents high on hormones and narcotics. It’s ardurous, disgusting and will, in all probability, end with necks getting slit. The goat’s and yours’. However, if you manage to pull through, no other achievment will ever measure up.
So, on a whole other level, its bloody marvelous, if you go to see.
Also pretty amazing - the reduction process by which the larger world has now folded itself into one tiny digital village of sorts. This metamorphosis has essentially handed every perrennial idiot on the street, the illusion of a birth-right, previously unknown; to freely dissect and denigrate other peoples in other cultures by thinly veiling it as “impassioned activism”. People who have never stepped a toe inside the Gaza strip are screeching about IDF’s reputation as ruthless war-mongers, Hamas ultras and their modus operandi etcetra. You will often walk into a supposed, smart people soiree and find clusters of 4-5 omletteheads discussing, hands flying and inflections all over the place, the threats posed by Afghan war-lords in Pashtun areas and you’d be all like – “Have you ever been to the Frontier provinces in Af-Pak?”. And they’d be like, “Hell, no!”. Well, I didn’t think so either. And then they get all offended and shit because you refuse to violently express your opinion about the Darfur émigré crisis in Netherlands or some such.
Unfortunately, most of the lot is not even remotely given to persuasive polemics, instead, they are just a bunch of prickly critters who leave me with a brackish aftertaste. Much like summer sweat. And then I have to drink a gallon of soda to subdue the effect. Hardly good for anyone’s digestion, I think.
