Obama And Singh, Hating the Holidays, Group Sex
President Obama is having a dinner party with the Prime Minister of India. This it Obama’s first state dinner and some people have been concerned that India has been feeling left out since the USA has been giving so much attention to Pakistan.
We must remember that this is the first year anniversary of the attack on Mumbai.
This is from the BBC
“Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Washington for talks that many people see will shape foreign policy in the coming years.”
The rest of the article is about the Indian textile industry. It is a traditional source of wealth for India. Indian cottons have been trade goods for centuries.
Today on NPR Mrs. Obama, the first lady mentioned that President Obama kept a picture of Mahatma Gandhi in his office. This was because he respected the influence of Gandhi in bringing about change and freedom to his people while preaching a message of peace.
It is because of that comment that I decided today that I myself must try to bring peace in my own life and attempt as much as possible to bring freedom to people in whatever way I can. I am not being pollyannish here. After years of believing in violent revolution, I have limited my belief in violence to self defence and even then only if the lives you are defending are those who are in your charge. In other words I don’t believe in violence merely to protect my own skin. Other than that the only time violence is justified is when the people grab a traducer and violator of the liberties and lives of the people and uses the power of the state or of their influence over the community to aggrandize wealth and power to themselves. That sort of person when taken by the outraged people may forfeit their life due to the rage of the people. Other than that, I am pretty much against violence.
Tonight on MSNBC Howard Dean is sitting in for Rachel Maddow. Senator Bernie Sanders says that he is not sure if this health care legislation is going to be worth voting for if the bill that passes is stripped of the public option or is so expensive that it becomes simply a giveaway to the Health Insurance industry.
Not much to say tonight. I am in a state of semi suspended animation and entering the season I hate the most, the holidays. I have never enjoyed these periods of enforced artificial giving. I give to people when I feel like it and really resent these artifacts of a culture that I don’t identify with. But I have learned to keep my mouth shut in public and not be as overtly critical as I used to be as a youth. Now I just tend to sleep through them or latch onto a temporary family to pretend to feel like I am vested into a commercial event that produces more alienation and suicidal feelings of failure than anything else.
I would much rather watch a special on the history of the planet on one of the semi-scientific channels on TV and detach from my own personal human condition at these times. I know that it is the ultimate symptom of alienated individuation but what can you do? Join a revolutionary sex cult and have an orgy? Well it is not a bad idea, but I have never been a good orgy participant. I ejaculate too fast or become nervous around unfamiliar naked bodies and lose my erection. Sex for me is something best done when I feel safe and secure, with one or two partners at a time in a cave I am familiar with preferably with some pot, Viagra and a partner or two that turn me on and can hold a conversation.
Or if not that then I would rather be reading a well written history of some period that I am not as familiar with as I should be. I am studying the history of the Chinese border regions and their relations with the nomadic peoples of the north in particular. It is quite fascinating. And that is what I am going to do now. Goodnight.
Tags: Group Sex, I hate the Holidays, Obama and Singh, Suicidal Feelings and A Good Book.