I have to tell you something...
(more later, and no, I'm not speaking to myself)
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I was 12 going on 13, no, wait, that won't do... Moneypenny. Miss Moneypenny. Eh, that doesn't work either. Um. How 'bout you just read my blog? That is, if you're feeling lucky. Well, do ya punk!?!
A fisher's boat chased the water into the coveted hills,I was also reminded of a song:
Both banks were covered in peach blossom at the ancient river crossing.
He knew not how far he sailed, gazing at the reddened trees,
He travelled to the end of the blue stream, seeing no man on the way.
Then finding a crack in the hillside, he squeezed through the deepest of caves,
And beyond the mountain a vista opened of flat land all about!
In the distance he saw clouds and trees gathered together,
Nearby amongst a thousand homes flowers and bamboo were scattered.
A wood-gatherer was the first to speak a Han-era name,
The inhabitants' dress was unchanged since the time of Qin.
The people lived together on uplands above Wu Ling river,
Apart from the outside world they laid their fields and plantations.
Below the pines and the bright moon, all was quiet in the houses,
When the sun started to shine through the clouds, the chickens and dogs gave voice.
Startled to find a stranger amongst them, the people jostled around,
They competed to invite him in and ask about his home.
As brightness came, the lanes had all been swept of blossom,
By dusk, along the water the fishers and woodsmen returned.
To escape the troubled world they had first left men's society,
They live as if become immortals, no reason now to return.
In that valley they knew nothing of the way we live outside,
From within our world we gaze afar at empty clouds and hills.
Who would not doubt that magic place so hard to find,
The fisher's worldly heart could not stop thinking of his home.
He left that land, but its hills and rivers never left his heart,
Eventually he again set out, and planned to journey back.
By memory, he passed along the way he'd taken before,
Who could know the hills and gullies had now completely changed?
Now he faced only the great mountain where he remembered the entrance,
Each time he followed the clear stream, he found only cloud and forest.
Spring comes, and all again is peach blossom and water,
No-one knows how to reach that immortal place.
Oh, and let us not forget the Kids in the Hall in "Brain Candy."Movin' to the country,
gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat me a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
gonna eat a lot of peachesPeaches come from a can,
they were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way,
I'd eat peaches every day
Sun-soakin' bulges in the shadeTake a little naps where the roots all twist
Squished a rotten peach in my fist
And dreamed about you, woman,
I poked my finger down inside
Make a little room for it to hide
Nature's candy in my hand or can or a pieMillions of peaches, peaches for me
Millions of peaches, peaches for freeLook out!
The red will never want to come together with the blue because then the country would be purple, thus, gay.
I can't close my eyes and make it go away. There's many lost, but tell me who has won. The trench is dug within our hearts. And mothers, children, brothers, sisters—torn apart. Wipe the tears from your eyes. Wipe your tears away. Oh, wipe your tears away. The real battle just begun.I felt scared. I cried. I almost vomited. Then I became angry.
How any damn fool could vote for the stupidest goddamn US President since WW2 is beyond me. He's fucked our economy, he's fucking our environment, he's doing nothing to catch terrorist number 1 ("not a priority') and lots to create an entire generation of America haters, he wants to interfere in yours and your neighbours lives, he's no kind of conservative, the defence budget is out of control, there's stinky corruption throughout the land, his tax cuts went overwhelmingly to the rich. But he's 'strong', he's 'resolute', he 'doesn't waver'. That's 'cause he's an UTTER MORON! And frankly, if you swallowed it, well, I'm speechless.
The US economy will soon go down the shitter, due to record deficits, the price of oil and irresponsible tax cuts. This will have a very serious knock-on effect around the world. I suspect the sharemarket will do alright for a while, those interests will be immune to the early warning signals and will be buffered by the tax cuts for the rich.
The US will continue to deny science and reason and refuse any sort of reform towards reducing greenhouse emissions. This will ensure that India and China (and Australia) do little or nothing either. Global climate change will hurt the poorest people the most - hope you like brown-skinned immigrants, there are plenty more about to arrive.Everything *can* be recovered from. Maybe I've taken the step from anger to delusion. But I have to hang on to that. It is time for me (and I suspect others) to re-evaluate my life. Where I'm going, what I'm doing, what is important to me, what contributions I've been making to society & what I've been getting back.
Unilateralism will rule in international relations. While the US can afford to maintain its standing army and technological gap (which will be a long time) they and their deputies will operate as they like. This will foster fear and resentment, promoting asynchronous warfare (aka terrorism) together with conventional arming up and delay much needed reform in many countries.
The increasing influence of the religious right in US politics will spur on movements both for and against this way of thinking around the world. The clash of civilisations, reason against faith, and faith against faith, will grow between Europe and the US, within the US and Australia, between Israel and Palestine, within Indonesia, etc.
I think the re-eelction of Bush has proved that he wasn't an aberration, he's the chosen path for a majority of the world's most powerful and dangerous civilisation, and this marks a sharp downturn in the progress of the humanist ideal. Everything can be recovered from, there are always steps forward, but it seems that the world just took a serious lurch towards an ugly, brutal, impoverished, conflicted world.