So this troubled guy, freak to be more precise.... Uncomfortable in his own skin, out of touch with the world and for that matter anything human, dies. You would think a great statesman or a visionary passed away. Mass hysteria fed by media's fawning over this perfectly forgettable pop "star" followed. Yet if history tells us anything is that 50 years from now no one under 40 will know who he was. Some star.
Amazing gift. When you come across that kind of a talent you feel that it is "given" to a person. Makes you want to believe in something greater.
To
look at horrors of mankind
And
point to common ugly flaw
Extremism
there we always find
From
times of murdering crusaders
To modern day Islamist lot
Extreme
beliefs, extreme religions
Have
killed and raped for mighty God
How
righteous and smug they feel
As
Hitler showed us oh so clearly
He
loved his own, killed all the rest
Loved
Wagner, mankind paid so dearly
Through
time and weary observation
I
loathe the crowds, avoid religions
I
neither wave nor burn the flags
And
fight one thing - extreme decisions
It's been a while since I added to my unblog. But that's the freedom of not having a blog. You don't have to share if you don't feel like it.
Lately I have been hearing the term "living socially" a lot. Basically it gets back to the blogging phenomenon. When I maintained this web site a lot in the 90's, I used to write about where I am and sometimes post pictures of my surroundings. It was a way to inform my family and friends who frequently lost track of me and always greeted me with "How was your flight?". Call me a pioneer of blogging, but at the time I had no idea that i was engaged in such activity.
Then blogging really took off. First as a way for select well informed people to comment on the subject they were well informed on. Then, the great unwashed masses followed. Since most of them were not experts on anything and were not particularly well informed all the way around, their blogging resembled that of a diary made public. It used to be that a diary was kept under lock and key so that strangers would not be informed of your half baked ideas, fears, and personal information. Blogging turned that concept upside down. Share everything with the world. As if the world is supposed to CARE.
Facebook picked up on the phenomenon and created an orgy of non stop blogging. No longer was it one person "sharing" with the world. Now it was many people sharing their ideas, activities, thoughts, and fears with the COMMUNITY. And "living socially" was born. People became addicted and removed themselves from large stretches of their REAL life to participate in sharing information for what remains of their real lives with virtual friends.
Things got kicked into the next (and what appears to be the frothy stage with the arrival of Tweeter. Its an abbreviated version of blogging which takes blogging on the road and shortens the message to less than 140 characters. Now you can let your friends know of your indigestion or other bodily functions while you are on the move. How exciting. Now EVERYONE gets to hear your half baked incomplete sentences. And all to what end? How does it enrich our lives? Ummmmm....well....that appears to be less certain.
I am, however, fairly certain that 10 years from now we will look back and blogging, facebooking, and tweetering will seem seem as passe as 70's leisure suits. No one will admit to having ever used it, everyone will claim that they opposed it. Very similar to the fabled french resistance of world war II.
For now, living socially is all the rage. No more secrets, nothing private, not even dirty laundry to air. Regular information paradise which in my book falls under TMI (Too Much Infromation).
Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable.
The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.
— Karl Marx, 1867
Iran's government spokesman is quoted as saying Saturday, Jan. 31 that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Khomeini's overthrow of the shah that Iran's Islamic revolution was not limited to its borders. His response to the US president Barack Obama's overtures was a demand that America apologize for 60 years of "crimes against Iran" and its new president carry out a "deep and fundamental change." Let's start apologizing to Iran.
I just turned on the TV to a spectacle of pre-innaguration festivities. Tom Hanks was speaking to the throngs at the Lincoln memorial. Even now, jaded by all that has come to be, I was taken aback. So, on the eve of supposedly historical innaguration the nation is being spoken to, lead, shown the way by..... actors? Whatever happened to philosophers, scientists, visionaries, leader ? Do we have any left? Is the best we can do is to trot out people whose achievements are mostly defined by a careeer of playing REAL heroes and leaders and visionaries? Am I the only one who finds this delciiously absurd?
So they spend $150 million of REAL people's money to stage a made-for-TV variety show studded by the likes of Tom Hanks, Queen Latiffa, and Jon Bon Jovi? Are you kidding me? Have we all lost our collective common sense? Will we not look back at this 3 ring cricus years from now with a sense of embarssement and wonderment: Just what the hell were we all thinking?
Yes it is today and I THINK I am 48. But here is the weird news of the day. My cousin Eugene happens to livge in China. Thi smorning I got a Skype message from him wishing me a happy birthday and informing me that his daughter ws born TODAY. Katya Vizitei. Born on January 16, 2009. So, there are now 2 Viziteis in the world with the SAME birthdate. How strange is that?
