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Is that self-indulgence?
It certainly is. These people should stop whining and adapt.
(Oh yeah, and I do have a gasmask, an, erm, 'recreational' one. I've never really considered carrying it around, though: I suspect that if I ever actually put the thing on, gas attack or no, those around would lynch me for my smugness.)
Actually I have made my own gas mask with a small PringleTM tin and some odour eaters. Full instructions can be found here.
Incidentally, are you quite alright, Bill? This realer-than-thou rantiness seems rather unlike you...
Thanks doctor, I'm fine, just not smoking or boozing and on the wrong end of a nasty deadline, so it's mainly sleep and nicotine dep. (It is also though a relflection of the fact that I have been on the left long enough to get bitterly disillusioned with it. Just a few years ago I thought peacefully attending demos - and risking getting beaten up or fitted up - would get the world somewhere. Now it's seeming worse than ever. Moreover, most of my time as a leftie has been spent dealing with the displaced anger of certain other lefties. Okay, my fault for being naive, but it still pisses me off.)
I think accusing the Guy on the Street of hegemony is ... what? Paradoxical. It's not the Guy's fault any more than 9/11 was the fault of the Fella in Baghdad... or Kabul or wherever.
I am not part of the solution, Colonel, and therefore I am part of the problem. It's that simple.
Dead Flyboy sez: You seem to be implying that the average str8 white middle-class male citizen of the USA is more privileged again than their equivalent in, say, the UK. Evidence?
I meant they are more hated - that wasn't meant to pertain to a real (as opposed to symbolic) privilage differential betwixt, say, me, a white het male posho, and a Harvard frat boy. (Hmm... not sure how one would measure privilage anyway.)
BIP: Bill, just one qu. are people not allowed to be scared of dying and to talk about those feelings openly? That smacks of 'stiff upper lip' bollocks to me. And is this fear of dying/openness about it exclusive to being able to recognise a level of privelige?
I never said anyone had no right to freedom of expression, merely that in the greater cosmic scheme of things, this thread is twisted and wrong. And I think we all know it, rilly.
And you do sound somewhat in need of cuddles. So i'm sending some. whether you want 'em or not.
:-) Thank you, but while I receive them I will be thinking of all the lil' Ayrab children who can't huggle each other because their arms have been blown off.
Oh, one more thing, Fly sez:
2) Only (ex-)members of Public Enemy or NWA are allowed to spell America 'Amerikkka' and not look stupid.
Point taken, henceforth it'll be Land of the Freaks, Home of the Slaves. :P |
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