(ACHTUNG! Skip the first paragraph, which is petty personal shit, and read everything that follows it.)
MotherFUCK, where are those notes I made months ago on the pseudo-real handful of obscure '70s albums and the people that wrote them and the nutjobs that spent their lives listening to them? I reckon I'm gonna have to tear the house apart to find the notes, or accept the fact that I probably tossed 'em when I moved down the street last August. Shit, there goes the framework for my next novel.
In other news: nothing... aside from the admission from our shithead president that he's willing to go nuclear on Iran ("All options are on the table") because said state is trying to do what the US and half a dozen or so other states have done over the past sixty-odd years. I'm not defending Iran's right to manufacture nuclear material (because, let's face it, their claims of wanting to use that material for energy alone are full of shit), but there is something seriously fucked about threatening to nuke someone for wanting to play "catch-up." I use quotation marks because while Iran may feel that having a nuclear weapon in their hands merely levels the playing field- at least in regard to other lesser nuclear powers, like their enemy Israel- it's really just giving the hardliners that run Iran the opportunity to fuck up some infidel shit big time.
Of course, it if does come down to American nuclear codes being unlocked and released to the appropriate military personnel, the next step, once the, ahem, "tactical"-sized mushroom clouds have dispersed, will probably be all-out conventional warfare with Iran. BRILLIANT. FUCKING BRILLIANT. Let's get several thousand more Marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors killed because our goddamned wannabe messiah of a president wants to maintain his religio-historial delusions and the hegemony of Western capitalism. And military casualties are on the tiny tip of a geopolitical, economic, and most importantly, moral/ethical iceberg.
Shit, I feel sick with rage. Let's hope that the Chinese- the fucking Chinese, of all people, and I don't add the epithet out of any problem with the people or the culture, but their government (N.B. There goes my chance of teaching in China in a couple years.)- manage to pull off the diplomacy that George W. "I like Jesus better than Jim Beam" Bush claims he's using to dissuade Iran from going any further with their nuclear plans. If Hu Jintao and Co. do the job, that'll be one hell of an international diplomatic coup for China. Fuck it, though- better China get some brownie points than people die.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION (circle the correct answer): how did the US manage to avoid a throwdown with Iran when Ronald "senile as fuck" Reagan was in office, only to step into the same pile of shit twenty years later?
a) It was mutually beneficial for Reagan and Khomeini to talk shit so they would both look like badasses to the sheep they ruled, thereby keeping them in line
b) Reagan was occupied by the threat of the Soviet Union, and Khomeini by maintaining/building power at home, and any little spats between the US and Iran were just newspaper fodder
c) George W. Bush thinks he's got a direct line to God, and somehow, despite being drunk most of the time, remembers what went down during the '80s and wants to one-up his old man's former boss, because, hey, there's a war on terror or some such shit, and God's on my side, not the ragheads'
d) Capitalism allows for, and probably creates, such scenarios so the motherfuckers at the top of the global heap can profit handsomely while the rest of us worry about things like morality and humanity right before being blown to pieces
e) all of the above
With that, I'm outta here for now. We're all gonna be living out a heavy metal lyrical cliche before we know it unless we do something drastic, but right now I need some sleep.
Fuck capitalism. Fuck war. Fuck religion. Fuck nationalism. Fuck coercion. Fuck putting anything before the well-being of regular human beings. Fuck all of us for mouthing such platitudes.
We have manufactured, consumed, regurgitated, and once more consumed our own hell, whether or not this whole Iran thing goes down. Our world, which is inherently beautiful and wonderful and full of amazing people, is fucked.
FUCKED.
You are now free to indulge in the relatively minor personal problem addressed in the first paragraph.
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