The Crow's Eye: Obliged

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Mar 18, 2011

Obliged

Those of us lucky enough to have our births recorded within the borders of the US, France, Germany, Britain and the various bourse capitols of the Western world have an obligation, I think.

A compelling one.

In the same way that Obama can declare that "these terms are not negotiable...and will be enforced," we ought to do the same.

We ought to make our various homelands fucking ungovernable. And then declare all of our terms and demands non-negotiable. All. Of. The.

We are obliged to do so. People are dying in our names. And, listening to Barack fucking Pendragon Obama, right now, the Western powers have decided to cozy up to their Arab League despot clients, and kill thousands more.

6 comments:

Unknown said...: Obama is a sadistic bastard. I love the selective humanitarin aspect of all this. Oils well that ends well I always say.; March 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Jack Crow said...: You watch that speech, Rob?; March 18, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Unknown said...: Hi Jack, no I didn't. I can't watch Obama, I can barely stand to read his speeches which I do with one eye so I don't go cross-eyed and get stuck there.; March 18, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Unknown said...: I did see the part you quoted in an article, that was sickening enough. Arrogant, completely.; March 18, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Jack Crow said...: Objectively, he's good at what he does. Pursed lips, hand gestures. Somber tones.

Resolve sewn into his annunciation.

A right bastard.; March 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM
Unknown said...: Oh, he's good in his way, Obama is the Smooth One. It's only when you forget the delivery and look at the content or lack of it...

I like that, "A right bastard"

You have nice a way with words.; March 18, 2011 at 11:42 PM

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This one took a while to put into words.

I don't kid myself that I've stumbled upon a unique insight and I have little doubt that someone has already written or said this better than I. Five minutes after I hit the "publish" button, I'll probably regret the choice of words more than I already do now - because it's difficult to get my head outside of English language usage, to comment on a problem with that usage, whilst using the English language to do so.

In the interest of not making more of an ass of myself than necessary, I've pared a very long thesis down to a paragraph:

I find it troubling that, using English, I have very limited choice in expressing how I relate to people with whom I have ongoing interaction. If I want to reference the nature of my relations with the woman who has challenged me to grow in ways I never imagined possible, the woman who howled with a primal, gorgeous, earth shattering, mother bear of a refrain, transcending pain and pleasure in act of creation to which I will never be immediate party, who has with her defiant and proud womanhood still intact forged a family out of disparate parts - I have to write "my wife." I have to reduce her to property. That really pisses me off. I don't own her. I don't fucking want the title or the claim. I don't want to express possession, simply to refer to her (without writing a discursive dissertation). I don't like one bit that the short hand for "association" in English is expressed in the possessive. I don't own my wife or my children. They're not mine.

So, fuck you Latin and Germanic branches of the Indo-European language group.

That is all.