Idiotic El Paso Texas

a golf course in the desert?

do you really need that?

I suppose it's for the generals fresh back from killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan?

a golf course in Scotland or England, that makes sense.

But in a desert?

irresponsible.

stupidity

El PasoTexas is NOT friendly...

I'm sorry, but today it happened just one time too many.

I have been stared at by bus drivers--who are usually friendly.

I have been stared at by people in cafes.

But it happened today again, twice.... in two different locations and that's too many.

A rude, direct, uninhibited stare, starting at my feet and moving up.

An aggressive, uncivilized stare, as if I were not a person.

My clothes are none of your business. If you don't like them, you can keep

your opinions to yourself....

And the clothes I'm wearing are exactly what I wore in Vienna, Austria,

and not much different from what I wore in Bratislava..

But I have never seen such rudeness and such primitive stares as I"m getting

in El Paso Texas.

What a village.

meanderings...

as I think of my friends in Wien I would not want them to think

badly of me.... my unhappiness in Wien had more to do with my

wage slavery than anything my friends had said or done...

as I think of the gleaming metal and glass boxes on Mesa street in El Paso Texas,

the boxes moving swiftly, boxes which don't like to stop for pedestrians...

I ask myself: how can human beings accept this ugliness? such miserable

living conditions?

Do they really not see this nasty, inhuman environment for what it is?

Yes, I prefer a crowded U-bahn to waiting for the bus in the merciless sunshine,

watching the shining cars speed past.

You don't really see people in El Paso Texas. You see cars.

Unless you enter a shop, or a crowded bus....

And the streets are so wide--not on a human scale---that when you cross them,

and you hear the mechanical voice counting down ..... it adds insult to injury...

the insanity of the usa, el paso style

This is an insane country.

Nothing here is convenient.

Everything is far away.

I despise the air conditioning even more than the merciless sun.

Today I stood on Mesa Street waiting for a bus, smelling gasoline from the

nearby pumps.

to cross the street I had to listen to the obnoxious voice of a machine counting down the

time left for a pedestrian to cross....Nine....Eight....Seven...

How horrible!

How can people live like this? With no concern for anyone except themselves?

Buy cars. Buy new phones. Buy computers.

And just across the valley, on the other side of the ocean of traffic, lies Mexico.

Can you just ignore the poverty? Someone is born on the wrong side of the

border, and, so they will have half a life?

Just because of that arbitrary border?

How can someone look everyday at Mexico and not feel outrage or disgust?

Do they just think: I'm here. I'm okay. the hell with them?

And they all drive enormous trucks! Shiny enormous cars. Such arrogance.

I hate this city.

So ugly.

The noise of traffic is ugly.

the presumption of the numerous cars is maddening.

It is ugly, mindless, heartless......

not culture, but anti-culture

not a society in the true sense, but a wholly un- and anti-social way of being.

global warming? Let's just ignore it....

Chile's 9/11

Memories of what happened when the democratically elected government of Chile

was overthrown in a military coup supported by the United States...

http://www.zmag.org/zvideo/3237

From a film by John Pilger, link at "Z Net"

Horrible, Unpleasant El Paso, Texas

I would like to pop round to the local store to buy fresh fruit!

Think again! That's impossible in El Paso Texas.

To buy fruit I'd have to take one bus, and then transfer to another...

repeating the process to return home.

The entire process would take at least 1.5, maybe two hours.

Contrast that with Vienna or Bratislava.

In Bratislava there were five places I could buy fresh fruit or vegetables

after a five or ten minute walk..

In Vienna, there were five or six grocery stores in easy walking distance--

not more than ten minutes away, some closer...

Perhaps this may have something to do with the number of grotesquely

obese young people I see walking around.... like beached whales waddling...

El Paso Texas not a nice place to be

due to the wholly inadequate public transport,

minor activities,

routine tasks,

become a pain in the ass,

inconvenient and excessively time-consuming:

e.g. going to the library, returning borrowed books:

requires at minimum one hour of time

as opposed to:

a quick 10 minute trip there and a ten minute trip back,

which would be possible if El Paso had street cars

buying printer paper or printer ink at Wal Mart

requires a transfer--so requires a minimum of 45 minutes

one way--90 minutes for a round-trip

There's no place within easy walking distance where I could buy

grocereries or printer ink, or paper for my printer....

Not convenient

Not nice

Not pleasant

gmail

I've just read that

"Gmail is built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful."

"And maybe even fun."

Fun?

Fun????

email is a g.d. pain in the ass

it will never replace face-to-face contact

ha ha ha

what universe do these people live in?

yeah, right, if I had a wad of money in the bank,

and all the time in the world,

maybe,

just maybe lots of things would be fun.

But not in the real world

It's a pathetic, condescending joke to say email or any gmail or xmail

or y mail or you-name-it mail is fun.

an insult to the English language.

fun?

my god. it's amazing how people start to believe their own propaganda...

Or maybe these people don't believe what they've written

either way it's bullshit.

Oh, and by the way, anyone interested could learn that the psychologist

Dacher Keltner generally doubts whether electronic contacts could

or should replace face-to-face.....