Saturday, August 21, 2010

Oh Why? Oh Why?

Oh, Why Oh Why Dost Thou Hate El Paso so?

Start with food: bad food.
No fresh bread.
Oh, I know you buy so-called "artisan" bread, but excuse me that's bullshit.
That is an overused and abused word in this country where food is not fresh.
Yes, bread baked yesterday, and then frozen, then microwaved before it was put on the shelves. --That's what I was told by one of the person who works at the store where it's sold....

Fruit and vegetables not fresh

tastier tomatoes and onions are available in Slovakia, sometimes called an "eastern" european country....

What else? Isn't that enough?

And then there is the public transport. Non-existent after 8pm. Bad---slow and upleasant when it does exist. better again in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. And we shouldn't even begin to compare it to Vienna.

People? They have a decidedly narrow outlook.

Irresponsible climate criminality.

Militarism? Yes, it is taken for granted, not questioned. And wars are mythologized. People don't know or don't care that in the so-called good war (World War Two) the Allies deliberately targeted the civilian population. It wasn't a question of missing the target. They were deliberately aiming to kill as many civilians as possible. (You didn't know that? See Grayling's book Among the Dead Cities
There's a review in the Guardian here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/mar/04/highereducation.news

And here's a link to Grayling's homepage, which includes a link to a video where he is discussing the book:

http://acgrayling.com/articles


And little has changed today....This country is number one in killing. Nothing to be proud of.

Attitudes about work? We don't complain. We cope. In other words, denial about the fundamental injustice of the society....

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