Lost in Paradise

Boosting morale

J.C. RAmo is a morale booster too, but so sexiste in the way he expresses himself that one has to question his reasoning.  An example:

“Revolutionary ideas threaten everything most great men prize. how they think, where they make their fortunes, their sense of identity, often their very lives.”

What about great women, J.C? What about just ordinary women? Do you even know how they think? What they prize? How they develop their identity? Bet you don’t…

Here’s a tip: In modern history, revelutionary ideas have tended to liberate us!

However his sense of the transitory nature of (male) institutions and ways of thought is interesting.

Meditation

The nice thing about paradise is that one has oodles of time to meditate - and read.

But even here I hear the noise of male violence and clannish bickering.   Maybe civilization is evolving in the right direction after all because the ones making the most noise are over 50 and probably don’t have to be reckoned with.

Their sons are surely more reasonable beings, having been raised by single mothers in a tolerant, diverse, more open society.

Zogby says so. Just reading Zogby is a terrific morale booster! However, can we really put our faith in predictions based upon polling?

No escape…

even on TV.  The only women portrayed on American TV screens are either whores or useless airheads with hormone overload. The others (most news anchors,talk and game show hostesses) are barbie dolls. A few have opted for a masculine look and the masculine life.

So much struggle, so much suffering on the part of millions of women for the past 40 years…for this?

Where am I?

In paradise…

lostinparadise

Castaway…

self-exiled, actually.  And against all reason, still submerged under a giant masculine wave of bad news, bad vibes, bad thoughts circulating around the globe.  Subjected daily to the blabber of living white (black, red and yellow) and green - $ - men.  The new ones are worse than the ones who dominated the screens and air waves of my old universe.  Is there no escape (besides death)?

Life is surely easier for all of the non-conflicted, hormone-driven women of the developing world: the sex-slaves, the Afghan women that America’s puppet government has sent back into slavery and confinement. the mutilated Africains and the violated, throw-away Congolese and Sudanese, the little Chinese girls sent to work in factories or sold…the list is too long…but it’s always easier to rebel against “visible” abuse, isn’t it?

For all the above female members of the species, life may be easier simply because it consists only of one imperative: “Do or die!”

For the rest of us, once the hormones let up it becomes a desperate search for reasons NOT to die.