A quick scan down this page will give a pretty good idea about how I got here.

I’m saying that, at least in the United States, beside our general tendency not to worry too much about troubles elsewhere in the world, unless the fascist media is drumming up another war, as it is with Iran, when it’s just apocalyptically horrible news for all the decades of one’s life, it just hurts too much. People feel utterly impotent… and sustained over decades, humans shut down to it.

I had to learn to take the Israel thing and put it in the freezer for a while to keep from screaming YOU MURDERATING FUCK to every single person trying to make half an excuse for their heinous behavior, and though it’s hard to imagine anything worse, all the horrors of Africa are at least as bad. I don’t remember a time in my life when there weren’t appeals on tv to save the starving babies, and the “conflicts”, and the genocides…. It just gets worse and worse and worse.

The thing about Iran is that they DO have a vague form of Democracy that would almost certainly have grown less vague, more moderate and liberal, had there not been such intense “regime change” pressure from the West, so much filthy, evil, underhanded covert crap, and psychotically INTENSE threats of nuclear holocaust spewing out the mouths of all our politicians — including the sainted President Lying Sack of Spin Obama — like vomit all over the world stage.

So. In sum: Iran is something people don’t feel so cellularly hopeless about. The fascist media doesn’t downplay or completely ignore it. They bombard us with it so we will like it when we nuke those “evil dictators”. This is fresh meat to your average American Joe. So they can care about it, one way or the other, in public.

Besides, “democracy” is code for “fascism” now. Just as the Chinese are not communist anymore, the United States is not democratic anymore… and so much less do we mean it when we are screaming about the need for it elsewhere… let alone in Africa. Africa! Pfeh. Every single “democracy” we ever heard about, from before we were even born has come to worse abjection for the people. Plutocrats make CERTAIN of that. Always. Without exception.

People really do have to start aiming at the heart of all of these awful problems. It isn’t our racism. It isn’t our laziness. It isn’t our overfed apathy. It isn’t our brute ignorance. It’s a whole globe of suffering with one heart. The plutocrats who run everything. EVERYTHING. Everywhere. For all time.