by americandream » Thu 19 Jun 2008, 00:40:57
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('btu2012', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'H')owever, fortunately for YOU, being born behind the lines of the advancing troops, you were oblivious to what was going on until the ranks have begun to thin and you are now catching a glimpse of the not so nice pain thats being endured by those YOu hadn't a clue existed, and the risk their advance now poses in your little cacoon of nirvanic utopia.
Miss Dream,
I have no problem with you imagining me as the class enemy. However I doubt that you have much understanding of poverty, war, class conflict and so on. In fact I think that you are a rather good example of someone who has a personal issue which she mistakes for a social issue.
Furthermore, you attribute to me some sort of privileged origins and wonderland life experience which is simply a creation of your feverish mind.
What I find most disturbing in your posts is to what extent they are motivated by incessant, obsessive hatred and how little respect and consideration they show towards your fellow humans and towards their life experience. You seem to live in an abstract world where everything can be reduced to the Manichean system of communism/capitalism, a black and white caricature highly suggestive of a personality with borderline traits. This is supported by your use of glittering idealizations and verbiage, which suggests a marked lack of true human connection as well as lack of emotional content.
The world isn't
split into black or white, but is a mixture of black, white and many shades and colors in between. You will keep being abandoned and avoided by others as long as you fail to deal with your issue, which is not their fault.
This being said, I strongly recommend that you visit both the Russian gulag and the Congo, it order to get some basic
reference of what other human beings have been through, and perhaps some understanding of how privileged you have been when compared to them. Never assume the life experience of the person you are talking to.
Setting aside the Russian Gulag, I would suggest that you visit the rest of this traumatised planet raped by deceit and lies by the likes of you and your conservative ilk. And I would add Congo to that list, incidentally the primary source of coltan used in mobile phones:
"Cell phones may have revolutionized the way we communicate, but in Central Africa their biggest legacy is war. Nearly 3 million people have died in Congo in a four-year war over coltan, a heat-resistant mineral ore widely used in cell phones, laptops and playstations. Eighty percent of the world's coltan reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The mountainous jungle area where the coltan is mined is the battleground of what has been grimly dubbed "Africa's first World War", pitting Congolese forces against those of six neighbouring countries and numerous armed factions. The victims are mostly civilians. Starvation and disease have killed hundreds of thousands and the fighting has displaced 2 million people from their homes. Often dismissed as an ethnic war, the conflict is really over natural resources sought by foreign corporations - diamonds, tin, copper, gold, but mostly coltan. At stake for the multitude of heavily armed militias and governments is a cut of the high-tech boom of the 1990s, which sent the price of coltan skyrocketing to peak at US$400 per kilo. Coltan -- short for Colombo-tantalite -- is refined into tantalum, a "magic powder" essential to many electronic devices. The war started in 1998 when Congolese rebel forces, backed by Rwanda and Uganda, seized eastern Congo and moved into strategic mining areas, attacking villages along the way. The Rwandan Army was soon making an estimated US$20 million a month from coltan mining. A May 2002 report from the United Nations Security Council said the huge coltan profits are fuelling the war and allowing "a large number" of government officials, rebels and foreigners "to amass as much wealth as possible." The fighting rages on despite peace treaties signed in the summer of 2002."
Incidentally, I am a bloke.