I've never dwelt on this here, because usually it is irrelevant.

But, have you ever heard or read the neocon proverb of turning some place into a pile of glass (through nuking it) or a gigantic parking lot (through conventional weapons?)

Well at times I have considered it, regarding a place which I regard as a shithole (which will just be referred to as "X)." If I did it with a nuclear device, of course, I would affect many other places through fallout, but with conventional weaponry you could make a great parking lot.

There is no way back now. I am going to fuck that place over until the grass doesn't grow anymore. (Copyright Attila)



In all the world, nomadic peoples are heavily discriminated against. For no particular reason other than the refuzal to assimilate into the sedentary majorities. In the Americas, sedentary Natives did it to nomadic Natives. In Africa this happened mostly with Sahelian nomads. Many Pygmies and Khoisan are nomadic too, but they tend to inhabit regions unfit for permanent settlement. In the Middle East it happens with Bedouins despite the status of the idealized Bedouin as a cultural icon of Arab-ness and Islam (the idealized Bedouin being idealized at the expense of the real existing Bedouin). This happens, further, with nomadic Tribals in India. Happened with Mongolians and Manchus in China. And, as everybody already expects me to mention, happens to Rroma in Europe. Today even countries OF nomads, like the Berber and Hausa countries in North Africa, and Mongolia, are falling into that; although they are of course very much behind the rest of the world in anti-nomadic discrimination.



What does this have to do with anything?

The caravan periodically stops at X. The caravan brings me the joy of seeing Rroma girl, who I never see enough.

I don't care for X and if a meteorite fell over their heads I'd just say "wow, what a bout of bad luck" but I went to X every while to check for the caravan.

Last I know they have taken measures to prevent the caravan from stopping there. This is no older than two days.

Moreover, since I know for sure the caravan was there, it means too that they physically kicked out Rroma girl (and family.)

That would upset me a lot already; but if it happened in some 1%-er suburb I would, while not justify it, understand it.

However, X is far from that. When I describe it as a shithole, it isn't because it is poor or backward. It isn't backward in any realistic measure, and though it could and should certainly be richer, I cannot say with a straight face that it's poor. It is because it has the worst people I've ever known. I realize this is not and cannot be universal; but it is simply widespread enough to pollute everything. As Edmund Burke said, the only thing required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. I know for a fact of many things which have happened there which I cannot describe as other than evil, or if I am feeling very generos, sociopathic. Some of them only evil; and some of them also criminal (in the legal sense: ie, illegal.) And yet, nothing irking me the most, nobody does anything abot it. Life continues the same. People know evil and don't care. The Burkean warning works - good men do nothing and evil prevails. Even though I have seen nothing of it which cannot be prevented or stopped just by taking a stand. It's just that nobody does it. And this is why X is a shithole.

…but then they go and kick out the nomads, who are entirely inoffensive, and indeed better than many of them, for no reason other than anti-nomadic prejudice.

This makes it many orders of magnitude worse.

Their beams are so far up their eyes they're coming out of their ass.

The only reason I am not hiring Israeli mercenaries to shoot random civilians and blow up random homes is because I am a little short of cash.

I am praying for the meteorite, but seriosly, if I ever wondered what mass shooters feel, I probably know now.



I am not a good person. I never was a good person. I am vengeful. I am cruel. And life has made me more and more pessimistic as it goes by. I am capable of love, and oh yes, I love love. But I am jealous with my love, and who doesn't deserve any, will only get the very opposite. I am very tolerant of legitimate difference. I am very intolerant of willful harm. And all the more invested about willful harm to my girls.

May God forgive them, because Hajduk will not.