I’ve been so distraught over the continuing leak of
naughty photos of high profile actresses that I’d almost forgotten about the
bigger world. I mean, let’s face it, that there more topless images of Kim Kardashian, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy is more than a bit surprising considering the subject (clothed
candids might be more of a rarity).
And don’t get me started on Hope Solo. Actually, the only surprising thing for
me is how people allow themselves to get talked into this type of behavior and
situation but never expect it to end unpleasantly.
Meanwhile, half-way around the world, the Arab Spring (of
2013) which was a headline here in the Land of the Round Door Knobs for about
forty-five minutes way back when has had an echo in the splash of color in the
monotone cloth of conformity that Hong Kong is to the People’s Republic of
China as tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people have taken to the streets demanding
the right to have democratic processes we here who do have them have allowed to
wither away from neglect and disinterest.
As Cold War Kids we called mainland China Red China
even as our parents demanded Washington D. C. ‘unleash Chiang Kai-Shek’ which, with a
half-century of hindsight, ranks with Dick Cheney’s assurance the Iraqi people would greet US troops as liberators
as bleary-eyed, drunken optimism.
All the elements for a Greek tragedy are moving into
place as the irresistible force camps out in the streets of the immovable
object. One party in this disagreement already has all the
experience anyone could ever need in not only crushing dissent but in
power-washing the remnants of peaceful protesters from between tank treads.
Happy Silver Anniversary.
If that language upsets you, you probably need to stick
to leaked nudies of Kate Upton as a staple in your news feed rather than become
angry at what the Chinese government will most definitely do to its own people
while we watch, or perhaps because they know all we’ll do is watch.
I’m thinking of Bob Dylan’s The
Times They Are A-Changin’ and the flood waters of inevitable alterations yet to come in a society signaling dissent with an umbrella never
realizing no single drop of rain
feels itself responsible for the flood which follows.
-bill kenny
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