Maru's Mun Journal

Over on tumblr, I had a spontaneous ramble about ways of doing work in the MCU/The Avengers.

And I'm not even touching what S.H.I.E.L.D. does. That would require yet another mega-ramble...

... but as the Little Lady has gone home, I'm catching up with my usual life.

I liked this article about how repressed we are, today, compared to the sixties. Especially about the duty to be healthy at other people's standards.

I guess that's why fat people, and especially those of us into fat acceptance as a cultural and political movement, get so much hate thrown at them: - we walk around brazenly denying our society's cardinal virtue, 'health' (as defined by other people's rigid standards). You can smoke or drink or bonk in secret; you can't be secretly fat. And if you're not walking the walk and talking the talk of 'OMG I must lose weight I am gross and so unhealthy!!1!1eleventy-one!!', we are really dangerous rebels.

People can see us having fun and might fall off the wagon peer pressure has put them on, no matter what it is about for them personally. Others, who have perfected their self-repression in the name of health, just hate us for very visibly scorning, ignoring or plain old despising something they use up all their spoons for.

So, it's morning, and there's now three conspiracies vying for my headspace. So I'm going to post them. Mark well, I don't believe in conspiracy theories. They can be defined as obviously idiotic explanantions you concoct as not to have to deal with the complexity of the real world. "Saddam Hussein has WMDs and is harbouring terrorists" was a classic conspiracy theory. They are stories we plug into the inexplicability of reality because we, as humans, want things to make sense.

What I needed to invent a likely explanation for is the fact that Kerry gave in prematurely when it was really not his place to say yet whom the voters had really wanted. He might want not to look like a sore loser - but who bloody cares what he bloody looks like, this is about people bloody dying in Iraq and not some bloody gentlemanly game or even just paying back your supporters, as in other elections! There were deathly serious issues, and he bloody betrayed them! Everybody who voted for him had their vote bloody wasted now, and all anti-Bush supporters had their incredibly passionate work thrown into the bloody garbage! [/rant]

So, to my storyteller's mind, three more or less likely stories have suggested themselves:

They stole the election again. Remember how the story that Kerry had phoned Bush and conceded defeat and yadda yadda amorphously came up on the media networks first? What if they rigged that the moment they knew when Kerry was going to give a talk on whatever - of course each side has people among the other candidate's team. So what if Kerry never did intend to concede? He just couldn't say anything else after everyone had said he had.. You don't accuse you opponent of such weird things. You just don't. Unless you're Dubya, of course.

Frat blood is thicker than voters'. Both candidates had been in Yale, and member of the infamous Skull & Bones. That group is a standing conspiracy if there ever was one in our society, beyond the Freemasons, the Rotarians, and the Nazgul, the Lady Iris and me (last thing is an in joke; please disregard). What if they made an agreement among old comrades before that went something like, "If there's anything like a fifty/ffty situation again, it goes to the incumbent, as it's all to our common frat good anyway"?

Hillary '08. This isn't really my conspiracy theory; I think Telepolis had it ages ago, before the caususes, even. This basically said that for the strategic good of the Democrat party, there is no point in seriously challenging an incumbent in times of a crisis. And a crisis they certainly manufactured up to the last moment, thanks to generous help from Usama releasing a video just in time to help his old friend George. (Sorry, am becoming needlessly sarcastic at this point.) So, whatever the truth, whoever is dying, whatever Michael Moore and marchenland say, they were not going to risk a serious candidate this time around when Hillary Clinton becomes available in four years' time, will not run against an incumbent, and is rather guaranteeed to win. So, of course Kerry and his backers conceded. They weren't going to fight with teeth and claws for something they didn't really want with all that much passion. No matter what the voters wanted with however much passion.

-- So, here you have my conspiracy theories as to Why Kerry Conceded. Now have some nice music as well. minkhollow has yousendited it, and it fits the present situation with spooky and scary perfection, although it was really written about Nixon and Vietnam, not Bush and Iraq.

"Monster", by Steppenwolf

If the link runs out because of too many downloads before next Wednesday, let either me or her know, and we'll yousendit it again, and fix the link. Go download and listen, everyone!

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sorry, first link is in German. wiebke can read the source, the rest will have to believe me.-

German online magazine Telepolis reports that linguists from New Zealand quote statistic evidence that the Indo-European family of languages originated 8.500 to 9.000 years ago in the highlands of Anatolia. The findings are by no mean non-controversial or uncontested, but still.

All of us who have been at GrisseCon know who lived exactly in that place exactly at that time. Did these people really invent everything we use, even the precursor of the effin' language today's global mainstream culture is carried by???

At a slightly different note: wiebke told me at the chat that Ricardo was totally surprised and flabberghasted at GrisseCon when he listened to Andy Collins' lecture about the Watchers - because he had never heard of them, but realised immediately that they were almost identical to the Chosen in his books (that he thought he had invented all by himself)!! I thought he'd done it all on purpose, masterfully working with archetypes from every human culture, making the Watchers the hub of a civilisation that spread worldwide, but I was wrong! It wasn't on purpose, it was the archetypes asserting themselves by purely memetic strategies: being part of our culture, Ricardo knew the Watchers without realising that he did.

Now he knows officially and up-front. I only hope that new knowledge won't interfere with his finishing the third part of his wonderful book...

http://leslie-fish.clan-majere.org/mp3/dragoncon.MP3
... and the more I hear about it, the more I want to go.

All the things there are to see, and all the people there are to meet - I guess I shall not sleep a minute while I'm there! Afterwards, I'll probably hide out in Boondocks motel in Boondocks county and sleep until it's time to catch my flight home...

On another note, I was watching a very serious science magazine on a serious public TV channel last week, and near the end they did a book rec/review - about Andy Collins' book on Atlantis in the Caribbean or something!! They said that some of the conclusion were a bit idiosyncratic, but all in all it was very well researched and extremely thought-provoking. And that from very serious mainstream science journalists! Whooo-hoo!! I kept *telling* that fellow his theories weren't as wacky and esoteric as he thought and claimed they were - and now this! I hope he thinks himself still wacky & esoteric enough to come along to Grissecon 2 next year, though...