B. U. G. S.

I tend to laugh in the wrong places, and then feel very lonely.

One example I gave in my book was that, at the age of 17, I first heard the Preamble to the Soviet Constitution. It declared that the USSR was a union of workers, peasant, soldiers, and intellectuals.” I laughed out loud. Then I noticed the rest of the class and the professor were looking at me funny.

Again.

To me, the idea that this guy will work in a factory, that guy will work on the farm, and the others guy will be out there freezing his butt off on the front until he loses an arm, while I am “the intellectual” who sits in an office and gives the orders is FUNNY. Who would fall for a load of crap like that?

Who would take that crap SERIOUSLY?

Everybody but me, apparently.

I did the same kind of lonely laughing at a documentary dedicated to the oncoming weather catastrophe. At one point, they state that in fifty to a hundred years the ocean would overwhelm the coast, and that over fifty percent of America’s population LIVES on the land that will be drowned fifty to a hundred years from now! The clear implication is half our population is in eminent danger of drowning.

I STILL can’t write this without bursting into a fit of giggles.

I live in the state where many people didn’t get out of the way of Hugo. I know a lot of people got drowned by Katrina. But even the present administration of the City of New Orleans could probably evacuate most of the population within fifty to one hundred years.

In order to keep up the drama, this program went on to show how Africa had suffered when the weather went awry. But Africa can’t cope with ANYTHING. When was the last time you a picture of starving child who was NOT in Africa? Hundreds of thousands are starving in North Korea and in places like Haiti. You don’t have to be in Africa to have a black skin.

If half of the money spent on Studying World Hunger were spent on food and transportation, nobody would be starving outside the black and Communist worlds. We had a blog entry about a Japanese researcher in Britain who did a study saying that Africa’s problems were due to low IQ. A representative from Oxfam, the anti-hunger group, attacked him for being a yellow naziwhowantedtokillsixmillionjews.

What does Oxfam have to do with this? Nobody cares WHY a child is starving, but Oxfam is there for ideology, not hunger. Can you imagine how many children could be fed the minimum diet they need for the salary that career spokesman gets?

But this is not the point. The point goes back to why that documentary had to shout that half of America was going to drown because the population could not be moved in a period of fifty to a hundred years. You and I know why they implied that:

It was EXCITING.

A whole classroom full of people takes “a union of workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals” seriously because it is about the most exciting thing you can to a classroom:

That lecturer up there living the welfare-state life of a tenured professor is not the drone he looks like. He is a Hero who will lead the Working Class. He, along with his fellow intellectuals, meaning YOU, will overthrow all those generals and politicians and capitalists – No one will ever again ask him, “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you RICH?” — – and he, along with his Faithful Hippy Companions – YOU, no less, will assume your rightful role as rulers of the Earth.

That’s why I laughed my ass off. And that’s why I was the only one who did.