High and Mighty
Today was (maybe) my last day at AHo for the summer.
But...
The more I'm here, the more I like being here. In the past 48 hours, I've been contemplating a scenario in which JRE08 doesn't call back and tell me the good or bad news, and I'm struck with the possibility of staying in town at AHo for the summer, playing barefoot street soccer in the intersection between Beech and Vine, or going up and not doing much of anything, but having Tim Ryan's name on a resume.
I'm at a point where I might go the way of the marijuana, to put it one (horribly blunt and coarse) way.
In the past two evenings, I've re-upped on all the political discussion that I missed during finals week and graduation weekend. Last night Drury and I sat on his roof and discussed humanity's moral role as a species of the animal kingdom. Tonight, we sat on his porch with buddy Johnny and discussed humanity's moral role in the politics of human nature as something separated from the animal kingdom, more prominently concerning the role of 24 in American/Western culture, and its contribution to the diminishing stigma of torture. It was some good mind-sexing, ya mean? My favorite sound-byte:
"America's foreign policy has been dominated by those reactionaries who believe that we can, by force, blow our way back into a global world order of the 'pre-9/11' mentality. But that will innately lead to the same mistakes that led to the inevitability of 9/11. The mindset we should have that will be the most successful in a 'post-9/11' world is to look at what we did foreign policy-wise to contribute to the political inspirations for that type of intercontinental terrorism. We cannot react to an attack defensively; it is true that the best defense is good offense. And yet, these offenses will not be most successful by military means. We can rectify a situation that we've created in the Middle East over the past 30 years, but it will be a long term solution with no foreseeable short term prizes. Instead, we will be asked to sacrifice for our future generations' own security, and this is the opportunity humanity has been given to finally separate itself from the animal kingdom, and at the same time returning itself to the most fundamental elements of nature."
And we weren't even smoking.
Mlergwa is burning on fire right now.
But...
The more I'm here, the more I like being here. In the past 48 hours, I've been contemplating a scenario in which JRE08 doesn't call back and tell me the good or bad news, and I'm struck with the possibility of staying in town at AHo for the summer, playing barefoot street soccer in the intersection between Beech and Vine, or going up and not doing much of anything, but having Tim Ryan's name on a resume.
I'm at a point where I might go the way of the marijuana, to put it one (horribly blunt and coarse) way.
In the past two evenings, I've re-upped on all the political discussion that I missed during finals week and graduation weekend. Last night Drury and I sat on his roof and discussed humanity's moral role as a species of the animal kingdom. Tonight, we sat on his porch with buddy Johnny and discussed humanity's moral role in the politics of human nature as something separated from the animal kingdom, more prominently concerning the role of 24 in American/Western culture, and its contribution to the diminishing stigma of torture. It was some good mind-sexing, ya mean? My favorite sound-byte:
"America's foreign policy has been dominated by those reactionaries who believe that we can, by force, blow our way back into a global world order of the 'pre-9/11' mentality. But that will innately lead to the same mistakes that led to the inevitability of 9/11. The mindset we should have that will be the most successful in a 'post-9/11' world is to look at what we did foreign policy-wise to contribute to the political inspirations for that type of intercontinental terrorism. We cannot react to an attack defensively; it is true that the best defense is good offense. And yet, these offenses will not be most successful by military means. We can rectify a situation that we've created in the Middle East over the past 30 years, but it will be a long term solution with no foreseeable short term prizes. Instead, we will be asked to sacrifice for our future generations' own security, and this is the opportunity humanity has been given to finally separate itself from the animal kingdom, and at the same time returning itself to the most fundamental elements of nature."
And we weren't even smoking.
Mlergwa is burning on fire right now.