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Posted by sigismund on December 6, 2010, at 11:01:39
My psychiatrist and I were talking about everything as usual, in particular air travel, since he has just done some and I will soon too. The conversation went something like this.
He speaks first.
You wouldn't want to step out of line.
You know there was a man who was sitting on a plane and the man next to him asked him to look after a parcel he was holding as he needed to go to the toilet, and the first man said 'I hope it's not a bomb', and he was arrested for it?
For using the B word?
For lese majesty I think.
Amazing.
This is a world that has lost it's moral moorings. If you think back to the 70s when there was a real challenge to the system, no one would have reacted like this.
The world has changed since 9/11.
They'll tazer you and say they were using the most humane option and what's more they will believe it.
Posted by Free on December 6, 2010, at 20:17:19
In reply to My session, posted by sigismund on December 6, 2010, at 11:01:39
> You know there was a man who was sitting on a plane and the man next to him asked him to look after a parcel he was holding as he needed to go to the toilet, and the first man said 'I hope it's not a bomb', and he was arrested for it?
That's unbelievable.
I know there are forbidden items on the plane because they took away my mini wine opener and liquid cosmetics.
But I didn't know that there are forbidden words, too! Who reported him anyway? Did some trigger happy
nearby passenger push a button?I'm flying in a few weeks, and not looking forward to all the paranoid scanning rituals... I wonder what would happen if I blurt out something like "Wow, these peanuts are da bomb!" I guess it would be funny til they try to arrest me. :)
The post 9/11 world is a strange and skewed place. It has changed the airports forever.
Flying is such a drag now.
Posted by sigismund on December 7, 2010, at 17:50:52
In reply to Re: My session, posted by Free on December 6, 2010, at 20:17:19
This is the age of Empire and Decline.
You may not remember the Pentagon Papers. I do recall Ellsberg being characterisd as the most dangerous man in America. I do not recall anyone calling for his assassination. Yet here, no one will stand up and say of Julian Assange (local boy from here) that he is an Australian citizen entitled to the protection of the law. The only thing that mattters is the health of the Empire. Whether the Swedes have issued the arrest warrant for not using a condom in consensual sex to protect him from the Americans or to hand him over to them, time will tell.
Posted by sigismund on December 7, 2010, at 17:54:15
In reply to Re: My session » Free, posted by sigismund on December 7, 2010, at 17:50:52
>The only thing that matters is the health of the Empire.
That's not true, either.
Nothing is true these days.
It's all a tissue of lies, as Ingmar Bergman wrote in a different context.
Posted by Free on December 7, 2010, at 22:13:53
In reply to Re: My session » Free, posted by sigismund on December 7, 2010, at 17:50:52
>Yet here, no one will stand up and say of Julian Assange (local boy from here) that he is an Australian citizen entitled to the protection of the law.
Certainly not Gillard...threatening to deny his passport.
>The only thing that mattters is the health of the Empire. Whether the Swedes have issued the arrest warrant for not using a condom in consensual sex to protect him from the Americans or to hand him over to them, time will tell.Apparently JA's got a huge trump card to play if he gets into a more dire fix. Thousands of his supporters have thermonuclear device (encrypted computer files containing all of the papers WikiLeaks has ever received, with names of spies, soldiers and sources.) If anything happens to him, the code to the files would be released, unleashing a flood of damaging documents...
May the light safely guide him through his perilous journey.
(I like your psychiatrist.)
Posted by Free on December 7, 2010, at 23:21:42
In reply to Re: My session » sigismund, posted by sigismund on December 7, 2010, at 17:54:15
> It's all a tissue of lies, as Ingmar Bergman wrote in a different context.
Yeah, the tissue of lies are the main focus in my therapy these days. But I don't have a glass of wine in my hand. Thank goodness.
Did you know that Bergman is Woody Allen's favorite film maker? It surprised me at first, but it made sense, when I thought about it
I find both of their work compelling...psychologically deep, intelligent, and off-beat.
Posted by sigismund on December 7, 2010, at 23:42:58
In reply to Re: My session, posted by Free on December 7, 2010, at 23:21:42
The excellent (and rich?) Mike Huckebee(sp?) called for the death penalty for him.
I was just stupid taking all that nation state stuff seriously.
As for Gillard, this is meant to be the Labor Party.
Posted by sigismund on December 8, 2010, at 3:28:24
In reply to Re: My session » sigismund, posted by Free on December 7, 2010, at 22:13:53
>I like your psychiatrist.
It's nice to have someone to share a reality with.
I once shamelessly encouraged him:
'Are there any politicians in Parliament you admire?'
'No, Sigismund. I wouldn't breathe the same air as any of them if I was in the same room as them.'
And I thought to myself, 'But I can certainly think of 2 or maybe even 3.'Once he was absolutely therapeutic:
'Sometimes I'm so embarrassed to be part of this species I feel like killing myself.'
'Oh no. I think it's fascinating.'And once he was quite humourous and unpatronising.
'When I'm in Vietnam I might see if I can get hold of some tandospirone.'
'Or something useful like opium.'
Posted by floatingbridge on December 24, 2010, at 13:57:12
In reply to My session, posted by sigismund on December 6, 2010, at 11:01:39
> The world has changed since 9/11.
>
> They'll tazer you and say they were using the most humane option and what's more they will believe it.Do you think it's really changed taking the long view? Or become global/fascist.
Your shrink, well, I don't think he'd work well for me. I don't need the encouragement to hang myself. Don't
have the resiliency or curiosity you have Sigi.Our little family was at the County Fair. Every year for maybe the past five, the Sheriff sets up a display / recruiting / PR Booth. A tank, various cars, action pictures. We've always managed to avoid it. Not this year. Some officer with 25 or more pounds of stuff in his belt, and he won't answer any direct question from my son. Like What's that? What does it do? Why do you have it? He (the officer) wouldn't identify his gun. He did, when asked, identify his tazer, but then when stoney silent.
How do you explain a tazer to a child?
That man was a coward in my eyes. The audacity to strut around a PR Booth in full regalia and not the backbone to talk to a six year old. That angers me.
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