Since my last post turned out to be more socio-political than planned I come with a white flag and something that I enjoy every now and then:
It is of popular knowledge that ignorance is bliss. When you don't know what you're missing, you don't miss it at all. The things that are outside of our field of knowledge, the most part, don't affect us. A person we know can win a million dollars at this moment just because he said hi to his mother on tv and because we don't know about it nor have heard of it we don't care.
Well it's not like that with sex. We might be virgins but since the media is so into letting us know about sex, it's very difficult to avoid the information bombarded at us. That, and the whole puberty thing.
I happen to enjoy the ignorance of being a virgin, and frankly I'm afraid of the consequences that having sex might have now that I know what I have. The teenage giggling, everytime I hear something that is sex related, the word association with anything that has to do with the sex act. Those things make me laugh. And it's not the awkward shy giggle, oh no, that, my friends, has evolved into a mockery laughter. I'm not saying that I don't want to engage in those acts, but at this moment I know that I'll miss this stage in my life. After loosing my virginity, nothing will be the same. Then there'll be a need for sex, and everything I laugh at now will seem childish... So that sucks. Add to that, the insecurity of insatisfaction (what if she didn't like it? what if it ended too soon?). And what's the whole profit of having sex? I look at it as a means of reproducing myself, that's it. Maybe that will also change when I do it.
Whatever, for now I'll keep on giggling and laughing at the simple things like, thongs, panties, bras, cupping a field by association, viagra, female viagra, non-lethal venereal diseases, and whatever embarassing fact someone might throw in the air.
So have sex, enjoy it. Just don't mention anything about it in front of me, because I'll be making really immature comments that might make you feel uncomfortable. Like you don't make people make feel uncomfortable other people when you give all those details about your "nights of passion".
Sunday, May 07, 2006
RETRO BIATCH
My peeps,
I here declare my most sincere rejection to the retro movement. As if it wasn't enough that we have to struggle with our present to see if there's a good possibility to succeed in the future, there are some people that refuse to let go of their "good times" and stagnate in their "golden era". The media is contaminated with retro junkies, and it's not fun anymore. Everyone wants to go back to the 60's, 70's, 80's and/or 90's. What the hell is wrong here?!
The funny thing is that this cultural retrospective movement might be OK if people were actually doing such a retrospective of what they lived in those times, but sadly, that's not the case for most countries. Back in the 1960's my country was amidst political chaos, we just ended a 30 year dictatorship that set us back democratically to the dark ages; the civil conflicts were pretty much a day-to-day reality. Politically unstable, the Dominican Republic was not your groove fest central. Hell no! Revolutions here and there, and politicians trying to grasp power and do whatever they wanted with the country. Some good others (most) bad. Another thing was that the Dominican Republic wasn't entoxicated with pop culture at those times and it was easier to identify our culture. People spoke one language at a time, not that spanglish crap we have to put up nowadays thanks to the people that are too stupid to learn one language correctly and then go to another one. In the 70's the political atmosphere was starting to get little by little more calm, although it wasn't what it was suppossed to be according to the people that killed the dictator. Corruption in our government, if I was to pin point its start, it would be at the late 60's when Juan Bosch and the country fell victim to a coup d'état thanks to the church (and nasty rumors about communism) and the militia (who were upset because of the merit promotions). So why isn't that remembered?
In the 1980's we had "democracy"... No we didn't. We first had one of the most corrupt governments to date, and after that an old decrepit idiot running a country because he was in an ego trip. Some people took advantage of that, which are/were also idiots. That same government was in charge (12 years) of governing the country for half of the 1990s; after that, there was a little bit more of democracy, due to international prssure mostly (no investors, no money). So then we had someone that actually seemed to want to run the country. But from what it seems he wants to turn the country into a mini US... How lovely. Why not become a better DR? Why not come up with our own organic system? Now in the beginning of a new century the people voted, and they picked the stupidest, most ludicrous candidate to run the country to this day; he basically traveled the country and told every investor that he could that the country was not a good place to invest (thanks jackass); what the other 2 year government cleaned (corruption wise) was again sollied by him and his cronies. So now the guy that was elected in the late 1990s is back again, hopefully things will be looking up, since the last government destroyed the economy with unnecessary loans ("hey, who wants a new helicopter?!!") and unsavory delegates.
So why not remember that we're babies when it comes to democracy? Why not rejoice in what made the country what it was in the last half of the last century? Why try to lie to ourselves doing retro parties that are not really retro? Maybe the country has low self steem... And that might be a reality we all have to recognize.
I here declare my most sincere rejection to the retro movement. As if it wasn't enough that we have to struggle with our present to see if there's a good possibility to succeed in the future, there are some people that refuse to let go of their "good times" and stagnate in their "golden era". The media is contaminated with retro junkies, and it's not fun anymore. Everyone wants to go back to the 60's, 70's, 80's and/or 90's. What the hell is wrong here?!
The funny thing is that this cultural retrospective movement might be OK if people were actually doing such a retrospective of what they lived in those times, but sadly, that's not the case for most countries. Back in the 1960's my country was amidst political chaos, we just ended a 30 year dictatorship that set us back democratically to the dark ages; the civil conflicts were pretty much a day-to-day reality. Politically unstable, the Dominican Republic was not your groove fest central. Hell no! Revolutions here and there, and politicians trying to grasp power and do whatever they wanted with the country. Some good others (most) bad. Another thing was that the Dominican Republic wasn't entoxicated with pop culture at those times and it was easier to identify our culture. People spoke one language at a time, not that spanglish crap we have to put up nowadays thanks to the people that are too stupid to learn one language correctly and then go to another one. In the 70's the political atmosphere was starting to get little by little more calm, although it wasn't what it was suppossed to be according to the people that killed the dictator. Corruption in our government, if I was to pin point its start, it would be at the late 60's when Juan Bosch and the country fell victim to a coup d'état thanks to the church (and nasty rumors about communism) and the militia (who were upset because of the merit promotions). So why isn't that remembered?
In the 1980's we had "democracy"... No we didn't. We first had one of the most corrupt governments to date, and after that an old decrepit idiot running a country because he was in an ego trip. Some people took advantage of that, which are/were also idiots. That same government was in charge (12 years) of governing the country for half of the 1990s; after that, there was a little bit more of democracy, due to international prssure mostly (no investors, no money). So then we had someone that actually seemed to want to run the country. But from what it seems he wants to turn the country into a mini US... How lovely. Why not become a better DR? Why not come up with our own organic system? Now in the beginning of a new century the people voted, and they picked the stupidest, most ludicrous candidate to run the country to this day; he basically traveled the country and told every investor that he could that the country was not a good place to invest (thanks jackass); what the other 2 year government cleaned (corruption wise) was again sollied by him and his cronies. So now the guy that was elected in the late 1990s is back again, hopefully things will be looking up, since the last government destroyed the economy with unnecessary loans ("hey, who wants a new helicopter?!!") and unsavory delegates.
So why not remember that we're babies when it comes to democracy? Why not rejoice in what made the country what it was in the last half of the last century? Why try to lie to ourselves doing retro parties that are not really retro? Maybe the country has low self steem... And that might be a reality we all have to recognize.
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