Allez les femmes!In many ways, there has been little change in how women are portrayed in the various media. Some can still be found draped over expensive cars and posing in dirty magazines. Obviously there are tons of persistent objectifications going on. Who are the biggest victims of pornography? Not women this time, it's the men. Each time a punter debases himself while he wanks for Britain, he loses a part of his intergrity as he sees women there for his needs. You might ask about how I have the gall to point an accusing finger, how am I beyond reproach? Only like a good soldier, am I liberated from the saucy/sexy trap by self training, by remaining celebate and the realisaton that what I am doing brings its rewards in spades. So don't bother throwing your toys from the pram, you just career around the sweet shops stuffing your faces. If you meet a real woman one day, hope she can be bothered to help sort yourself out. Anyone sense the directions being taken by womankind? It's there to see. I'm afraid that we men are becoming a bit of a laughing stock. It's real, y'know - who might be best placed to supplant the international male aggression leading to warfare? Women are gradually closing off access by men to the castle keep. I hope they have some compassion left to share. Z.
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Trees are brilliant. They represent so much of nature's epitome. Lungs in summer and brains in winter. Shafted like a penis, hugging not aware it is sexual. Trunks surge from within the earth and occupy their stature with pride and ownership. Every year I turn to the trees to furnish me with a reality check, winter's cold comfort and humiliation yet saved by the grace of each miracle. The miracle to those in cahoots with the dudes with a bark. Z.
Among what memories I have of philosophy I did during my undergraduate years, political philosophy has been the more valuable to me of the disciplines. One of the more telling misnomers I came to attribute to crackpot philosophy, is, 'freedom.' Many humanists assert that the crown jewels of politics are individual freedoms. Above, torture, false imprisonment, suppression &c. A free society is one where personal freedoms are numerous and protected. Freedom I speak of, however, is exactly the humanist grail that God is to religion or nirvana is to buddhism. Specifically, it remains a great requirement to superimpose humanist freedom at its highest expression and experiential meaning with nirvana. Few grasp this key to the basis of humanity-oriented social and personal Liberation. It is pointless to point out the systems of this, future, human endeavour. Seek only the perfect freedom as you chase this, the most exhilirating of the pantheon of chinese symbolist guides, the dragon.Z.
