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Do you know the way?

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Do you know the way

to San Jose?

I've spent some time in California as an observer, not really vacationing, but road-tripping. Road tripping makes perfect sense in California. It's the kind of place where people are either nice and friendly or . . . well you know the score, I'm sure.

And being a person who likes to take a long drive it was a revelation to me when I got to the place where I was able to understand my own obsessions about 'place'. California can not be 'summed up'. Nor can anyone give you a valid description of 'Chicanos' or 'Latinos' or 'Tejanos'. There are too many people in those categories, and the categories themselves are flawed. We just don't need to be terse. No one can understand or say to speak for such vast populations of people.

But there is a myopia that happens with some people. They have a narrative with which they invest heavily and it is full of concepts of 'us' and 'them' based upon . . . ? ? ?

One would hope it is based upon some valid education or life experience of theirs. And so it's OK for people to think in terms of 'Latin' or 'Italian' or 'Christian' or 'Jewish'. And just because some use words that are . . . in a sense just glosses, the words are in some sense necessary for people to understand the stories that are being told about the past, and other people. People self identify. So it's not something that you can pretend isn't real.

And so we hope for that age when all of that, what I would politely call B_llull Shiiiee, you can guess what words I'd use, we hope for an age when whole groups of families wouldn't self identify as an 'us' and then put upon some other families a 'them' and life in a world of constant grudge. We all know that a Mexican or an American or an Italian or an whatever is who she/he/? is and represents a singular person: them-self. And thus when you see some one who you see as different it's kind of sort of insulting, in a sense, to imagine that everyone who has that same look, whose from a similar pool of family ties, who is of what we would call 'the same type' if we didn't see saying 'type' as being perhaps indicative of some kind of bigoted point of view. The allegation: people who grow up in a 'privilege' situation have deeply embedded stereotypes that they harbor, which are fallacies. OK. But that ought to apply to everyone and anyone. But, instead, it gets applied to those who imagine their own 'privilege'. Luxury comes in very many different flavors and kinds.

So we all have these preconceptions. And when we see a room of people do we see a room of 'all this' or 'all that'? Or do we see a group of individuals? But in the case where people are really banded together, ie: they affiliate with each other and support each other in some background way, that no ne else outside their group has privy to. What does it matter, they are all together and fine. Great. But what if they are all together and fine and their business is to prey on all of the other families who are also all together and fine? Sounds like a criminal family, in some sense. But if that is so, is it really? Or is that just a counter narrative to that of the families success, on account of them working together? And jealousy has made someone so envious come up with this counter narrative of 'they get it through illicite means'. Far fetched to go along with such . . . but then we are faced with something like a criminal drug mafia. Fast forward to Juarez. It represents the health of the nations. When Juarez suffers the world rots from there. So we know how horrible it was or is there and what kind of villainy went on. And are we to forget about it? And disrespect the people who have lost their lives? It was a situation made worse, perhaps, by scheming of presidents and kings (of the various institutional realms of governance) and the loose policies in some areas created a tsunami of . . . bad tidings. Let me just say, that without providing for you any examples, I will state that the news out of Juarez, and those places in Mexico near to there, got really really grim about 7 or 8 years ago, and it wasn't anything that America did, or wanted. But maybe what criminals wanted. A drug war? So they say. The fact of how much violence that went on, goes on there . . . my point?

But we know that just over the border in El Paso we are just a little bit (a lot) safer. And appartently in San Jose, you are getting to the place that should be even safer, you might think. But what is it that made it unsafe?

It's an attitude. It's a point of view. It's this 'ra ra us, damn you all opposed to us' point of view that isn't particularly San Jose old family California (the colonial Mexican/Spanish). It's not restricted to proud San Jose aristocratic California-Mexican. It's the kind of crazy that can come from any well-healed or un-well-healed family. It's just garden variety supremicism, and it has no purpose beyond the borders of the regin, and gets no respect even at home. If that is all you are, and you feel beleaguered, and you are part of a well connected old-line family who has a mayor and a chief of police running a town, can you really keep blaming 'anglos' for the problems in your community? Of course some can, and some do. Probably there are a lot of people from those same families who know that strain of crazy. I've heard the same kind of crap from a certain type of grandparent who feeds their kids and grand-kids with old world provincial hatreds, hatreds based upon things that happened centuries ago, Islands where all the French forces were slaughtered (it has happened repeatedly through out history to French forces).

So my response when faced with that kind of attitude is to say 'why are you telling me? what did I ever do to put your people, as you call them, down? And if one of your family is a mayor, and the other a cheif of police? Are you really being kept down? Maybe there are other problems that go beyond some simple minded sociological dichotomy of lineage?

Maybe so, we can hope. On the street we get what we see. And those who use their ethnicity as an excuse to do a beat-down are just as criminal as those who do it just for the thrill of it. In either case it's a criminal assault on people who did not deserve (no one ever deserves a beat down where they really get hurt).

OK, so I do understand the idea of a 'beat down' It's something that is done to a willful violator of others as a way to 'smarten them up' when law or other authority seems to not work. A beat down might also involve a hit, which would be sanctioned but not by government or courts. If you want to know who sanctions such things I am only telling you hearsay, and I don't know anything about this more primitive form of fraternity of order. Maybe I'm just making it up to put the fear in anyone who thinks that they have license to be the ones to do political beat-downs. A beat-down is always tyranny, and always criminal, but sometimes, some will say that they are . . . Should I complete the sentence? Am I writing for naves? People who don't read the paper, don't know about paying your debts to your heroin dealers or your bookies, people who think that they can get away from stealing from a criminal drug dealer? Guess what, it might be illegal but it still has a code of ethics. Is that hard to understand?

So we can live in the world of fear and imagine that there are these scary groups who oppose our group and keep us down. And only give justice to those of our group which some allege has happened last week in San Jose (time will tell. We need to see if anyone gets charged for the lynchings that happened. If justice is only for your own that it is not justice at all. But that never justifies anyone to do a 'beat down' on someone who they use as a scapegoat to represent what they perceive as the evils of some 'they', opposed to theirs. If justice is only for the ones of your own type, it isn't justices. And if you think it's OK to do 'payback' and withhold the support of law enforcement for those who you delude are your political opposition? You are a criminally minded person who does not deserve to be in leadership if you think that justice is only for you and yours and not for anyone who you don't like.

Clean water, even for you enemies. Justice is a form of clean water. There is no acceptable level of violence against political opponents. Everyone is outraged by it, for the most part, who has a credible voice. Anyone who makes excuses for such lynching, as like what is alleged to have occurred last week in San Jose, anyone who justifies it for any reason, they really shouldn't have wide distribution for their fomenting.

So we need to wait and see how the justice gets administered. And what we hear some say about their political opponents is really them facing their worst fears about themselves? We wish.

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Political and Media Inanity

Kafka wrote comedy. Orwell was a pessimist. Depends who you ask.

Truck-u-later

in this column Truck-u-later steps in deeper . . .

May 29, 2016

Billion dollar ideas? They are all around us!

Alright. We'll be changing it up a little bit!.

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isn't the same as the actual occurance.
one is a fiction, for the purposes of readership.
The second, a sad and delusional descent into 
a hell of a hall of mirrors: one sees one's own 
hatred reflecting back
from everyone. You don't see them, but
what you reflect
off of them.
You don't know them at all, really, then, do you?
So how can you hate them?

Cal:

"I never minded the surveillance society. I've always been kind of an exhibitionist"

June 6, 2016

"I never minded the surveillance society. I've always been kind of an exhibitionist."

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