Exit this Roman shell

[imomus]

For those of you thinking of leaving America today -- and there are many, I'm sure -- I'd say just do it. Walk away. Leaving Britain is the best thing I ever did. I lived for years there feeling like a political and cultural exile, trying to fight back with satire and a thousand subtle forms of stubbornness and resistance. But being an 'internal exile' is not good for the soul. My struggle with attitudes which seemed toxic to me started making me as hard, cynical and corrupt as the people and the attitudes I was fighting.

Soon I realised that British people were not going to change. At least not in my short lifetime. My contribution was never going to be accepted in that country. It was much easier to get up and go. You can change the world around you by simply getting on a plane and going to the place where they think like you, even if they don't speak the same language you speak. So I went to live in France. In Germany. In Japan. I became a world citizen.

I started to think in terms of cities, and even districts of cities, rather than nations. I made my own cut and paste environment, a place where I felt comfortable and valued. I selected its elements from the internet and the parts of the cities I loved and went to live in. I count the moment I left my incorrigible homeland as the moment my adult life really began. I am now a much happier and better adjusted person.

So just leave. America doesn't deserve you. Walk away. America doesn't need your talent, your creativity and your intelligence. Or rather, it needs them desperately, but it will never acknowledge that. It's too stupid to understand that. If it calls for you, it will call for you for the wrong reasons. It will call you up as a soldier. It will call for you as canon-fodder in some spurious and unnecessary war that serves the interests of 1% of its population and an even smaller percentage of the world's population. Even if it lets you live in relative peace as a mere civilian, it will force you to live in ways that destroy the world's weather systems and its environment. It will use your tax to fund pre-emptive wars of aggressive imperialism against impoverished nations with energy resources.

Leave while you still can. Leave as a civilian, not a soldier. Leave and lead the life you were born to lead. Your absence will hurt America economically, but it deserves that. And it doesn't deserve you.

Get a passport, get a visa. Work a job, save some money. Come to Europe, come to Japan. Life is more civilised here. Come as you are, come to work, come to play, come to stay. Make love to foreigners, not Americans. Make non-American babies. Make your children world citizens, as you make yourself one.

Then you know in your brain
Leave the capitol!
Exit this roman shell!
Then you know you must leave the capitol

Leave the capitol!
Exit this roman shell!

It will not drag me down
I will leave this ten times town
I will leave this fucking dump
One room, one room

(The Fall, 'Leave The Capitol')

Comments

..the best written assessment of the 'election'

[(Anonymous)]

...games of old white men playing spin the gun in their secret chamber:

invoking the dead ghosts of richard nixion: adolf hitler: stalin: joseph mc carthy: j. edgar hover: pol pot of cambodia:

henry kissenger sits somewhere stroking his small shriveled jewish cock as the abe lincoln with the 'jfk' logos candidate has played his part oh so well --

the plot-line for this election haas served the roman ghost empire well - the most intelligent minds and peoples spent time and monies and efforts in overturning the emperor but instead just fed his parasitic machine designed to play the tune to summon the monkey boys to arms:

..you know the monkey boys well -- right now they are collectively gathered at their computers sniffing for those 'fucking libels' to assassinate and kill in virtual time with their snappy reparte:

'...hey faggot -- fuck you: you don't like our president then fuck you you osama bin laden fag you.. fuck you...'

or the most appropiate call to monkey boy arms --

'...hey fucker: do you remember that something called 9-11....'

these are the monkey boys: all teeth and all shit flung from their tree tops and their high hyper screechings when challenged with the facts behind the tryanny of monkey man george (..to observe this monkey boy phenomenon i recommend paying a visit to that website of paper thin rhetoric http://slate.msn.com/ where the vitrolic monkey boys bare their teeth and fling their shit at those '..fucking fags...') because monkey man george and his old white monkey boys network have conjured effective cold war propaganda tactics to keep the cold war burning for another fifty years and more:

...but alas i am here to say kudos imomus for this journal entry: five months ago my wife and our now 20 month old daughter chiyoni decided to re-locate to montreal quebec where we don't speak french hardly but we are connected to ourselves more now than our years living in the states as we both have found montreal quebec to offer us the living lab to construct our cut-and-pastings to feed our spirit and to feed our minds:

while the monkey boys beat their chest and proclaim victory over those 'fucking faggots...' the wounds now become cancerous as the already dead body of america becomes the sort of parasitic viral zombie that can be observed in a simple game of resident evil ---

zombies led by the grandest zombie of them all:

tally-ho america -- you have chosen your destiny.

thanks for the journal entry imomus.