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Obamaroll’d

The fact that American citizens actually managed to get over their paranoia, their racial misconfiguration and their apparent fright of actual change and elect Barack Hussein Obama as their next president was very reassuring. I live in Norway but the times have shown that America has more influence on us Europeans than we would like to accept. The latest economic crisis is just a new layer of topping on the cake, but I never doubted that a McCain administration would’ve been able to top the last eight years of unbelievable stupidity emanated from the Bush administration.

I might seem like a hater when it comes to the U.S, but I am not. I like the country but I dislike what its people do to it and each other. I dislike patriotism when it’s all about creating mass hysteria without a sliver of truth to it. Continue reading ‘Obamaroll’d’

What if…

… we started enjoying – and finding value in – everything, ridding ourselves of the concepts of like and dislike? Would the human race be able to handle this as a collective intelligence, when duality seems to be such a fundamental building block in our personal and social lives?

What if…

… the cat on my couch is actually more intelligent than myself. After all, his life seems so much more relaxed and balanced.

What if…

… we stopped treating animals worse than we treat each other; after all, animals don’t tend to produce weapons of mass destruction.

What if…

… we just let global warming run its course and not fuss so much about the environment? The best lessons are those we learn from our mistakes, after all.