HA! My dad's more equal than your dad!

Something quite recent and moreover, quite specific, took my attention. And it was this event. No, it's not porn, though I'm sure you'd prefer it was. Luckily, you don't have to read all of it to know what it's about.

Basically, a child was thrown out of school because he/she had two mothers -- a lesbian (the cooler word for female gay) couple.

Not only is this madness, the fact that it has any supporters is even worse. There are actually people who stand behind this man and basically say, "Yes, a child shouldn't be allowed to study in a school because of its origins." Didn't we get past this in the last century?

Here we are, being told by very intelligent men that without God to judge what is moral and what is not /the top link to the left -- the issue is raised in the debate/, there is no morality -- and at the same time, God's representatives commit such discrimination. How can anybody consider this behavior moral, or even more -- example-worthy?

This is some special kind of bullshit -- all men are equal before God... except the homos. Not only will the homos burn in the eternal pit of fire, but also their children, because I quote the Archdiocese of Denver:

Parents living in open discord with Catholic teaching in areas of faith and morals unfortunately choose by their actions to disqualify their children

After all, if a child can't get into a Catholic school because of its parents, what's the chance for the child to be on equal footage with the rest of the world in other cases?

This is children we're talking about. Little children -- preschoolers. And they're being taught, not by someone random, but by Archdioceses, to discriminate. Because the school sets an example for the other children as well -- "Look down on those that are different, children -- they don't deserve to study not because of something else, but because of their origins."

Not only that, it's also hypocritical -- why don't they ban children who are parented by single moms or single dads?

What about children born by a couple who uses condoms at all? After all, the Pope said getting AIDS is better than using a condom.

Jesus.

XX century

The 20th century.

Probably the historians' favorite century of all time.

Two world wars, one Cold, several wars in the Middle East, a couple in the Far East.

The boom of technology.

Also, the devaluation of ... well, values. The fall of morality, they say.

But you know, I find this very weird.

The biggest failure of humankind in the XX century was listening to rock music and wearing some clothes that reveal more than your eyes. It wasn't the continuation of wars that were meant to 'save' people from their ideas and ideals, no. The biggest failure was the rock and roll style.

This is something that absolutely eludes my mind. We say that we should be moral and ethical, and tolerant, and whatever, now, in the XXI century, but just look at the way we comment the XX century.

For the XX century, we say that the good stuff is the technological progress and we stop here. Then, we start criticizing the way that girls dress since the 1920s. We do not say anything about the big problems and we do not say any more good stuff. As if nothing good happened other than creating the TV. As if sexism and racism weren't first addressed back then. As if the colonies didn't gain their freedom then. As if the United Nations weren't created then. As if the European Union wasn't created then.

We simply do not mention those. As if the good stuff happened only in the past 9 years of the XXI century, the wars were apparently in the XIXth /they're never mentioned in the comments about the XXth, so logically, they didn't happen then/ and the only problem about the XX was the fact that people wanted to live the way they want, not the way their parents imagined.

But no, morality fell during XX century, we all know that. Society fell. People went from good to bad, because suddenly, they didn't pick the same clothing /and we all know that anything new should be stoned to death/. Before that, the People didn't steal, kill, burn, pillage others and they did not sell themselves for money. That happened only in the period from 1901 'till 2000.

"But there are more criminals nowadays! XX century is rotten!"

Yeah, but there are more people too. 5,6 billion people during the century. Naturally, there'd be more thieves.

If you ask me, XX century is an awesome period of time to have lived through. If we've evolved, it's been at that point. Not by much, but at least a bit. Yes, we continue proving the saying 'the pen is sharper than the sword' wrong, but at least we've agreed to let black men and women vote.

If you ask me, all that constant whining about morality falling, about society crumbling and all that was just a simple, "You don't do what I tell you anymore!"

Well, no, I don't. It's odd, yes, but I have these thoughts, you see, these ideas, these dreams of a life that I can call mine, and not yours.

FYI

This post is intended for Bulgarians /people who understand Bulgarian language (yes, those two are equivalent), so it will be, naturally, in Bulgarian.

Местя всякакви бъдещи киберглупости на български /английският си седи тук/ в друг сайт. Старите на бг остават тук също.

Другият сайт е с глупавото име otkrovenia.com /да, предполага се да ви прати на главната страница, а не на акаунта ми директно/. Забутан, но това му е хубавото -- приятно място за криене, за експерименти и за спокойствие е.

Послепис: Това е най-краткият пост, който някога ще видиш от мен. Приеми го като подарък.

Politically correct..

Censure.

Censure, but not that of information, the one about which everybody talks, not the one that all hell is usually raised because of, no...

Censure of the words. The so-called politically-correct language.



In those two words, I find a very special definition of bullshit. A very true one, too.

Like all horrifying things that twist and turn your world into a less emotional, more rational and definitely more boring in the mind-and-heart-freezing way, it started at its core from a very good idea.

They say language has power. A big lot of power. And before, when we used to suit our language for the discrimination, some words really needed polishing. However, as with all good ideas, we've successfully managed to turn them into complete and utterly useless junk. From the idea for a non-offensive society language, we've reached the opposite -- a society in which every second word is offensive.

Of course, nobody made the effort to ask themselves if language has any power or not. It really doesn't. The words hurt more than stones? That's something one should believe in only at the age of 3. Because the words hurt more than stones only if the stones are very small and if you really take the words seriously.

What I'm trying to say is -- language has as much power, as you put in it. You can just ignore it or you can give it the full might to make one entire nation sacrifice its men and children for some distant tyrant's goals. Whereas you can't just say 'no' to a flying stone at your face, you can easily say that to anybody's statement. But in any case, you make the choice to give language power, no matter if it's knowingly or not.

In these last years, we have given it so much power. Suddenly, half of the words we can use are incorrect. Why? Because somebody might get offended, they say. And since something is announced 'offensive', then people really do get offended.

It has reached the point where we can't call the world for what it really is. We can't face it. We hide behind all those polite and easy words, as if the truth is not there if we just ignore it. The latter tactic seems to be working perfectly for many politicians, yes, but I doubt it's the same with life.

Every condition or discrimination has now a polite word about it, because the other one is offensive. Has anybody even asked why is it offensive? No. Or if they have, they've probably been shot for giving voice to reason.

Words like "black" /which isn't offensive, but is replaced by African American/ are not offensive; why create a word like "Chicano", when you could simply call the person by their (notice the PC here) nationality /chicano is used as a PC synonym of the longer word Mexican American/?

Quoting:

Guys: Very controversial. Used, especially in the Midwest, when referring to a group of people. “In Chicago that word gets used a lot,” says Hill. And Baim says, “I use it all of the time.” Some feminists, like Andi Zeisler, the editor of Bitch, find “guys” problematic.

Some of them were/are offensive, indeed, but 90% -- not quite, as you can see. People didn't even suspect they could be offensive, why would they? If there are 5 boys and 5 girls and somebody comes and starts off with, "guys," nobody would even think that could be offensive. But of course, when you hint them it could be...

I mean, imagine this situation. Let's say, a rock could speak. What would you call a rock? Yeah, that's right -- a rock. Then, some guy in an expensive outfit comes and says it's offensive to call a rock a rock, because it's discriminating. Rockism, they'd call it, and there'd be a lot of lawsuits to prove its existence.

Eventually, they'll call it "hard, possibly-sharp natural object" (HPSNO for short, if it follows GLBTQ2IA's example) and 'rock' would be filed under the 'bad' words.

At the same time, there's a very simple pattern that gets obvious. By now, the whole society is split up in different groups of people that get offended by different words. Before that, nobody got offended, because nobody considered the such-and-such words offensive, but now, it's different -- now, they're in their own cliques, defending themselves against the world of discrimination.

Some types of discrimination were never there before somebody deemed a word 'inappropriate'.

You know, for the most intelligent species on this world, we sure are pretty gullible. All it takes is to utter the word "discrimination", and we're ready to jump the defend-my-rights bandwagon.

P.S. Think the number of times I've used the words "offensive" and "discrimination" is close to infinity... or at least, trying to be.

Happy new year! Честита нова година :)

With the coming of 2010 also came a very forgotten thought in my head: new year's resolutions.

One of the reasons why I'm making this post now and not, let's say yesterday, nor earlier this morning, was the fact that, stupid as it may sound, new year's eve caught me by surprise resolution-wise.

And while I was trying to resurrect (was and still am) my numbened-by-last-night brain all day long, I actually decided to read. It did not kill me, yet, but it did make my head hurt in a very strange way. What I read was others' new year's resolutions. /Note here: no, still not turning this place into "Dear diary", but this should be somewhat relevant to the idea behind this post./

I thought about doing what I did two years ago: forgive everyone everything and start afresh. But then, I decided that a) I haven't got anything to forgive, because whatever it might have been, it's already forgotten and b) it is a very discrete way to also 'forgive', along with the bad things, the good ones too, at least to me. When I thought about my last "clean plate" resolution, I noticed how I've 'forgiven' everything, not just the irritating and annoying.

So I decided instead not to 'forgive' this time. Because 2009 was an incredible year. And forgetting that would be the most stupid thing I've done in a very long time. I will remember my last first day at school, I will remember all the people who helped me through a relatively-hard-for-my-lazy-head year. I will remember what I did well and what I didn't.

And since this sounds well and looks finished, I'll stop my post in English here and continue in Bulgarian. Despite the fact I feel myself more capable in English than in Bulgarian, symbols are symbols. And at least my second resolution should be in my native tongue.

Знаете ли кое е толкова хубаво на новата година? Не е само виното, нито другите видове алкохол, погълнат по случай началото й, но има и нещо специално.

Има нещо различно в тази атмосфера, нещо, което отличава нова година от, да кажем, националния празник, когато просто се извършва националния ритуал /ритуал -- вж. пие се много/. Краят на астрономическата година определено не е краят на работната сесия, не е и краят на зимата, но все пак нещо в хората им нашепва, че е някакъв край, а следователно -- и някакво начало.

А покрай думите 'начало' и 'край' хората се замислят. Въпреки че голяма част от хората през цялата година изобщо не са се замисляли за абсолютно нищо, точно в този ... период да го наречем, защото мисленето е очевидно прекъснато от празнуването, хората всъщност спират за малко и се замислят.

Веднъж в живота си, ние решаваме да мислим, да оценяваме себе си. Какво трябва да подобрим, какво трябва да променим, какво трябва да се стараем да запазим, всичко това минава през една глава, ако ще и за 1 минута да бъде.

А дори 1 минута размисъл за себе си е много и изключително ценна.

Това ми е другата резолюция -- резолюция за всеки ден от 2010, а ако може и след това. Да правя това, което се сещам само на нова година. Да отделя тази една минута.

Пожелавам го и на всички. Наред с щастието, късмета, успехите и новогодишното хапче за глава.