Muddled Aged
Meanwhile, back in the great state of Loo-zi-ana, New World Order 2.0 marches on. The state of wise cracking, backslapping backroom dealin' politicos has just elected a somewhat shady, conservative young turk governor who is the son of Hindu immigrants. Louisiana has had as governors its Huey, its Buddy, and its Jimmy and now along comes Piyush. Somewhat shady and conservative is no surprise.
Hindu once removed is curious. I mean, we're talkin' Louisiana folks.
This feller is versed on Looziana politics. He made sure to add in quotes his self prescribed Brady Bunch nickname "Bobby". Like Barrack Obama, he has distanced himself from his father's faith and embraced Jebus.
What I want to know is who voted for him? A whole lotta people apparently. And when we're talkin' conservative in Louisiana we're talking mostly about Bubba. Bubba? Yes, Bubba! Bubba is, except for his neck, lily white; his neck is Workman Red (not listed with Crayola, I checked)
Bubba doesn't do brown. Bubba doesn't do black. Bubba doesn't do anything other than those who sort of look like Bubba (that's why Clinton took Louisiana even though Bubba is one of those pry-my-handgun-from-my-cold-dead-fingers conservative).
Piyush or "Bobby" is brown. He even went to Brown. He also studied at Oxford. Bubba knows Oxford. He can find Oxford on a map of Mississippi.
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that a lapsed Hindu cum born again Catholic named Piyush "Bobby" is the guvneh of the (as Liz says) "Gre't St'et" of Loo-zi-ana.. He does have impressive academic and professional CVs. But, c'mon, this is Louisiana we're talking about! The state I left ten years or so ago came pretty close to electing as governor a Neo-Nazi bookstore owner who'd been kicked out of the KKK for being too much a right wing nut job. This is Loo-zi-ana. Huey Long's Loo-zi-ana. Where four term governor Edwin Edwards used to boast that, although he'd been indicted on several occasions, he'd never been convicted, and that the only way he'd lose an election was if he were to be caught in bed with a dead hooker or a live boy (in the end he did go down, pulling a ten-year stretch in prison for, among other things, accepting a suitcase full of money to grant a land-based casino license).
Loo-zi-ana politics has always had its own rubrics for measuring corruption, standards which are set far outside the pale of what would be considered corruption in other states. Questionable lapses in morals, suspicions of graft, public servants being bribed were not seen in the Louisiana I remember as anything other than politics as usual or just taking orders. In 1989 it was either vote for the Nazi or vote for the crook--we had no other choice! What's most puzzling to me is that a lot of that Nazi vote seems to have voted for the son of Hindus. George freaking Harrison was a Hindu for Krishna's sake.
I have lived and I know that I have lived a long time. I have witnessed the dismantling of the foundations upon which white guy western civilization has long depended upon. We now live in a time when the constants of our Euro-centric history are not lost in New World Order 2.0 waiting for a re-renaissance, they are simply neither here nor there. NWO 2.0 is the Renaissance--go back 2,500 years and see how white folks were scraping by and see what the brown and yellow folks were up to. For now, and perhaps for the next couple millenia, it just might be our turn to observe and learn.
And you know, it's exactly what I had hoped the future would bring when I was an angry young man--well maybe not exactly. My angry young man's brave new world would have appointed the MC5 to the Supreme Court. Still, what we have with the browning and the yellowing of America is unstoppable since its global, and one just has to look at worldwide demographics to see why this is a no brainer. This is not the fashion. It is the trend.
Is this for me a classic example of "careful what you wish for?" AYM has in Barrack Obama and Piyush Jindal what he would see as the breaking of the ground for a new foundation; that this isn't just a hiccup in history but the wave of the future.
Now.
Looking back, however, I see not only that I was an angry young man but a misinformed (or under-informed) unripened and unseasoned angry young man, wrong about so many other things--maybe I was wrong about wanting to see this dying of a breed (my breed). I mean, because of AYM, being A. and Y. and possibly due to his being a man, he now lives in a constant state of mea culpas, existing in a middle aged life that strives to make amends for the wreckage of that angry young man's misguided decisions and unforgiving past.
That's me. That's you. That's us. That's life.
A.Y.M would probably have voted for Piyush simply because Piyush isn't a good ol' boy, isn't Euro-centric, despite his own Michael Jackson-like attempt to scour the brown of his skin by calling himself "Bobby" and claiming to be a huge fan of Baby Jesus.
Not-so-angry muddled aged guy did not have vote for "Bobby" simply because N.S.A.M.A.O.G is technically no longer a resident of Loo-zi-ana since his driver's license expired. (Woe to the man who claim no country--Nietzche)
I would hope that he probably still believes in his parents' and grandparents' and great-grandparents' etc. Karma and Dharma and Vishnu and Durga (but that he keeps it under his shirt) because that is who he is. So what if he is anti-choice and pro-a handgun-in-every-cupboard when it's the feds who control this stuff anyway?
My main concern is that when I am finished working here, and when and if I wish to return there, that there will be a there worth returning to.
New Orleans is still a broken wasteland. Piyush had better get hopping on fixing it.
I'm going to take a wait and see approach, which is a sure sign that I should have regular prostate check-ups and accept the graying of the hairs.
Hindu once removed is curious. I mean, we're talkin' Louisiana folks.
This feller is versed on Looziana politics. He made sure to add in quotes his self prescribed Brady Bunch nickname "Bobby". Like Barrack Obama, he has distanced himself from his father's faith and embraced Jebus.
What I want to know is who voted for him? A whole lotta people apparently. And when we're talkin' conservative in Louisiana we're talking mostly about Bubba. Bubba? Yes, Bubba! Bubba is, except for his neck, lily white; his neck is Workman Red (not listed with Crayola, I checked)
Bubba doesn't do brown. Bubba doesn't do black. Bubba doesn't do anything other than those who sort of look like Bubba (that's why Clinton took Louisiana even though Bubba is one of those pry-my-handgun-from-my-cold-dead-fingers conservative).
Piyush or "Bobby" is brown. He even went to Brown. He also studied at Oxford. Bubba knows Oxford. He can find Oxford on a map of Mississippi.
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that a lapsed Hindu cum born again Catholic named Piyush "Bobby" is the guvneh of the (as Liz says) "Gre't St'et" of Loo-zi-ana.. He does have impressive academic and professional CVs. But, c'mon, this is Louisiana we're talking about! The state I left ten years or so ago came pretty close to electing as governor a Neo-Nazi bookstore owner who'd been kicked out of the KKK for being too much a right wing nut job. This is Loo-zi-ana. Huey Long's Loo-zi-ana. Where four term governor Edwin Edwards used to boast that, although he'd been indicted on several occasions, he'd never been convicted, and that the only way he'd lose an election was if he were to be caught in bed with a dead hooker or a live boy (in the end he did go down, pulling a ten-year stretch in prison for, among other things, accepting a suitcase full of money to grant a land-based casino license).
Loo-zi-ana politics has always had its own rubrics for measuring corruption, standards which are set far outside the pale of what would be considered corruption in other states. Questionable lapses in morals, suspicions of graft, public servants being bribed were not seen in the Louisiana I remember as anything other than politics as usual or just taking orders. In 1989 it was either vote for the Nazi or vote for the crook--we had no other choice! What's most puzzling to me is that a lot of that Nazi vote seems to have voted for the son of Hindus. George freaking Harrison was a Hindu for Krishna's sake.
I have lived and I know that I have lived a long time. I have witnessed the dismantling of the foundations upon which white guy western civilization has long depended upon. We now live in a time when the constants of our Euro-centric history are not lost in New World Order 2.0 waiting for a re-renaissance, they are simply neither here nor there. NWO 2.0 is the Renaissance--go back 2,500 years and see how white folks were scraping by and see what the brown and yellow folks were up to. For now, and perhaps for the next couple millenia, it just might be our turn to observe and learn.
And you know, it's exactly what I had hoped the future would bring when I was an angry young man--well maybe not exactly. My angry young man's brave new world would have appointed the MC5 to the Supreme Court. Still, what we have with the browning and the yellowing of America is unstoppable since its global, and one just has to look at worldwide demographics to see why this is a no brainer. This is not the fashion. It is the trend.
Is this for me a classic example of "careful what you wish for?" AYM has in Barrack Obama and Piyush Jindal what he would see as the breaking of the ground for a new foundation; that this isn't just a hiccup in history but the wave of the future.
Now.
Looking back, however, I see not only that I was an angry young man but a misinformed (or under-informed) unripened and unseasoned angry young man, wrong about so many other things--maybe I was wrong about wanting to see this dying of a breed (my breed). I mean, because of AYM, being A. and Y. and possibly due to his being a man, he now lives in a constant state of mea culpas, existing in a middle aged life that strives to make amends for the wreckage of that angry young man's misguided decisions and unforgiving past.
That's me. That's you. That's us. That's life.
A.Y.M would probably have voted for Piyush simply because Piyush isn't a good ol' boy, isn't Euro-centric, despite his own Michael Jackson-like attempt to scour the brown of his skin by calling himself "Bobby" and claiming to be a huge fan of Baby Jesus.
Not-so-angry muddled aged guy did not have vote for "Bobby" simply because N.S.A.M.A.O.G is technically no longer a resident of Loo-zi-ana since his driver's license expired. (Woe to the man who claim no country--Nietzche)
I would hope that he probably still believes in his parents' and grandparents' and great-grandparents' etc. Karma and Dharma and Vishnu and Durga (but that he keeps it under his shirt) because that is who he is. So what if he is anti-choice and pro-a handgun-in-every-cupboard when it's the feds who control this stuff anyway?
My main concern is that when I am finished working here, and when and if I wish to return there, that there will be a there worth returning to.
New Orleans is still a broken wasteland. Piyush had better get hopping on fixing it.
I'm going to take a wait and see approach, which is a sure sign that I should have regular prostate check-ups and accept the graying of the hairs.
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Who voted for Piyush? I have no idea. I can only say that it wasn't me or anyone I know. But then again, I don't really know too many people outside of the Isle of Orleans.
So if it wasn't you or anyone you know, that probably includes my ilk and many people I used to know seeing as we sort of run in the same circles. That leaves then ass-a-holic alkie redneck Rush Limbaughites (like my brothers-in-law) and THAT just doesn't make sense--rednecks electing a lapsed Hindu guvneh doesn't add up. Is this the age of the Kali Yuga, which in (relevent) Hindu eschatolgy is the age of the end times?
3:13 PM
It's not who they elected, it's who elected him and what the hell were they thinking and how the hell could you ever socialize or fraternize or neighborize with folks with that kind of thinking process?
This is my complaint with a whole LOT of elections.
As an odd side note - so far, it never occurred to me that you'd return stateside.
I'm pretty adaptable, but I still haven't adapted. So naturally, I can't imagine any one else doing it easily. Or rather, wanting to go through it. For what?
New Orleans used to be a great city--with its population cut in half, it may now only qualify as a town. Town or city, it always had for me the feeling of a village, a big, North-western tropical, Caribbean village. It's first European immigrants weren't so much settlers as in the N.E. U.S. Pilgrim sense, but exiled/immigrants/ex-con/misfits in the Australian sense. Before the flood, I entertained returning there as an exile misfit transplant. But now? Eh. I'll settle for Bamboo walls and tin roofs.
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