Best Forgotten by the Mekong
[Pakse, 8/15/23]
After I posted a photo on 8/15/23, a reader commented, “MTV, Kurt Cobain, Mickey Mouse, plus an obese kid probably due to junk food: All-American cultural icons and values in a place decimated by American bombs, the most bombed place in the world... and the killing continues.”
Although there are no American fast-food joints in provincial Pakse, fried chicken and french fries, cooked in much recycled vegetable oil, are available, and, until two months ago, there was a Daily Donuts, a Thai chain. There are also weird pizzas with squirted mayonnaise, and a Korean corn dog stand.
The sow faced girl with a lardy neck may have come from somewhere else. The photo was taken at dusk on the bank of the Mekong. Most of the Laos enjoying the river view, breeze and evening coolness were not so branded by America. Still, that virus is spreading.
In Thailand and Laos, talismans are often placed over entrances to ward off evil spirits. Mirrors serve the same purpose. Seeing their own reflections, demons flee, you see? In Pakse, these mirrors tend to be convex, with some huge, especially if the house is at a three-way intersection. At the receiving end of so much unknown traffic, you need extra protection.
For Laos and others, wearing English on their clothing is the newest superstition. Since Uncle Sam is essentially Superman, you partake of his protection and otherworldly power by having his language on your person. A long while ago, dude even went to the moon and back!
At the Smithsonian, there’s a tin foil wrapped moon lander with no fuel tank to lift it back into space. America was so advanced.
About to eat egg noodles with duck, a boy has “BREAD” on his chest. Strutting into a hip cafe, a cuntsure lovely wears a faded jean jacket with, “TODAY IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO LEAVE ME ALONE.” Selling firewood, a dark man who might just be illiterate is wrapped in this hoodie, “I [heart shape] MY BOYFRIEND.”
Though I’ve repeatedly stressed Laos’ relative immunity from America’s elaborate set of diseases, it’s still infected.
Al DuClur, an American living in Thailand, concurs:
Enjoy Laos while you can because if Thailand is an example of the Asian future things will become far more corrupted.
Not only was the top candidate in the last election a US stooge, most young Thais I meet want Thailand to become a US protectorate so they can have freedom of speech, end corruption and have good paying jobs. That is quite a change from Thais priding themselves on never being a colony. Teenage Thais are starting to listen to Thai rap filled with constant chants of f&ck.
Reality is that as long as countries allow Jewish social media companies free reign in their countries, the American Empire will be able to hijack their culture.
Unfortunately few countries understand the threat of social media. This is probably the result of most leaders coming of age before social media. They would never allow a foreign tribe to take over all their mainstream media but the leaders' wives and kids like to post selfies on social media so they don’t see enough harm from sm to upset their families.
To spare the rest of the world further damage, America must implode as quickly as possible.
While waiting, we can look to Africa for inspiration. Before Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali rejected Western meddling into their internal affairs, which includes the garrisoning of Western troops, a total outrage, black Africans had already said no to Jewjabs, and they have been totally indifferent to the West’s massive propaganda against Putin and Russia.
Living in Windhoek, Namibia for five months, I passed nearly every day huge posters of Putin put up by a Serb immigrant. Namibians were fine with that. Outside the brainwashed West, there’s no Russophobia.
[Windhoek, Namibia on 3/1/22]
When Dmitry Bivol fought Canelo Alvarez in Vegas, Bivol was not allowed to have the Russian flag carried into the ring, or have this flag on his trunks. America has become so small minded and shameless.
When black Africans compare Putin to Biden, Macron, Scholz, Trudeau, Sunak or Zelensky, etc., they can clearly see who’s the clown.
The West’s worship of cross-dressing freaks also reveals its insanity and degeneracy. North America minus Mexico and Europe have become the darkest continents. Nothing is darker than mass suicide, but they’re doing it quite casually, when not gleefully.
Jewjerked, Ukraine is also killing itself, with its young men sacrificed, and many of the rest fleeing. On 4/5/22, Zelensky raised eyebrows when he declared that Ukraine “will definitely become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face. We will not be surprised that we will have representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in all institutions, supermarkets, cinemas, there will be people with weapons. I am sure that our security issue will be number one in the next ten years.”
Like the US, then, it will be a country perpetually at war, voluntarily. Unlike the US, though, it doesn’t have a vast pool of genderqueer to feed into the transfat grinder, so it’s already fucked.
In incinerated Lahaina, Maui, realtors have already swooped in. In Ukraine, Black Rock and JPMorgan have set up a “reconstruction bank” to lure foreign investors. Sex tourists and cradle raiders are also impatient for Putin to cut it out. Tired of being surrounded by Arabs, Israelis can recover Khazaria. Everything is going so well.
Far away from all that, I should just take it easy.
A few days ago, a Saigon friend emailed to say she’ll be in Vung Tau at the end of the month. Visiting the poet Nguyen Quoc Chanh, she’ll bring a plate of cheeses and cold cuts. “Come back soon and drink with us,” she urged.
Mellow and complacent, I feel no urgency to go anywhere. Laos soothes the soul. For centuries, it has lagged behind, and that, paradoxically, is its salvation. In two hours, it will be cool enough to stroll along the Mekong. I’ll swim with that crowd.
Even in the dumbest T-shirts, Laos are lovely, for they’re relaxed. Unlike some people, they’re not trying to prove anything.
[Pakse, 8/15/23]
[Pakse, 8/17/23]
[Vientiane, 5/31/23]
I have a little bit of an issue with some of your analysis of common/poor folk living in the U$A.
Are they brainwashed? I’d say yes, for the most part.
But, look at where they were reared.
Let’s talk “black”, for a minute, shall we. I’ve been horribly assaulted by black men on two occasions, so I come from that perspective.
I know that these man-child(s) have become savages, but I am equally confident that they were not born that way.
I’ve been to the ghetto, the “projects”, and I’ve seen how these people live. Rare is the child, that can emerge from that hellscape, without being damaged, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. I’m not even going to broach the ongoing injustice that that group of american society has been subjected to, I’m just going to stay in the here and now.
Do black engage in more “crime” than other ethnicities? Probably. But, who decides what constitutes a punishable offense? That would by whitey not on the moon, of course. And, crime in the U$A is determined by class, not by specific behavior.
George Floyd was executed for trying to pass a “bad twenty”. Sam Bankman-Fried, of crypto fame? No charges.
I would expect people, blacks included, to rob, steal, fleece, whatever it takes to feed their children, and themselves. I don’t expect them to just lay down and die.
Is the U$A a shit show? Absolutely. But, these infants, now adults, were raised in a toxic environment, and these are the deformed human beings that this dishonest, vile system has wrought. Linh, it’s kinda like blaming the malformed children of Vietnam, Laos, etc, for not resisting agent orange, or depleted uranium, and growing proper limbs. The children here have been poisoned in another way, since before infancy.
I detect a bit of a mocking tone towards dumbed down, dumb dumb Americans, in some of your work/words.
I can’t help but observe that you left the U$A, after taking up residence here. Did you depart willingly/gladly? Or, did the nightmare of america drive you out? Couldn’t cut it? Too difficult of an existence?
There’s a lot of folks in the U$A who would love to pack up, and pick up and leave, but see no way out. For some it’s blindness, but for many they’re in a trap. A bind.
Now, I can understand being wary of black people, in the U$A. I am. I was damaged permanently (physically) by a couple of them. But, with help from sound minds, I have been able to grasp a little empathy for what black lives in the U$A have been like. And, it ain’t pretty.
I happy for you that you have escaped the home of leviathan, and found your way to a place that isn’t as poisoned with U$A culture?. Culture. lol. Unfortunately, it’s been intermittently poisoned with U$A chemicals, weapons, and that can-do, capitalist spirit.
I enjoy the things that you have to say, almost universally, and I am not mocking your perspective. Just offering another one. Mine.
I’m “raking in” a little over $2,000 a month as a retiree, here in the land of milk and money, with a modest house to sell, and a few “toys” which will garner me a few more shekels. And, like you, I hope to make the great escape from the late great police state, america. If I’m fortunate, I will meet you out there someday, and get an education about the local flavor. So, take care of yourself, old timer, and maybe we can frolic a little, and have some laughs at merica’s expense, in the future. Keep on keepin’ on, brother.
"The West's worship of crossdressing freaks also reveals its insanity and degeneracy."
The American establishment has learned the age old "divide and conquer" strategy very well. Anything that promotes divisiveness and contention among the working class peons is promoted. Among the latest crazes is the transgender fad. Few things provoke disgust among conservative Americans like this public freak show apparently facilitated by advances in medical surgery and hormone treatment.
And the establishment loves it. They know Americans will overlook Wall Street criminality when they're obsessed with knowing whether so and so is really a woman or a former man changed into a woman.
Why pay attention to the Federal income tax code riddled with loop-holes for the rich when some clownish guy dressed as a woman is shilling for Bud Light?
Working class Americans are more suspicious of their equally downtrodden, beleaguered neighbor who might have a slightly more expensive car (bought on consignment) than they are of the multi-billionaires who pay their workers minimum wage and who, upon being hired are given Food Stamp applications because the employer (Walmart) refuses to pay them enough to eat.
And this is exactly the way the system (in America) is supposed to work. Pay no attention to Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates (who's real skill seemed to be in misappropriating other's software). Just snear at your neighbor who -- God forbid -- might be getting a little more than you in a society in which you both have essentially nothing. Divide and Conquer. The economic system is great, folks. But your neighbor might be stealing from you so you'd better watch out....
Why go to South East Asia when you can go to Disney World?! Just make sure you wear your mask and have proof of all your Covid booster shots! You wouldn't want to give Covid to Mickey (or your grandma) would you?