Union decline and " political correctness "

         There is a myth that the news media is imbued with left-wing

    prejudice. But why should the billionaire owners of newspapers,

    magazines, radio and TV stations leave the management of these

    powerful voices of " public opinion " to " dizzy leftists " ?

              How rarely does the public get a WORKING CLASS slant

    on the news ! It is hardly an exaggeration to say that most

    newspapers editors  have one purpose in life : to stifle a little

    thing called  CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS. For years now the phony academic

    Left have tried to substitute an innocuous mindset called


    " political correctness " - that DIVIDES the masses into small

    minded, self-centered, mutually  antagonistic groups that blind

    themselves to the really dominant forces in human social life.

               If the politically correct Left had Marxist backbones -

    and had great influence on the news media, then why has union

    membership declined here in the United States - the land of the FREE-

    to a miserable 9 percent of the work-force ?

              For almost a generation rather ludicrous race, gender,

    ethnic conflict has replaced  solid, rational CLASS STRUGGLE.

                 And clearly just about all the worlds major religions

    prefer crackpot mysticism to anything as subversive as  CLASS

    consciousness.

               The Islamic crackpots crash airplanes into tall office

    buildings - killing thousands of infidels - in the name of Allah.

    Jewish crackpots arrogantly build settlements on disputed land -

    with the delusion that THEY are the CHOSEN PEOPLE . The Catholic

    Pope has one relentless message to the destitute of the earth :

    KEEP THE BAMBINOS COMING !

                Our pious president, George W. Bush, wants to  wage

    war against Iraq - unprovoked and in contempt of Allied opinion -

    to the tune of " Onward Christian Soldiers ".

                  Is  Russia really better off as a capitalist society ?

     Gangster capitalism has ruined the former Soviet Union -possibly

    for centuries. Wasn't dialectic materialism easier to put up with

    than mass drunkenness and Scientology ?  Under the planned economy,

    the average Russian citizen could at least hope to reach age 65.

               The collapse of the Soviet Union was brainlessly

    misinterpreted by bourgeois ideologists as the vindication of

    a ruthless, reckless, soul-destroying, global capitalism.

              Whada ya mean: " workers of the world unite " ?

         Happy Labor Day !  Now you working class people have

    nothing to lose but your lottery tickets. Happily you got

    your Budweiser back - thanks to those damned Teamsters.

Winning line for next Mayor?

From my humble friend Mike, living on social security

    disability : " I think a guy could get himself elected Mayor just

    by saying again and again : " If I'm elected, I'll have real, live

    human beings in City Hall to answer your phone calls.

              Losing line from would be Mayor of Cranston : " If I'm

    elected I'll treat your tax money as if it were my very own "

           Really ? Couldn't  " Buddy " do as much for us ?

Keep it the Hoover Building !

Don't even think of changing the name of the FBI Building -now

named after J. Edgar Hoover. If you do, the ghost of J. Edgar will

haunt it forever. If thy guy made it to Heaven, we must assume that

he is doing up there what he did best down here, keeping records

of people " of interest " who he knew in his All-American heart

were dirty,rotten, scoundrels.

More seriously I resent this RECONSTRUCTION and DECONSTRUCTION

of history -and I am way out on the political left. The present

generation has no CIVIL RIGHT to arrogantly erase the judgment

of the Greatest Generation -or any past generation.

Our "political correctness " has its good points, but it

may well be ridiculed by future , more sagacious TV journalists.

We cannot just change the names of buildings and places

in accordance with ephemeral public opinion.

A newly discovered ancient manuscript might reveal

the historical authenticity of Romulus - founder of Rome.

Should THE CITY be named after a guy who killed his own

brother ? And whose mother was just an Etruscan whore

nicknamed the " She-Wolf " ?

JFK was a playboy. So rename Kennedy Plaza in Providence,

Rhode Island after the present House Speaker, John Harwood -

who will soon be vindicated , I am sure.

Only J. Edgar knows for sure. He's STILL making a

list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or

nice !

Accurate profile of child molesters ?

The NEWS always focuses on the sensational. In a nation of

many millions, it is a statistical certainty that there will be

shocking murders every day, that there will be a few hundred

dangerous child molesters out there.

I think that it would make more sense - since Sept.11 -

to try to PROFILE potential terrorists than to waste valuable

newspaper space " profiling " the typical child molester.

Today I learn that he is likely to be a HE, that he

is a seedy, lonely, eccentric loser. With this information

we can round up all the suspects now and confine them to

a rather large state !

Anyway the PROFILE reminded me of a description of

a few dozen men arrested on the West side of Providence for

seeking the services of prostitutes. A police sting operation

that is routine here around election time.

Question : Do lonely, eccentric, unprepossessing

males have a natural right to some sexual satisfaction now

and then ? I suspect that there would be less sex crimes-

even against children - if prostitution were legalized but

kept off the streets -and monitored by the public health

departments.

Classy CALL GIRLS - with their affluent clients -

are less likely to interest the LAW than shabby street

prostitutes - with their seedy, " loser " johns.

The lonely seedy loser males get their names

published in the newspaper -making their wretched lives

more wretched. A guy I knew - who fits the description-

drowned himself in the Providence River...but first put

on his blue dress suit. He was my neighbor in a South

Providence rooming house. Always cooking me spaghetti

and showing me his latest pornographic magazines. " Ray "

was a vigorous 64 years before Viagra.

A thought on the psychology of the male child

molester: Being a case of arrested development himself, he

can can quickly sniff out a lonely child, desperate for

adult attention. A lonely kid can be mesmerized by ANY

adult that pays attention to him or her, even a seedy, eccentric,

pervert.

And the pop psychologists interviewed in the media

don't dare to acknowledge Dr. Sigmund Freud 's discoveries

about childhood sexuality made more than a century ago:

... ( article on Freud by Mia Taormina )... " it is ludicrous

to think that children only SUDDENLY acquire sexuality

between the ages of twelve and fourteen ".

A pioneer in the study of human sexuality was one

Wilhelm Reich - a bit of a flake ,to be sure. Nevertheless

at age 4 he " overhears and observes housemaid and coachman

during their sexual act. Reich remembers that this causes

erotic sensations of great intensity. "( www.orgone.org )

Reich was loathed by the puritanical bourgeois

establishment for advocating the sexual rights of adolescents.

My personal opinion here: I prefer the ancient

Roman Stoic philosophy - sex is not naughty but it can

ruin the mind. And sexual obsession - and our society is

sexually obsessed - can corrupt the soul.

When you are not horny, you easily perceive that

most pornography is RIDICULOUS - and very bad ART !

Advice for the sexually tormented: GET A LIFE

- or move to Nevada.