It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of the text, to the distortion of direct encounter with the human. Orientalism
me, personally
im tired of being okay with things im not okay with. the Congo Rainforest is being raped by sleazy companies and desperate bushmen California teachers marooned in parent's living rooms, the flag half-mast for a queen a queen in a nation of babbling democratic zealots; and it's funny, in that helpless sort of way. "sometimes …