(*digression: I am also considering a way to eliminate the 3 flies that have been hovering above the keyboard for the last 3 days, buzzing, and squatting, uninvited, on my hands.)
So, you may not want to indulge my paranoias too much by sending me this type of stuff. It will get my brain-juices flowing, with all of its consequences (namely, annoying rants).
And another interesting one, by a Spanish nun & expert in the field.. (For some reason, nuns always do seem to be rather sensible & credible sources :-))
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No, it is foolish, really. I sat through these videos, and subsequently felt the urge to warn everyone I know by posting this entry, among other things.
(Regardless of Daniel´s skepticism) I mean, my husband does his part.... he tries to put things in perspective for me (when I seem incapable of rational thought), but I can´t help but buy into conspiracy-theories.
So, you were expecting another story about Pacifier-weaning, or some anecdote that is only really interesting to mothers, and you get THIS! *consider yourselves lucky not to be married to me: Daniel is a VERY patient guy & he has so much of this to put up with. And then he has the lovely task of trying to redirect my focus. so, while you can just click this tedious mess away, he gets the whole speech when he comes home from work..... or, worse, over the phone while on a break from work!
First, I felt the Swine-Flu fear incited by the media. I was all, "I need to get myself a mask, find a cave or something for quarantine....NOW!" Then, we presumably got the wretched flu (though untested), I wore the mask for 10 hours, and recovered, sort of. We´re all still coughing, but it has all been unexpectedly mild.
Then (this morning), I heard the other side of the story, and felt alarm of another kind. Alarm on a greater scale. If it were just a bunch of crazy hippies, maybe I´d be more reluctant to accept their theories; but here you´ve got educated people.... explaining with great detail that there is much to fear. Corruption and Bio-terrorism. The creepy stuff that you see in those futuristic movies (think Clive Owen in "Children of Men", for instance, or that one about the punks in some abandoned part of Scotland)... Get the picture? Those movies that disturb you for an hour and a half..... but then you remind yourself that this is not the future, that all of that sensationalism is out of place, at least, for now.
And I remembered the Louis Theroux episode about the Survivalists... a group of crazies somewhere up in Idaho (the "safest" part of the world, apparently), who are quite convinced that the New World Order is imminent.... and they´re prepared to defend themselves, and they´re not looking for trouble, just staying alert.
I might be laughing when I watch those interviews, but, secretly, I understand them. And I think, for just a little while, that maybe the rest of us are really crazy, for not going underground ourselves.
So, what do you (sensible ones!) think of it??? Is it time for a non-violent revolution??
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