Games Scumbags Play

IMHO, confusion (often induced by dishonest practitioners of rhetoric) occurs when the nature of a proposition is not carefully examined. At this juncture my puny mind can only think of four categories of propositions:

A proposition can be absolutely correct/true: pure water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at sea level.
A proposition is absolutely incorrect/wrong: like a salamander, a man's arm or leg can be amputated and in a due time a new limb will grow to replace the amputated one.
A proposition is universally true: raping and then murdering defenseless one's own children are morally repugnant, and the parent(s) who did that should be severely punished, if found to be of sound mind.
A proposition is relatively/privately/"conditionally" true:

-thin women with "good-looking facial features" are sexually desirable
-"God" is "great", "love", "all-knowing", "merciful", etc....
-poor people are lazy and/or stupid.

Humans are protean, endowed with free will, and not quite subject to "behaviorism". Thus, most propositions/statements about humans should be taken as having only relative/private/conditional values. What is true/meaningful/applicable to one human or a group of humans may be not true and meaningful to others. That is something stupid religious and political zealots fail to realize.

Let me tell you something else: most humans are stupid scumbags, incapable of rational thinking and yet prideful and stubborn and defensive of their ignorance, and hypocritical to the core. I have run into assholes like that all my life. Take the whore from Northwest. She makes me sick whenever I see her pontificate since I know she is a lascivious, lying, hypocritical whore. I didn't know that about her when I first met her, though. I was stupid and gullible. I thought she was a nice woman although I had some reservations because she did brag a lot. She is not the only from the Northwest that makes me sick. Around 2001, another whore in the same area approached me and professed to be a Christian. She sent me some books and professed to love me! I believed her until she started hitting me for money. Anyway, these two whores were not as ugly as the asshole from Down Under. The asshole looked like a cross between a pig and a dog. He was way down repulsive in appearance and possessed an ignorance that went with his "looks".

Most humans don't know anything about logic and rhetoric. They don't know how to reason, but love to see their names in print, especially now they can post their idiotic views on the Internet. In their stupid delusions, they think what they write are oracular in nature, gems of wisdom, and nuggets of unalloyed truths, but they don't know truths are hard to come by and difficult to handle. Only the strong and those with brains, hearts, and decency can hold a true conversation/dialogue in reaching truths or at least their approximations. Scumbags and animals and "little peasants" are not interested in high-minded discussions; instead, they resort to cheap, snide terms of slang and insult to get their rocks off. In a certain community where I reside, we all know who these despicable, inarticulate, barely literate, poorly read, but vociferous Tweedledee and Tweedledum are.

Some Vietnamese with plenty of time on their hand and lack of understanding in their brains love to blast former anti-war activists like Kerry and Fonda especially when these individuals denounced atrocities committed by the American troops. They blithely observed that atrocities were committed by all sides in times of war. They also vehemently ridiculed and denounced certain former Vietnamese expatriates singers who decided to come back to Vietnam in order to give concerts or actually live there. I answered to these holier-than-thou, stuck-up, self-righteous , loud-mouthed social critics with the following observations:

1. Yes, atrocities were committed by all sides in Vietnam War. But the atrocities under discussion were the atrocities committed by the supposedly moralistic, God-fearing Christian Americans, the kind of atrocities that bothered the sensibilities of the young lieutenant John Kerry and he would like to bring them to the attention of the American Congress. Call his action as "self-serving" as long as you like, I call his testimony the words of a brave young man whose conscience was not impaired. Don't you think that Kerry did not contemplate that his testimony would incur the wrath of knee-jerked patriots and sociopaths and psychopaths?

2. Kerry served only four months in Vietnam but had three injuries. That was why he was qualified to get out of Vietnam. At least he served and volunteered in the dangerous missions of Swift Boat instead of escaping to Canada or lobbying for military deferments as the arm-chair "warrior" Dick Cheney did.

3. It is far-fetched and tenuous to establish a direct link between the anti-war activities of the likes of Kerry and Fonda and being street people of some American Vietnam War veterans. Is there any literature to that effect? It could well be these people were constitutionally weak in the first place and couldn't handle the aftermaths of the horrors (some of which might even be committed by themselves) of war,and the disappointment of not being given a hero's welcome complete with ticker parade and late night reveries in town. While I don't deny that the anti-war movement hastened the end of the American involvement in the Vietnam, I think the role of individuals like Kerry, Fonda, Dylan, and Baez was blown out of proportions. I don't think these individuals played any pivotal roles in the movement. At best they lent an air of artistic and celebrity endorsements to the cause which enjoyed widespread support among the young and the liberals. Attacking these individuals at this juncture of time over their activities 40 years ago smacks pettiness and anachronism. Our energy is better spent in attacking the VC leadership head-on who are posing grave danger to the survival of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people. Do we have the guts to do that? Or are we just a bunch of wankers indulging in self-gratification by attacking Kerry et al on the one hand, and verbally assaulting Pham Duy, Khanh Ly, and others on the other? I think it is cowardly to attack those who are not in a position to fight back. If we must attack, we should attack those who can inflict damage on us.

Real truths are hard to come by and difficult to handle. All pretensions to truths are just smoke and empty, stupid noises made by vain attention-seekers.

4. I said North Vietnam was bombed ALMOST to Stone Age, and that statement, though somewhat exaggerated, was not far from the picture.

5. Only those Vietnamese with a burning, boundless, irrational hatred of Communism to the point they could not distinguish the rightfully hated VC leadership and their diehard followers from the hapless Vietnamese common folks who were and are forced to live under the yoke of Communism, would oppose any program and activity that would improve Vietnam, but would not necessarily remove the VC leadership from power. Such Vietnamese love fighting yesterday 's wars and yesterday's antiwar protesters and cannot rock themselves to sleep unless they have to say something pejorative about Kerry and Fonda whenever they have a chance. These people have fossilized mindsets. It would be far better and smarter for them to cultivate relations with incoming American Secretary of State John Kerry and asks him somehow to convince and influence Vietnam'sVC leadership to see the world, especially regarding Red China, the way Burma's leaders are seeing.

Most people just exist and they know that. They are too lazy to change for the better and yet they know life is slipping away from them. Do you really want to be like them? If not, be prepared to think of the following (thinking leads to acting):

1. Who am I?
2. What am I doing?
3. Where am I going?
4. Am I strong enough to face truths? Will that make me happy and serene and proud of myself?

Think back of what I wrote on at the beginning about logic, rhetoric, and propositions. All the words there were distilled from a lifetime of thinking. I didn't copy them from anybody. At the age of 11, I discovered all by myself that there was no Personal God. While that may be a private, and not an universal, truth, it's a cornerstone of my thinking. Everything has flowed from there.