In which FHC spends his Sunday by the pool in …

As there is not such a thing as the Billy Goat Trail around here, I sat by the pool this morning and finished “You shall know our velocity” (a book I only owe to Kevin D.’s latest emotional fiasco) without knowing what the word velocity meant (what could argue that this is somehow a self-explanatory word but then one would be a heartless bastard I would not want to have anything to do with). If anything this book only helped understand a little more Kevin D.’s eternal helplessness to grasp modernity as well as his inability to implement his plan to travel beyond the US border. Traveling, I have to admit, is really a bitch. I also bided on a picture of JFK but that’s another story.

Also I got to think about what seems to be the ineluctable upcoming genocide of gay people (or maybe a follow-up to the smaller-scale one already orchestrated by the Nazis during WWII). Genocides certainly have a common set of early symptoms (pre-genocidal warning signs in the State Department’s language) such as increasing political attention to the target group, resignation of the target group to a sub-optimal set of rights (it always gets a little better right before it gets terribly worse), increasing cultural differences between the victimized minority and the rest of the population etc.... Unfortunately it seems that in our world for some historically persecuted minorities a genocide is the mandatory step towards better living conditions, self-awareness of the unfairness of its political situation as a first step to a better organization to respond to it. Sometimes when I become aware of my own indifference to the way educated people talks about “the gays” and how prominent political figures use us as a political tool I am really fearful.

On this very cheerful note, I wish you the best Sunday of all. I am going to try figuring out what happened to LL at that unfamous Carlos party.

Comments

[LL]

Gosh, FHC, that was so uplifting.

[Carlos]

By unfamous I really hope you mean infamous!