crazy comes with the territory of course

you may as well get used to it. Even those appearing most normal are often bat-shit crazy just under the surface. But who are you to hierarchize? And the whole idea that "left and right" (origin: the french revolution where one side of the room was called "left" the other side, "right"; but from whose perspective? The speaker? Or the audience?), the WHOLE IDEA of the "left" and "right" is soooo Europeon-centrick. So, wow, an Asian kissing Europeon ass by so uncritically subordinating to this state of affairs??? "Alien values are implanted into the lives of the people, precisely through the children; alien, not merely in the sense of foreign or exotic, but alien to humanity: a commerciogenic identity is formed. At first it was partly resisted, but with time, it became more and more acceptable, until it has now become a major determinant on the lives of the young, displacing all earlier forms of acculturation, other ways of answering need, other ways of being in the world. This process of forgetting, beyond recall, but perhaps not quite beyond reclamation, is a form of colonialism far more effective than that which held so much of the world in thrall in an earlier empire." ----Jeremy Seabrook in 'The Metamorphoses of Colonialsm'