Happy Holidays..... Wishes?
So It's been 3 days now! Elections were held in Haiti, read all kinds of opinions, some smart others less all emotional. And I came to one simple conclusion, Karma is a bitch.
Anyone remembers when a few months ago, the results for who was to participate in these elections came out? People your memory is short. (Literal translation of memwa'w kout) The CEP/KEP kept out for some kind of legal reason, the diaspora out of the elections. While, at the same ignoring other laws by accepting the canditature of other candidates. Remember now? yeah you do, a lot of us were thrilled about avoiding Wyclef candidacy claiming that it would be yet another national disaster. But what did the other cadidate do? well you said it NOTHING!! none. Everyone kept on going about their little campaign aknowledging that most of the candidates issued from the Lavalas party, that were once part of the government did not represent any real threat since the MYTH Aristide comfortably installed in Pretoria did not endorse any of them. Instead everyone focused their attention on pin pointing the threat and weaknesses of the party in power. All focus their fight based on an opinion, instead than on an obvious facts because well it was unpopular. They all accepted the results went on, sitting on a cloud of dreams believing that the elections would be fair while they obviously had proof that they were not. Yes, they all failed, All 19 of them. They all, by spending their precious time and money in campaigning for these elections participated and are authors of the scam that they were. In a situation like the one Haiti is facing currently it saddens me to see the lack of conviction from the political class whether old or new. Most of them did not risk failing by supporting an "unpopular" injustice but instead choose to fight when it was convinient.
Whatever the results of sundays elections may or may not be, I hope that all the candidates, all 19 of them will this time stay on the political scene, and start a convincing fight for what they really believe in. .
To my candidates, winner and all 18 losers, I hope that you during the next 5 years your voice will be heard, your action will be felt and that you will put your convinced self into building a better stronger Haiti. You are the elite of the political class. Millions of people are looking towards you for leadership! set the example. And reverse the Karma!
Started my day in a very particular way this morning. Yesterday I discovered the "freakonomics podcast" , I am a big fan of the book although I never actually read the whole thing, I skeemed thru some passages and really enjoyed the critical thinking behind it. I highly recommend both the podcast and the book and looking forward to seeing the documentary.
To comeback to my morning, I listenned to one the firtst episodes first thing this morning and the subject was about "faking it". You know things we fake in order to survive in society. I always promoted myself among friends, family, girls as genuine and a "keep it real" kinda nigga, well educated black man, did get my engineering ring last week, Ha ha found a way to announce it to the world !!, clever? non? whatever!, Yeah so I listened to the podcast, to that jewish bitch, who hides from her step mother that the she is a fanatic of "the bacon", and pratice eating it alongside pancakes from time to time outside of a full kosher kitchen, Or president Obama not having the courage to admit that he did not go to church. So much bull shit! Our society tends to be govern by some rules and principles that are just freaking stupid. A man cannot govern the United States of america if he doesn't attend church on a regular basis. You know what that means, God has no chance to be president of the US of A. And as much as I was striving to look at the the social aspect of their analysis, self centered bastard that I sometimes am, I started analyzing my own "fakeness". And people it wasn't pretty, the amount of random shit, actions,and desires that crosses my mind by the seconds is just freaking insane. If I acted on a ti zuit fraction of them I would probably be sitting in prison, or in facility for well "CRAZY" people. Since I tend to enjoy society, I have to fake some shit. Can't really hit the beggar invading me or randomly hug a teacher that gave a good lecture and frankly is HOT!! It's not proper, it's punishable of social akwardness.
Nevertheless I will still judge and will continue to judge , those farthing round with their bullshit square asses. I mean a certain level of fakery is necessary for the good functioning of our society but to much is as much politically incorrect, and it just makes me want to hit you very hard.
All to say that I'll consider my WC as my church, and hope to be a regular!! and maybe just maybe see Chavez admit his sexual attraction to mrs misses Obama or something of that sort.
So people keep on checking the hidden side of stuff, we never actually know what actions or feelings are being covered or protected. And Most importantly keep on faking just enough so that it doesn't iritate people and get you killed. And most importantly allow room so that you can be you true self to a certain extent! Start a blog, join the wrestling team or write aHip-hop verse!!
I saw the runaway movie yesterday morning, I was speechless! Talked a bit about and rewatched today. It definetly made me think. Not about life, love or death but instead about creation, imagination, dreams and risk. I' ve spending a lot of times with Hip-hop these days. The beats, the absence of depth was just doing for me it was what I needed, simple easy company. Recurring subject in all the music I was hearing is how rappers think they are changing the game by doing well more of the same . Nevertheless with a pinch of creativity. Then Kanye came back, with a sick single "Power" a sick concept, a song each week some very daring spectacles and a movie. This is no game changer, he is just creating a brand new game. The video itself is brillant. It's rich. It classy, tasteful and sexy. I even dreamed at some point. He just put the art back in pop art and as I recalled very few artist did that in history. So I am sorry everyone Kanye just created one of the best fantasies of all time!
Checkout:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1650787/20101025/west_kanye.jhtml
I saw this video this morning, thought it was really well done. we have to be conscious of our environment.
Maybe it's fall, with its orange leaves holding to the summer sunshine, and its bare naked trees waiting for the winter storms
Maybe its the twenties with the cohabitation of almost and already
Maybe it's the lack of motivation to finish another report after years of study
Maybe its the joys of love and the pain of the separation
Maybe it's the worries and and the excitement
But I am so freakin confuse
Why do adults tell kids? That if they lie they'll go to hell, or that god with punish them if they do not arrange their room
how about the love and compassion messages of the religions of the world
Why not show them the heavenly beauty that exist in having a peacefully arranged space or the fulfilling power of the truth?
so often we blinded by the fear of hell, that we forget what heaven should be. So many let their fears control their lives, even their faith. Our souls should be liberated and free of all fears and connects with its
heaven. Maybe I am being cheesy like a hollywood ending movie! or maybe i just want to attract heaven on me!! so what the HEAV!! peeps
Can t sleep tired of working on some stuff so I turned on the tv and tuned to a movie called "to be fat like me" have no idea what the story is about but it took me exactly 2 min to be uninterested. Why are some movies shot like a bad tv show? shouldn't be the other way around? Maybe I should try sleeping a bit harder . Peace
Can't stop wondering if we were born being able to read. Just imagine that at the dawn of your life you could absorb the experience of the ones that came before you and do completely new ones. we would be at year something like 10010 right now at least in term of knowledge . Danm you futuristic custom made babies you gonna have a fast life. anyways all I can say for now stay away from microwave ovens eat nuts instead of popcorn and keep on growing . Peace, I need some sleep
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Have you ever seen an Unicorn, most probably not, but you know what a unicorn looks like. Some kind of elegant hybrid between a horse and and a rhino that inly lives in little girls imagination right? Well No, it is also how the haitian political scene is right now. A unicorn living in grown man's conscious who like to drink rhum and discuss about who has the biggest balls. We tend to forget took at the big picture. We have to stop seeing haitian politics as a futuristic flying beast but instead as the styracosaurus that it is. Yes I had to make the dinosaur analogy, to train your mind for the newly discovered prehistoric about to take over your virtual world!! So Watch out people
So what is the big picture at least the one I see? A very sharp 24*36 or better yet fast moving Imax filmed Motion picture, well let's not get ahead of ourselves, I am sure your opinion will probably brorden my horizons.
So What does being elected as president of Haiti means today?
1- That you, the candidate has at least ask yourself that question
2- That you are conscious that you are a very incompetent politician, that Wyclef Jean gave you a lesson by showing how weak you are, That Rene Preval is the most brillant haitian tactitian of your time and that he is somehow manipulating you. That the only sucessful political family of the las 20 -25 years is not oficially participating, that if you were not part of it at one point, you have at least 5 or six opponnents that were, and frankly Ariistide still have a say.
3- That you might suffer from the injustice, that the elections might not be democratical
4- That you have brillant diplomatic talent or have an eye to recognize and recruit diplomatic talent.
5- That you fully understand corporate politics not only governement politics, as your country is likely to reconstructed by international corporations. Hey the people that gave the money has to get it back with profits, you get that right. Economics
6- That you are familiar to the blodd diamond story and are aware that you are a source of wealth, and that your people might suffer from it.
7- that your population is hungry, uneducated and hopelless
8- That your brothers evolving in the international community are unorganized and feel that the country is only using them for money, that you are not giving them the opportunity to decide.
9- That you know that you are using tent cities without understanding, or pretending not to understand the real dynamics of it as an excuse to attract the attention.
10-And finally that you are crazy, and that you will need a lot of will and LUCK to make this thing work.
The list is probably longer, I might have failed to see the big picture, arrogant me for thinking so. I forget sometimes that i don't know sh*t.
So if you plan to vote in the future elections or BELIEVE that Haiti must change, keep on asking yourself what do your rulers really see. What does leadership mean in this very particular situation. Where does your dream stop or start ? what are the real parameters? As were are hopefully part of many different generations (hoping for a wide audience here). We all have our part to do. If you are reading this, you are alive and still have an opportunity to change stuff.
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No song either
So long my friends
and by the way I am just fucking tired of political fan clubs claiming that they are parties. It's simply a shame that as a young citizen, I cannot follow any political movement because frankly they are about their leaders instead of an ideal.