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[smokingboot]

Yesterday I bimbled, trying on pretty perfumes for the summer, flirting with gorgeous guys and making eyes at a beautiful genius. Butterfly woman, silly laughing girl, dancing in the sumshine.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the same planet:

http://www.counterpunch.org/kroth04182007.html

I thank illuminating_dragon with all my heart for this link.

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[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think its good to just enjoy life when we can.

Good to hear someone is talking at least a smidgen of sense over what happens with alarming frequency in the USA. I think it goes deeper though-psychological isolation is just a symptom of a culture that has come to prize individualism over community, self over other. The combination of the 'right to pursue happiness' and capitalism has perhaps skewed American culture into a position where spree killers are a natural extension of a violent and 'me' obsessed nation.

Thats my take anyway. Thanks for the link.

[andsoitisso.livejournal.com]

That was a good article. That is the thing about India - it is a little bit of a paradox really. I used to wonder all the time how it worked...that India had almost absolutely nothing, and people in general are relatively much happier - they are always smiling.

And the thing is though people are poorer - there is always too much social contact - it is unavoidable and they are involved in each others' lives(and trust me, sometimes it is such a pain). And because of contact, people are happier. That is one of the reasons I came back to India.

"For small creatures such as us, the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan.