Yesterday, I finished reading The Most Dangerous Game
with my middle school students. The topic of elitism came up.
I said, “I guess everybody is elitist in some respect.”
A girl named Mary raised her hand. “It’s not right to think that
you’re better than others. Under any circumstance!”
“Well, let’s suppose that once you get older, you fall in
love with a soju bum. The guy doesn’t have a job, and he sits around on the
sofa all day. And then you bring him home to your parents and announce your
wedding plans. Do you think your dad is going to be happy? I would assume that
he wants you to marry a doctor or a lawyer in the future.”
“That’s completely different.”
“How so?”
“Soju bums are responsible for their own actions. Looking
down on them isn’t elitism.”
Another girl raised her hand. Her name is Kelly. “Lots of
people in Korea drink soju. That doesn’t make them bums.”
I held up my hands in a sign of surrender. “You’re absolutely
right. If some guy wants to have a little bit of booze after work, then I’m all
for him. I’m talking about the poor souls who can’t control themselves. They
don’t have a job or a house to call their own because they’re drunk all the
time. Society has a tendency to look down upon those type of folk. Isn’t that a
form of elitism?”
She didn’t respond. Instead, she just shot me a puzzled
glance. I don’t blame her. There are no easy answers in life.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Most of the fuckheads and
retards who read this blog have never stepped foot on the peninsula. So let me
educate you. Soju is actually the most popular drink in the world. It is
produced in Korea but sells like hotcakes all over Asia. You can buy it in
America, too. However, it will cost you eight bucks for a small bottle. Yet you
can get that very same bottle over here for $1.50 at the supermarket. It tastes
like vodka.
I suppose that I’m a fortunate man. I never get depressed
about going to work. In fact, I consider my place of employment an actual oasis
away from the cares of my everyday life. It’s the endless banter. I adore it.
Of course, it’s fortunate that my students don’t know that I’m full of shit on
most topics. If they ever discover the truth about my low IQ, they’ll probably
toss me right out the window.
I eventually got home at 6 p.m. and changed into my jammies.
Then I ate dinner with my family. We had chicken kebabs and hot bread for the second
day in a row. I consumed the food joyously and washed it down with a glass of
generic cola. I’m a broke dead dick, so I can’t afford the good stuff.
After that, I ran to the bathroom to take a shit. (I continue
to experience digestive problems these days.) I read the headlines on my smartphone
as I sat on the throne. Two Liberian diplomats were given 9-year prison
sentences for raping a couple of Korean middle-school girls at a hotel in Pusan.
They tried claiming diplomatic immunity, but the Korean authorities refused to
listen.
Later, I switched on Netflix. I’m still watching In the
Name of God: Holy Betrayal. The current episode is focused on a bizarre
crime that happened back in 1987. Thirty-two people were found dead in the
attic of a large house. The incident was declared a mass suicide. However,
there’s a growing consensus that all those folk might have been murdered. Here
today, gone tomorrow.
that went well with dinner. I'm a cannibal.
ReplyDeleteCheers. Enjoy your grub.
DeleteThe local Korean grocery sells an even cheaper alcoholic beverage, called "makkoli"
ReplyDeleteIt's white and comes in cheap plastic containers, like milk.
It's nothing like vodka though, it tastes like & is about as potent as fermented rice water (which it's probably made from).
Cheap & Cheerful!
I used to drink it back in the day. But I'm off the booze. I just can't handle it anymore.
Deletethe filthy bastard what writes this blog, is now stooping to insult his loyal readerati.
ReplyDeletethat is just wwrong. soju or no.
what you say to your reader is, is this. oh gracious reader. oh beneficent reader. oh thou reader, filled of lovingkindness.
but back to the girls name of of mary and kelly. this is what makes the blog bring in the audience.
did you know, that the new testamony was writ in greek, where mary is spelt maria (but with greek letters). and if you rub out the i (which is to say the iota, just a little tiny eyelash really) then you can write in a theta but you half to squeeze it in on the parchment or maybe put it kind of upstairs like a superscript. well anyways, what you get is, is that you get martha.
and there's this lady scholar on youtube and she shows a parchment where that really happened. and she says that somebody like a scribe didn't want mary/maria to be named in the passage so they changed it to martha. right there. in situ.
but what none of the scribes ever did was, was that they never messed with the name kelly.
I never believe the scholars when it comes to the bible. I try to remain childlike and full of wonder.
Deletehow persia went ahead and got itself called iran
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoyctsgMwq0
must see for every girl and boy
I watched the video. I like that kind of stuff. History. Always interesting.
Deleteupdate on war crimes and the international court
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMe2Zz4fnQY
you can't have a court without a lawmaking body elected by voters
and that is why I am calling for the establishment of a War Congress. the members will be elected by Warfighters. to enact laws that the international war court can ajudacate.
to ensure legitamacy, we need to go ahead and write a constitution for all humanity. it will have articles describing how to elect the War Congress and how the War Court will be nominated by the War Exectutive and approved by the War Congrefs.
this can be done via a collborative google doc so everybody can be heard. and then we can go ahead and start fighting more lawful wars.
Jimmy Dore. Like him.
DeleteI've been to the Florida peninsula, and I didn't see soju anywhere.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably there. Try an Asian supermarket.
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