radical excitement and apathy

i have been reading a lot about the riots/insurrection in england, still not

i kind of want to ask crispin best, ben brooks, or lee rourke about it, but i assume they probably are bogged down with lots of people asking about it

read a quick thing on reddit this morning that said that the iranian premier was urging the british government/police to show restraint

i am not sure if it was from a joke website

has anyone heard about the protests planned on wall street in september on constiution day?

is anyone planning on going?

i dont know

obviously there is most likely more than a coincidence to the fact that revolutions are occuring elsewhere in the world and then now this is happening in london/england (seems to be spreading to various cities somewhat rapidly, read that rubber bullets may be approved to suppress it, seems like a lot of looters and also a lot of pissed off people who arent in it just for looting maybe, appears that the entire government of the country was on vaca when this broke out, what a surprise)

the student protests last year were much milder but possibly some of the same contigencies/reasons

i think there are a lot of people in the western world or maybe as a whole who are immigrants, young, poor, or any combination who hate how shit has been developing

people feel like meat kind of, like they are getting put through a grinder and they dont have choices, maybe, i dont know 

(kind of should probably stop writing about politics)

and then a lot of other people who hate how shit is going but they want the governments to stop spending money and enhancing social welfare programs and worrying about people's rights

and then lots of of people who are apathetic to varying degrees

i probably would want to place myself somewhere between the first and third groupings

although i think the first and second actually have a lot more in common, at least emotionally, ugh i need to stop typing

reading the bbc, same stories over and over again with just a few words/sentences changed, pretty much more or less

reading the nytimes, ditto

reading reddit, some more obscure/less publicized things referenced there

reading we who are about to die

yall should check out that site, i like that site a lot, it has an actual political involement, which is nice everyonce in a while

there are some good recent posts up on there about the riots (although the most recent post is, coincidentally, about the reading mentioned in my previous post, it just has pics and links, but check out some of the other posts on there, interesting takes on politics)

html giant isnt saying anything about it really.  there was a post about the global market, specifically relating to the publishing industry, which i guess is tangentially related to this, because of the international economic implications of the debt crap

i like html giant though bc its usually somewhat depoliticized and talks about writing/lit/culture mainly

but i like we who are about to die bc of the opposite or whatever

cant form any coherent thoughts

are left-leaning people like me stupid how we always get spikes in our political interest/excitement about shit like this?

is the the world ending?

wikileaks

the "arab spring"

credit as the economic judgment of the morality of a human

us getting into some more wars leaving getting back in too many military bases or whatever

i think i dont really like violence, even though it interests me.  if asked my direct moral beliefs on it i would have to think for a bit.  is that apathetic?

think most people would say they dont like violence though, of course its all relative/conditional/contextual.

is it just everyone's interest/excitement gets spiked with shit like this?

feel like those of us who are into left or radical politics maybe always jump on shit like this when it happens (see 1968, for example.  of course, see 1848 for somewhat of a counterexample)

thinking about sartre.....

thinking about camus.....

i think i might watch the newest episode of "breaking bad" or "curb your enthusiasm" because i am getting a headache