Informant38

{there was a story at Asia Times on the Special Olympics 2007 being in Beijing, and how the Chinese athletes at this year's event earned fewer medals than the Macau team. it was an admonishing essay, implying that China better get on the stick. and it made me think about all their social engineering and how it's likely they intentionally neglected, and probably at least considered removing, the so-called handicapped. and then the idea of the Special Olympics themselves being like the Christmas and Thanksgiving turkey dinners for the homeless. a gesture designed to comfort the givers, to ease their consciences, as though two meals a year mean anything to the poor, besides two free meals. so the Special Olympics means we're taking care of the 'disadvantaged'. and probably if they're fortunate enough to belong to a middle-class or better family, we are.
when I was 'busking' in the late 80's in California, there were more than a few times I saw a little file of 'special needs' folk and their guides. out for a walk, sun and exercise. the other day I was thinking how fucked the economy's getting and I was wondering. you think the budget for those guys is going up or down? all them spineless neocon social darwinists, you think they're holding back a little extra for the misshapen and the dim? huh? do you? or maybe they're just slipping through the cracks like always only a little faster now, a lot more at a time? I wanted to tie that in with a meditation I've been doing on the navel academy that young California's become. how perfectly they've been convinced to perfect themselves. body emphasis, and quick reactions. and no depth whatsoever. no moral strength, no courage, just physical presence and the ability to discern and adopt what's socially demanded. these kids I saw are the opposite of that. completely unacceptable socially now. you think anybody gives a shit what happens to them? now that the age of prosperity's done? now that it's time to cull, to separate? now that it's time to play survival of the fittest for keeps?}