Over the last few weeks I have read a number of people from all around the world mention a new way to look at the middle east situation, its kind weird because it's so obvious, yet its a perspective i find quite accurate. It's not about religion or land but a difference in time. one society still feudal, dominated by an ancient meme that has no adaptive process, it fears sex, females, technology and has a desire to control by the sword. israel embraces technology, sex, women, it's secular and adaptive. i guess having lived there i see it clearly, not through the eyes of the media. i mean where else do nuclear physicists have jobs picking up garbage, and where else do you see the ex violinist of the Hungarian philharmonic busking outside a busy tel aviv street. i recall these things, a taxi driver that was a pure mathematician in russia, these things are so common, there are doctors everywhere and the streets are filled with art. actually its an amazing place.
now i certainly am not saying its enemies are not equally amazing but they are living in the dark age. perhaps the solution to the middle east is banning all religous teaching and indoctrination, taking away the brainwashing machine and replacing it with a scientific form of education anhilating the idea of memes and belief.

the day started with me asleep in the midst of a dream where a voice as clear as anything said, 'david attenbourough is dead.'
i awoke, ran to the tv, nothing, ran down the cafe with pan, scanned the paper, nothing, mmm, curious. had a few meetings at work which seemed to go quite well, lots of ground covered, productive, a good feeling.

i'm halfway through the incredible book, 'girls like us' i think if you live in australia you need to read this book, its quite disturbing, quite compulsive. written by the very brave paul sheehan, i see he gets a lot of flack from ye SMH readers but not me, i think he's one of the bravest writers around, don't tow the PC line, and is able to present the story without being tied to an ideology or agenda. the book follows a series of rapes in sydney and while the story is focused upon the terrible perpetrators it also looks at the plight of the victims in the legal process. the cases are well known but the details are incredible, the justifications and the brutality of these perps will really surprise a few people, and the larger implications about multi culturism will certainly make people think. wake up people this is where democracy is failing.