fascist poison

perhaps its just the drooping jowls, but lawyers seem to avoid talking to me..

in the hostel in Darjeeling.. (it’s a good one actually… near the tenzing norgay youth hostel)  are some europeans.. one dude studying law.. in Portugal.. .. its like a recording..  smoke and mirrors.. legalese.. superiority .. its complex.. ( I have friends in low places)  .  


nor do i ignore the possibility of body odor or halitosis. (as a reason for their avoiding me)

but why is it that I feel that that lawyers everywhere are the more or less hard-core apologists for the more or less fascist regime that supports them?   Is it some kind of symbiosis or am I too far gone already for anyone to be bothered answering? 

superior..mmm.. well they maybe look it ..and some advocates are possibly genuine (and superior to those they defend)..  but it’s basically a profession of pimps. (no wonder so many lawyer jokes are bitingly accurate.) (has anyone ever really heard a lawyer tell a lawyer joke?)

the portugese have a history in India.. around goa as I recall.. and along the coast to Mumbai..(I once had a friend called Joe de Sousa from Mumbai.. whose ancestors had been converts/victims of the portugese)…

banglore is the major city over there I’m told.

going back to Portugal a few hundred years ago… and with the increasingly fanatical tone of the Turkish khalifate, the spice trade was interrupted. (they talk about spices . as if the portugese gave a hoot about spices they couldn’t get from Portugal........................Bof).

 The portugese being inventive enough and facing the atlantic ocean..(maybe some viking residue)  ..having a history of ocean voyage, decided to go around Africa to get  to (the euphemistic) spice islands... they established an archipelago of settlements around the african continent to s.e. asia... Mozambique..macao . guinea bissao i(i think) east timor..  etc..protugese settlements.. maybe they wanted spices .. they definately wanted gold.. slaves.. who  tf  knows what they wanted.?.   (what they did in south America is pretty good indication….. of what they actually wanted… )  but they were here in India first before any other europeans as a political entity..  (though of course there had been travellers .. the .. marco polos of this world.... etc. )

I don’t think I ever heard portugese rule characterized as benevolent.  no.... it was conversion by the cannon basically.. the sword having been replaced with the proliferation of more up-to-date means…they were ousted by the dutch and English (east India companies) if I recall correctly who followed hot on their heels..(though the indians didn’t get around to finally kicking them out till 1961)  I doubt that anyone here in India missed them when they were sent packing...fascism has no roots in the evolving human soul.

It was fascism that poisoned the old Europe.   It is now that Europe is paying the price for its fascist/imperialist past.  Instead of concentrating its considerable forces on unity, it is basking in the imagined glory of a vanished dream.  (not just the portugesers.. the poms.. the French, .. even the scandinavians look back to the viking past…. Fascism is what poisoned the old Europe!!!!!!. May it rest wherever it is resting.  Hope remains as long as it does so.

Its cloudy this morning..no visibility in Darjeeling. Best not to come here in September if you want to go trecking or viewing everest.  Too much rain and mist… still it’s a welcome relief from the gangeticplane..where it is(at this time of year at least) so hot and uncomfortable that all you can think of is getting some good ganja to escape or a jet plane to somewhere else.. heheheh.  That guy from Portugal wasn’t so bad.  Ive come across far worse.