Who are your heroes?

I used to like Jack London; I adored the call of the wild. (Turns out he took the idea from someone else. He even wrote them a letter thanking them for their idea that he stole.) Mr London had to have a lot of empathy for animals to be able to write about them the way he does. I just watched a documentary I recommend if you want to feel ashamed of the human condition. I recommend "Unforgivable Blackness: The rise and fall of Jack Johnson" Guess what, Jack London, the animal lover and naturalist, was a big fat racist lunatic.

The things printed at the time in the New York and Los Angeles Times will make your skin crawl. Jack London has a few quotes smattered about the film as well, once again an example of our ability to care more about pets and even wild animals and have zero compassion for other human beings; it's tradition in this fantastic land I just happened to be born in. Go team america go, unless you happen to be not white.

I am supposed to take pride in that, pride in these borders fenced off and staked out now in 3D GPS. Borders drawn up before my Grandparents were even born. Go USA beat someone at something because we certainly need to feel proud of our arbitrary team. I am on this team of the USA because my parents had some sex. I can certainly see why someone would take pride in that and pay homage to a flag country queen god whatever culture you have had force fed to your brainpan since you were conceived.

I watched about 10 minutes of Soccer yesterday and the USA managed to blow a lead against some team from some other country and I found myself spun up, tied up, in the game. Rooting for third rate players on an inept team. Then I thought about Tibet and Darfur and I turned it off.

Why I was rooting for a team in a land that doesn't even play football and calls it soccer is beyond me. Team Sports are just another pretend division, in a series of bullshit divisions they have been feeding me since red rover red rover let tiny kid come over. My High school vs. Your High school, my color of skin vs. yours, my country tis of thee, vs. your cheese eating surrender country... I bet France doesn't have any secret torture facilities, hasn't violated their constitution and isn't ignoring the geneva convention. I bet France has a better track record when it comes to important things like not being a big fat stupid rednecked bully punching someone in the face with one hand and shoving jesus into their ears with the other. Jesus woluld be another Bullshit team to join, and if you look into it even Jesus has like 10000 different teams all saying that the other teams have it all wrong, not just those crazy muslims, those crazy mormons catholics, evangelicals, southern pigfarmers babtists etc etc etc ad naseum.

So Thank you Jack Johnson and Jack London for inspring me to get angry enough to write and actualy publish a draft. You should see what I save as drafts, or the crap I delete.

And now the barely tied in music video that has some slight reference to whitefang or the call of the wild or never cry wolf or something, the Weakerthans kick hind end

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