Kibbutzing

A quarter of the tourism to Israel is made up by evangelical Americans. The kibbutzes have had to made the inevitable transition to privatisation. - BBC World 17:42 GMT +1

So, rather than the kibbutzes being maintained as an utopian oasis where all food, healthcare entertainment is catered for by the workers themselves and discussion being free - kibbutzes run day-care centers, produces military grade saftety products, rent out convention centre and accomodation for bible schools. Echa!

I was just thinking it would be nice to travel the world, contribute to strengthen what parts of a society which are actually worth keeping. Working on a kibbutz in the sunshine, having discussions that broaden the horizon. It is a thought frought with dilemmas. Much like Holidays in the Axis of Evil. It could be called Holidays of a Socialist. Standing crooked but proud under a basket of harvested grapes, having a soar throath from all the chit-chat, infiltrating bible schools. Getting the state of Israel back on a collective effort to do some good and be peaceful.

There is nothing more secure than a totalitarian society, unless you are a dissident. There is nothing more unsettling than a totally transparent society, especially if you are a dissident. Every dissident strives to make his surroundings change through not being part of a common view. Having an own virtual national state that is excempt from the power of any factual national state must be good. A bit vain, but still a means to an end. The national state is a silly thing when it is not respected for its moral imperative. Equally it has outplayed its role if it imposes nothing but local jurisdiction of a universal moral, however minimalistic that might be. At some point the national state becomes redundant.

Give the land back to those who need it. Eat, relax a bit dude, talk to people about how to solve those problems that are becoming too large to by physical aggression. When a bomb goes off in a crowded market in Baghdad, it is pretty hard to comprehend the world. Yet another day in the Iraq War, yet another Lebanon, yet another Gaza. Sunni and Shia Muslims lies on either side of the visible carnage, while a trapped US army can do no sensible action in the clear. Diplomacy in the hidden, mass recruitment of language students to the army intelligence service, financial intelligence being a new publicized branch of counter-terrorism. Come on! It is senseless.

Words of the day: proliferation finance activities

USD all-time low. Prediction of 2,5 USD to one GPB. Not necessarily a promising sign in the short term. It is too early to hope for a collapse of evangelical capitalism.