The CIA & Apocalypse Now Story Does Not Sell These Days

Out of Touch with the Times: I went to Patpong Museum (Patpong is a globally famous, sex tourism area, full of bars with prostitutes pole dancing) because I had some free time to kill, & after seeing it learned about Tony Poe (a CIA agent, who often referenced as the model for Colonel Kurtz (acted...

The lost Art & Sceience of Cross Cultural Friendship

Cross Cultural Friendship: In picture looks like a French woman & an Asian woman, having coffee together, on a sidewalk cafe in Paris & I was curious; so I checked google & found nothing on cross cultural friendship, & this tells me, of a big problem, because with globalization, Cross Cultural aspects, like friendship, is...

The Price of Being Egotistic

Years ago, I got an E-mail from USA Library of Congress, said one of my blogs being archived, & I no idea what that meant, so asked a friend, he said it great honor, few independent unpublished writers ever reach that, I should tell friends, but back then I just wrote, cared little else; told...

Both Are for Me & About Me

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (writes about poor people suffering, with a dark edgy, deep human psychological aspects, relating to changes in society from outside & people are their own demise) & Leo Tolstoy (writes about the aristocrats & their suffering from confinements to societal rules that must be followed, so relates people seeking freedom from family &...

“Beauty will Save the World” – Dostoevsky

“Beauty will save the world” - Dostoevsky (Numerous literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces) From Obvious State: Out of context, it's easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive or optimistic. But it’s complicated. For Dostoevsky,...

If I were to Write a New Book, This is How It Will Start

Personally, I have nothing to gain or lose on Ukraine, as I do not drive much, live in the tropics, country I at is an agricultural exporter, but yes, of course, I am not heartless, so I feel sorry for those fleeing war, also those innocent civilians who suffering, got hurt and lost lives. Yet,...

No Matter Where You Go, There You Are

Many years back, I had an executive friend, Thomas, and he took a vacation to London. There, one night, he went to a club. He met a woman and everything was incredible. They got so excited and because of this and that they had sex in a phone booth. He said, back in America, he...

Hollywood Dominates Latin America Where America’s Imperialism Has Always Been Around the Area

Hollywood is propping up the image of America as good. But the problems is, America is much criticized globally and a cause a great deal of problems globally. Look at Latin America, Pedro, a Mexian actor friend of mine there tells me, America's films dominate. Superhero movies from Hollywood is everywhere, he says, making it...

Demonizing for Advantage: Archaeologists Say Early Caribbeans Not ‘Savage Cannibals” as Colonists Wrote

Legitimizing one’s action by “Demonizing” and “Dehumanizing” mother people is not new and the concept have been around for centuries, even in Europe before Colonization, just look at the “Witch Hunt.” The same with the colonist. A colonist is a member of a government-backed group that settles in a new country or region. The land...

A Bit of Serious Thought on Jamaica

I once visited Jamaica a long time ago with my then girlfriend, Pam, and if you know tourism and travel to Jamaica, one of the things one does, sort of a bucket list thing, is rafting down the river in these bamboos raft that took one through the remote areas of Jamaica. And when one...