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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Best Forgotten by the Mekong

As published at SubStack, 8/17/23:





[Pakse, 8/15/23]

After I posted a photo on 8/15/23, a reader commented, “MTV, Kurt Cobain, Mickey Mouse, plus an obese kid probably due to junk food: All-American cultural icons and values in a place decimated by American bombs, the most bombed place in the world... and the killing continues.”

Although there are no American fast-food joints in provincial Pakse, fried chicken and french fries, cooked in much recycled vegetable oil, are available, and, until two months ago, there was a Daily Donuts, a Thai chain. There are also weird pizzas with squirted mayonnaise, and a Korean corn dog stand.

The sow faced girl with a lardy neck may have come from somewhere else. The photo was taken at dusk on the bank of the Mekong. Most of the Laos enjoying the river view, breeze and evening coolness were not so branded by America. Still, that virus is spreading.

In Thailand and Laos, talismans are often placed over entrances to ward off evil spirits. Mirrors serve the same purpose. Seeing their own reflections, demons flee, you see? In Pakse, these mirrors tend to be convex, with some huge, especially if the house is at a three-way intersection. At the receiving end of so much unknown traffic, you need extra protection.

For Laos and others, wearing English on their clothing is the newest superstition. Since Uncle Sam is essentially Superman, you partake of his protection and otherworldly power by having his language on your person. A long while ago, dude even went to the moon and back!

At the Smithsonian, there’s a tin foil wrapped moon lander with no fuel tank to lift it back into space. America was so advanced.

About to eat egg noodles with duck, a boy has “BREAD” on his chest. Strutting into a hip cafe, a cuntsure lovely wears a faded jean jacket with, “TODAY IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO LEAVE ME ALONE.” Selling firewood, a dark man who might just be illiterate is wrapped in this hoodie, “I [heart shape] MY BOYFRIEND.”

Though I’ve repeatedly stressed Laos’ relative immunity from America’s elaborate set of diseases, it’s still infected.

Al DuClur, an American living in Thailand, concurs:

Enjoy Laos while you can because if Thailand is an example of the Asian future things will become far more corrupted.

Not only was the top candidate in the last election a US stooge, most young Thais I meet want Thailand to become a US protectorate so they can have freedom of speech, end corruption and have good paying jobs. That is quite a change from Thais priding themselves on never being a colony. Teenage Thais are starting to listen to Thai rap filled with constant chants of f&ck.

Reality is that as long as countries allow Jewish social media companies free reign in their countries, the American Empire will be able to hijack their culture.

Unfortunately few countries understand the threat of social media. This is probably the result of most leaders coming of age before social media. They would never allow a foreign tribe to take over all their mainstream media but the leaders' wives and kids like to post selfies on social media so they don’t see enough harm from sm to upset their families.

To spare the rest of the world further damage, America must implode as quickly as possible.

While waiting, we can look to Africa for inspiration. Before Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali rejected Western meddling into their internal affairs, which includes the garrisoning of Western troops, a total outrage, black Africans had already said no to Jewjabs, and they have been totally indifferent to the West’s massive propaganda against Putin and Russia.

Living in Windhoek, Namibia for five months, I passed nearly every day huge posters of Putin put up by a Serb immigrant. Namibians were fine with that. Outside the brainwashed West, there’s no Russophobia.

[Windhoek, Namibia on 3/1/22]

When Dmitry Bivol fought Canelo Alvarez in Vegas, Bivol was not allowed to have the Russian flag carried into the ring, or have this flag on his trunks. America has become so small minded and shameless.

When black Africans compare Putin to Biden, Macron, Scholz, Trudeau, Sunak or Zelensky, etc., they can clearly see who’s the clown.

The West’s worship of cross-dressing freaks also reveals its insanity and degeneracy. North America minus Mexico and Europe have become the darkest continents. Nothing is darker than mass suicide, but they’re doing it quite casually, when not gleefully.

Jewjerked, Ukraine is also killing itself, with its young men sacrificed, and many of the rest fleeing. On 4/5/22, Zelensky raised eyebrows when he declared that Ukraine “will definitely become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face. We will not be surprised that we will have representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in all institutions, supermarkets, cinemas, there will be people with weapons. I am sure that our security issue will be number one in the next ten years.”

Like the US, then, it will be a country perpetually at war, voluntarily. Unlike the US, though, it doesn’t have a vast pool of genderqueer to feed into the transfat grinder, so it’s already fucked.

In incinerated Lahaina, Maui, realtors have already swooped in. In Ukraine, Black Rock and JPMorgan have set up a “reconstruction bank” to lure foreign investors. Sex tourists and cradle raiders are also impatient for Putin to cut it out. Tired of being surrounded by Arabs, Israelis can recover Khazaria. Everything is going so well.

Far away from all that, I should just take it easy.

A few days ago, a Saigon friend emailed to say she’ll be in Vung Tau at the end of the month. Visiting the poet Nguyen Quoc Chanh, she’ll bring a plate of cheeses and cold cuts. “Come back soon and drink with us,” she urged.

Mellow and complacent, I feel no urgency to go anywhere. Laos soothes the soul. For centuries, it has lagged behind, and that, paradoxically, is its salvation. In two hours, it will be cool enough to stroll along the Mekong. I’ll swim with that crowd.

Even in the dumbest T-shirts, Laos are lovely, for they’re relaxed. Unlike some people, they’re not trying to prove anything.

[Pakse, 8/15/23]
[Pakse, 8/17/23]
[Vientiane, 5/31/23]





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