Many global issues have direct bearing on my personal everyday life,
and even the framework of my sexual exploits.
Where America is at war, for example.
America is always at war. If there is no Cold War, then they wage war
on terrorism. And if America isn't entertained by the war on drugs, they
engage in a war on AIDS, or the war against the sexual exploitation of
children.
America is always hypocritical. This is a direct effect from being too
powerful. America only knows the perspective from above; it does not
know how the world looks from below. But if you cannot take a look from
below, you will always be hypocritical.
Osama bin Laden presents the bill. He is not just popular with Muslim
fundamentalists. Muslim fundamentalists are less than 10 percent of
those who cheer his actions. His tremendous popularity in the Third World
is due primarily to the fact that he confronts what is perceived as the
world's superpower of arrogance, the US, which messes with everybody
else's affairs.
By and large, we live in a bipolar world. The two poles are the First
World and the Third World. There is no such thing as a Second World.
Actually, even the term First World has been born out of ignorance. What
we started with was the "Old World" (Europe) and the "New World" (the
Americas), and all the rest lumped together as the "Third World".
OK, the terms Old World and New World have gone out of fashion. Now we
have a First World, which means rich countries with a Western-style
political structure, and a Third World, which means poor countries, or
countries with a political system that does not match American standards
of decency.
