what's wrong with my backBlog? for heinrich and his mirror

"so they co-existed in the same vein we might with a benign mole. no real harm, no real foul. the mole is happy, the host is content," but, when did you ever ask if how truly "content" the host really was?

"our primary objective is to survive above all else, at whatever expense. this is what i define as narcissism." it may make sense to you, as a man, that narcissism is the only expression possible for our objective of survival--but that's ignoring the fact that the his/herstory of the world did not progress solely because of the advancement of patriarchal societies within which you're content to live. remember matriarchal societies (and if anyone knows more about this, please fill me in since i'm not sure where i've gotten this--collective memory?) were traditionally known as hunter/gatherer social formations that were nomadic--meaning they ate and lay where they could hunt the prey. for these societies, there was no need for private property as in patriarchal societies. and within a matriarchy, there was no room for narcissistic motivations since every member needed to contribute to the group's survival. so where you stand by your limitations of what you've experienced, you should recognize that i, too, see "things as they are on the broader scale." i don't think people from immigrant families have any choice but to know what's on both sides of the scale when you come and you run between two different lands. remember, the other "r's" anecdote? "i am here, because you were there." and from what i know from my immigrant parents, we didn't move forward on purely narcissistic motivations, but from understanding the strength in community(ies) built with people from multiple homelands. so, yeah. an american imperialist invasion in iraq WILL have direct repercussions on all of us, and i'm willing to be part of the antibody to counter it. there is another world possible.