| Why do long haired flower girls love Tibet so much? |
[30 Aug 2004|12:57pm] |
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The cause: All those Volvos and Volkswagen wagons who have taken up the superhuman task of “Free-ing Tibet” (I mean, take on China?!! Are you out of your mind?!!!!) by tacking tactically placed bumper stickers on their ugly asses and practicing Tibetan Buddhism at high tea(only green or herbal allowed) while the parents of the said vehicle owners foot the bills for the car, the gas, the sticker and the prayer beads.
I do not know whether it is right to put TIBET in the folder labeled “CONSPIRACIES”. There is too much stuff in there – Loch Nessie's blurred poloroids crowding with Dr. Atkins’ secret recipes, Area 51 parking permits and Syd Barret’s prescriptions and now the Free Tibet flyers need be in there too? Wouldn’t that be asking for too much? Although it could very well be a religious conspiracy of lamas who plan to take over the world riding on the crest of a huge sympathy wave?
I mean what is so special about Tibet? There is Somalia, Sudan(thank heavens, Danny Glover reads the papers), Kurdistan, Palestine and Burma – but maybe they are not marketable as the cute smooth-skinned baby lamas in brick red anoraks twiddling their prayer wheels. And not to forget those cool beads and heavenly incense sticks.
Free Tibet is a safe political slogan that all the slender girls with long hair and long cottony flowing skirts (majority of the aforementioned car owners fall into this category) can make without sounding too political, yet at the same time make the world aware that they are politically conscious. It’s all your fault, Richard Gere.
Agreed, China is not exactly a good choice for a benevolent big brother ruling over anyone. But come on, legalize abortion, take the framed copy of Ten Commandments off the wall of the Oval Office and free Tibet all in the same breath? Give a country back to a hard-core religious monastic school who’ll take it back where it belongs – i.e the middle ages?!?!?
Ok my outrage over Free Tibet Bumper Stickers is over. Tofu, it is your turn next.
p.s – I have no axe to grind with Tibet or Tibetans, in fact I am all for their independence from China, this was just a case of road-rage. Moreover I am one of those slender girls with long hair and long cotton skirts.
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