Sunday, January 23, 2011
Can't Help Foreign Hippies
I'm not involved in foreign politics accept for those back home in USA where things are more civilized, and where my views and lifestyle are considered to be conservative. I have few friends in Poland and am a foreigner there and I've been complaining because I'm not finding myself well in that environment. Going anywhere further East would be a mistake. I'm not made of the same clay.
American hippies were different from Polish or Russian hippies. We gave up many luxuries and comfortable Middle Class homes in the name of some ideas, and had to learn to make breakfast or dinner for ourselves and find new perspectives on life. But it wasn't until I came to Poland that I learned basic things such as what animals different kinds of meat came from, for example. In America, I never gave that any thought when buying foiled meat on a tray in a supermarket. Poland is rather hostile territory for foreigners, members of sub cultures, gays, lesbians, hippies, wealthy people, blacks, Jews etc. In other words, for anyone that's different from the mainstream. Most refugees don't stay long in Poland, if they don't have to. I've already got Poles, KGB, GRU, NSA, CIA, FBI, Interpol, the Dutch, Chinese intelligence and Alien UFOs hanging around my crib... and who knows what other prying peeping Toms doing infrared observations of my bedroom and performing preventive rectoscopy just in case if I do anything wrong in their immaculately holy country. So, I can't really say that I feel alone or unnoticed in Poland. All those preventive measures I've had to live with for years because those are the Soviet-like ways things are still done there to keep an army of post-communist agents on the payroll. So, you see... Please don't ask me for help with problems in your country. I don't want to make things worse then they are... I'm almost 60 yrs. old and would like to enjoy life for a change, if you know what I mean. That's also why I'm looking forward to moving back to the "free world" where folks like I don't raise an eyebrow anymore. ¶ 1/23/2011 12:28:00 AM
American hippies were different from Polish or Russian hippies. We gave up many luxuries and comfortable Middle Class homes in the name of some ideas, and had to learn to make breakfast or dinner for ourselves and find new perspectives on life. But it wasn't until I came to Poland that I learned basic things such as what animals different kinds of meat came from, for example. In America, I never gave that any thought when buying foiled meat on a tray in a supermarket. Poland is rather hostile territory for foreigners, members of sub cultures, gays, lesbians, hippies, wealthy people, blacks, Jews etc. In other words, for anyone that's different from the mainstream. Most refugees don't stay long in Poland, if they don't have to. I've already got Poles, KGB, GRU, NSA, CIA, FBI, Interpol, the Dutch, Chinese intelligence and Alien UFOs hanging around my crib... and who knows what other prying peeping Toms doing infrared observations of my bedroom and performing preventive rectoscopy just in case if I do anything wrong in their immaculately holy country. So, I can't really say that I feel alone or unnoticed in Poland. All those preventive measures I've had to live with for years because those are the Soviet-like ways things are still done there to keep an army of post-communist agents on the payroll. So, you see... Please don't ask me for help with problems in your country. I don't want to make things worse then they are... I'm almost 60 yrs. old and would like to enjoy life for a change, if you know what I mean. That's also why I'm looking forward to moving back to the "free world" where folks like I don't raise an eyebrow anymore. ¶ 1/23/2011 12:28:00 AM
