I can hardly tolerate communist idealists idiots!

At TUDelft, numerous lectures about diverse subjects take place, and are open to anyone who wants. Some of them are in english, so I took a look at them, and this one called my attention:

From the uper introduction, I was expecting an impartial analysis of the remainings of the hazardous influence of neo-marxism around te world in general, and in south america in particular, by Dr Eric B. Ross.

Instead, I found a Marx lover. Dr. Communist took an hour and a half to kiss Marxs' ass. He had read the complete written work of Karl Marx, he was absolutely indoctrinated.

Before I write about the things he said, I want to emphasize that this man is a doctor in anthropology, is the kind of communist that has a good education, hence I assume he belongs to the group of "the intelligent communists". In the following lines, I'll try to describe some of the "arguments" I can still remember that he used to criticize capitalism: (This is not literally what he said, just the ideas I can remember)

* Capitalism is constantly changing without control or direction. Communism attempted to give direction to human kind.

That is because history is the result of the actions of all individual humans, who are free. This attempt to give direction to human kind is nothing but an attempt to take control over the world, not very different of Hitler's dream.

* Around the world, the land production in the underdeveloped world has changed from food to things that can be selled to the developed world, like flowers that must be so perfect that they no longer seem natural. In Uruguay, food production has been switched to production of pig's food to sell to the Netherlands... yes, think about that the next time you eat pig's meet.

The world's food production capability is much greater (I think 4 times the F.R.) than the food requirements, and humans have other necesities rather than just food. What's wrong if there are people willing to pay for perfect flowers? Does this guy want a law against perfect flowers? He is just a control freak who can't let people live their lifes the way they want. About Uruguay's production, nobody forced the uruguaian people to sell pig's food, if they did it's obviously more convenient to sell pig's food, and with the money they get they can get not only food, but also clothing, housing, health, education, etc.

* If you analyse the aid given to the underdeveloped world by the International Monetary Fund and the InterAmerican Development Bank, the money does not go to feed the poor people, but rather to finance businesses.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat that day; teach him to fish (and give him money to buy a cane) and he'll eat every day; more over, he'll sell fish, expand the business, give job to other people, etc. I thought this was pretty obvious for someone with a PhD. I guess I was wrong.

* Revolutions are peacefull in essence: the violence in the russian revolution was caused due to the destruction of Russia by the capitalists nations during the world wars.

Oh, yeah? try to convince the Romanov about that. Oh, wait. All communist revolutions are violent, or do you think you can go to a business owner and tell him "Would you like to give away the work of your whole life to the people, so you won't have anywhere to live in or from?" Do you think he is going to answer "OK, it'll be good for the cause"? The only means to achieve communism are theft and, if necessary, murder.

I wanted so bad to take the word and say something, but I knew that I would probably make a mess. Not being happy with this, latter I got the idea to write him an e-mail. Since it would take me too long to refute all what he said, and since I know that indoctrinated communists don't listen to logic or reason, I tried to appeal to his emotions:

"Dear dr Ross:

I attended the lecture you offered on Speakers this monday about Karl Marx. I must confess, I was expecting another kind of lecure: an impartial analysis about Neo-Marxism in today's world. However, I think I still have some valuable points of view to offer given my condition, which I'll explain init's moment.

I'm very sorry I didn't talk about this on Speakers, but I was afraid that, inthe middle of my passion, I would say something inconvenient. Again, I justwant to offer my point of view.

I must say I disagree with you about almost everything you said on your speech, I think you got wrong conclussions from distortioned facts, for example, when blaming capitalism for the lack of jobs of color people in the US: I think racism is not intrinsic to an economic system (except in the caseof fascism and nazism), it depends on the attitude of each person. I could discuss for hours every detail of your speech, but I think I have a much more important issue to offer.

At some point of your speech (and forgive me if I'm inaccurate) you talked about how someone was talking to Marx about economic facts and figures, and he answered "look at the people, get to the ground". As far as I could learn, you have lived in the United States, studied Marx work, analysed facts through the world that support you critic of the capitalist system and, correct me if I'm wrong, never lived a revolution? maybe never lived in a communist country? So I think I can "flesh things up" a little bit.

I'm a citizen of the Republic of Chile, (as you probably know) my country has suffered, and is still suffering some of the consequences of a communist government that took place between 1970 and 1973 and that tried to drag the country to a communist constitution through a revolution. I must say, it was not a "utopia", and it was not peaceful. The families of both my father and my mother lost almost everything they had, the result of the work of not just decades but generations, from one day to another, and they were lucky they didn't got murdered in the process. To make my point clear, I will now describe four stages in the chilean economic system that took place from the 60's to the present time:

1.- The 60's: In this period, Chile was mainly an agricultural country, with asocial structure that was very similar to the middle ages: land owners that provided the workers not only work, but also food, housing, sometimes even education for their children, and the promise of assured work for him and his children once they became adults. It was not fair if you ask me: the one who was borned poor died poor, and who was borned rich died rich, but ironically the result was very similar to your utopia: most of the production was food, everyone received what they need, we lived in peace and harmony, and a verystrong feeling that joined us all: we were proud of being chileans.

2.- 1970-1973: In 1970, a communist president was elected with a little bitmore than one third of the votes: Salvador Allende. Communist propaganda and an agricultural reform had took place in the previous years. The communist and socialist partys wanted to change the situation described in the previous paragraph, and started to expropiate the lands of the landowners to split them and give them to the workers. As this process began to take place, many workers began to lose patience and take the situation in their own hands: they took control of farms, made "courts of the people" to judje the landowners, and asked them to leave their home and their lands; if they refused, they offen burned his house with him and his family inside. My parents saw their friends of their childhoods now willing to murder the people who took care of them. The workers didn't know to manage farms, thus, the production of food decreased (a lot); the (communist) government freezed the prices and artificially raised the salaries, so suddenly there was almost no food (or anything, like toilet paper) available, the scarce available food was reserved for the members of the communist party. The government also began to associate with terrorists, Cuba and Russia, and began to bring weapons from this countries to supply the terrorists. There was violence on the streets: armed gangs of red helmets cutting the heads of the peatons, many important authorities were murdered (including the army's commander in chief); the civil population was claiming the army for intervention, the country was divided andon the edge of a civil war. Finally, the congress declared the government inconstitutional, thus general Pinochel proceed with his duty and took control with a state strike.

3.-1974-1989: General Pinochet declared a state of siege, and finished with the communist insurrection. There were violations to the terrorist's human rights. You may found easy to criticize this situation, but from the local point of view there were not many choices: the destiny of 9 millions of chileans were at stakes. He soon realized of the convenience of the capitalist system and in 1980 the chilean people aproved the new proposed constitution. The country took a huge step: the economy grew, the unnemployment was insignificant, the country modernized, there were opportunities: for the first time in Chile people who were borned poor could become rich. At the end of this period, Pinochet offered the chilean people to give away his power and return to democracy, and the people accepted. Pinochet received a country in ruins and violence, and returned one rebuilt, peaceful and prosperous.

4.-1990-2006: From then until now, we've been living in a relavitely prosperous democracy, but the working class has been continously indoctrinated: the professors of the public schools are all communist, like artist and actors. Therefore communism is still in people's mind, and people have been electing presidents that are more and more from the left, who have done nothing but stop the economic development and the erradication of poverty and unnemployment by increasing taxes and regulations. The wounds of the past prevail, people still does't trust capitalism; unlike the US, if someone succeeds, he is seen with eyes of untrust and hate.

I fear that in the next decade caos will arrise again in Chile. Communist revolutions cannot be peacefull, because they're based on an ideology of hate against anyone who has more than the rest, and nothing good comes out of hate. Communism promotes robbery and murder. It also tries to put absolute control of a country under the hands of one man, enslaving the population."

I soon got an answer that was encoded in a system communists use to distortion the truth and said their terrible ideas with pretty words, so I decided to use my experience in talking with commies to write a translation, of each sentence, in square parenthesis:

"I won't reply to your many points [I can't refute the logic of your main ideas, so I'll concentrate on stupid details]. But, I have visited various "communist" countries; all of them have achieved notable things in the face of great odds, but, as in the case of Cuba, never had the opportunity to realize their full potential [I have seen many communists countries that were succesfull on being communists, but I'll be damned If I had to live like those lost souls, so I've lived in capitalists countries, were I can earn more money and live like a human being]. Chile, however, was not even such a country. It didn't have a revolution. Allende was a socalist --not a communist-- who was freely elected [I don't understand the way democracy works; I think a president is an elected king; I don't know about the executive, legislative and judicial branches; I don't know that the president must respect the law and the constitution, therefore I can't understand why you talk about a revolution if Allende was already president]. But, we know that, even before those elections, the U.S. was already plotting to subvert his government, should he eventually be elected [If anything bad happened, it was fault of the evil capitalist USA]. Chile, at the time, was obviously far more advanced that most of its South American neighbors, but there was great inequality and poverty; and Allende did begin to remedy this [Someone told me this lie, and I'm too stupid/lazy to understand/read your e-mail or learn about the truth about chilean history]. I was nearby, in Peru, when Pinochet bombed La Moneda and Allende was killed and a fascist government was installed [I know better than you because I saw the bombing of La Moneda on television; some guy told me that Pinochet was the bad guy]. And it's shameful that, years later, you should condone that [You are a bad person because you haven't been indoctrinated and don't think like me]. Whatever else you may think, Allende stood for the interests and aspirations of the most deserving majority of Chile's people [I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, because I don't know that Allende was elected with a little more than one third of the votes, even when you told me so]."

This guy is amazing: he is trying to teach me about my own country, about things that he know nothing about. I don't know if I want to laugh or cry, I feel insulted. That's why I wrote him again:

"Well, since you are trying to teach me about my own country, I will take the time to reply to your points.

1.-OK, so some communist countries have achieved a good health system and education for free, but are their populations happy? What if a cuban has a dream, let's say, he wants to be an aviator? The central govermnet will probably say to him "sorry, you'll be a taxi driver" and give him no chance to try to achieve what he wants. These people can hardly be happy because they have no freedom. Otherwise, how do you explain the hordes of cubans who are willing to cross an ocean infested of sharks in a bathtub, while the developed capitalistic countries receive wave after wave of immigrants?

2.-Chile DID have a revolution, my parents lived it, I thought the point was clear, but I'll have to explain it. The socialists and the communists were allied, and they were both willing to achieve power through violence; Allende received weapons from Fidel Castro, and tried to completely destroy private property by expropiating everything that was private. Allende was freely elected... with a 36.2% of the votes. Once he got in power, he began to give weapons to left groups to begin a civil war and destroy the constitution. If you don't think that is a revolution (communist or not), then I don't know what your idea of revolution is.

3.-The US contribution to the chilean crisis is insignificant compared to what was made by Allende and his followers: the former was limited to support atruck drivers strike.

4.-Allende achived nothing when trying to erradicate poverty, rather, he transformed almost everyone into poor people. It was Pinochet who made this possible.

5.-Allende was not killed, he killed himself. The communists said he was murdered by Pinochet to discredit him, but now even them recognize that he committited suicide.

6.-Pinochet was not fascist: he didn't persecute people of a certain race, religion, or even the way they think (proof of that is that during his government you could see in Chile communist magazines), rather, he persecuted people who were trying to begin an armed revolution, who committed terrorist attacks and assasination.

7.-Allende stood for the interests and aspirations... of 36.2% of the chilean people. You clearly never saw the protests of the women with their cooking pots for food to feed their children."

To what he answered:

"Please. I really don't want to get involved in a debate with you."

Translation: [I answered to your first e-mail because I thought I could win a debate against you, now that I realize how much your arguments rule and how much I suck, I'll pretend that I don't want to get involved in a debate with you; your efforts were in vain because we, communists, don't listen to the voice of reason and logic].

If this is how smart are the "smart communists", imagin how stupid are the average ones... . I don't feel very comfortable speaking so bad about a person who doesn't have a public life, but this man was asking for it by talking with no caution about things he knew nothing about. Some communist chilean expelled from Chile tells this kind of "citizens of the developed world" that Allende was the good guy, Pinochet the bad guy, and they think they know it all. They know nothing, they make me sick!

Tolstoi's War and Peace

Following JA The Observer's advice, when I came to the Netherlands I brought with me Tolstoi's War and Peace, which I finished before my trip to the UK.

The book is great, although Tolstoi continuously presents his theory about history and it's great characters. This theory is in part true, but it's exasperating how much does he pauses the plot and insists in this, one time after another, specially at the epilogue, when there's more theory than story.

Take that out and the book is great. The plot follows three fictitious russian families: the Rostov, the Bolkonski and the Bezujov through the napoleonic wars (from 1805 to 1815).

This book touches the subjects of death, love, the search of goals through life and it's meaning, life's disappointments, the truth about eroism in war, combat leadership, practice and theory, and administrative responsability.

The combination between fiction and reality is very well accomplished, since fictitious characters participate in historic events but don't influence them. In this way is very easy for the reader to distinguish fiction from reality.

The autor also provides historic introductions at the begining of some chapters, which helps the reader to understand in a better way the background of the plot and also allows him to learn history.

This book earned the Twister's Choice for best book of the (19th) century.

Roberto's Birthday and Scarface

Yesterday was an important day: it was mother's day, Roberto's Birthday, and the Grand Prix took place in Barcelona. So we decided to have launch together, offered by Giovanni and Salvatore. Lars, Max, and of course Roberto also came to our place.

Salvatore and Giovanni cooked some delicious "sea fruits" with pasta, salad and some fish. We had also south-african, italian, and chilean wine. Then, for dessert we had capuccino icecream and cake. Unfortunately for Giovanni, Schumacher arrived on second after Alonso this time.

After the race, we celebrated Roberto with "espumosa".

After everyone was gone, in the afternoon, Giovanni invited me to watch Scarface (which I had never seen before) in his room (dvd's and videogames can be realy cheap in the Netherlands). So I brought my leather couch to Giovanni's room; we kind of looked like this:

The movie was great. Here there are some memorable lines, and some images:

"This is paradise, I'm tellin' ya. This town like a great big pussy jus' waitin' to get fucked." (Tony to Manny)

"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman." (Tony to Manny)

"You tell your guy in Miami -- your friend -- I kill a Communist for fun, but for a greencard I'm gonna carve'm up real nice" (Tony to Manny)

"I neva fucked anybody over in my life, who didn't have it comin' to 'im, you got that? All I have in this world is my balls, and my word, and I don't break 'em for no one, jou understand?" (Tony to Sosa)

"Orders? You giving me orders? Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. Balls. You got that?" (Tony to Frank)

"Every dog has his day, huh, Mel?"

"Whattaya lookin' at? You're all a bunch of fucking assholes. You know why? 'Cause you don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fucking fingers, and say "that's the bad guy." So, what dat make you? Good? You're not good; you just know how to hide. Howda lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth--even when I lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy. Come on; the last time you gonna see a bad guy like this, let me tell ya. Come on, make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through; you better get outta his way!"

Say hello to my little friend!

How jou like that, eh!

Man! After that, I seriously considered to buy the latest version of "Grand Theft Auto". Seriously.

U.K. Tour and Koninginnedag

I must warn you: lots of things happened, so this is an extremely large post. There are also lots of photos that look like shit because of unavoidable negative light conditions.

First of all, a couple of images that shows the reunions we usually have around the F1 racing and italian dinners.

Giovanni, Lars, Camilla and Max.

Watching the San Marino race in Max's. Try to guess which is Giovanni's favorite team.

Parting in the Netherlands:

Koninginnenacht:

The night before the Koninginnedag, a celebration known as the Koninginnenacht (this time, April 28) takes place. My friends and I decided to go to Den Haag. They went by train, but it's so close that I decided to go by bicycle.

I was expecting some party in a particular place, but I found people and party everywere in the city. Only then I could visualize how heavily populated is this country.

It took some time, but we finally meet with Giovanni and Salvatore.

There were some awesome babes, unfortunately, I couldn't get better images.

Koninginnedag, Amsterdam:

Since April 30 was sunday, this year the Koninginnedag was celebrated on April 29. We decided to go by train to Amsterdam (where all the dutchs go on this day), but since I had to prepare my bag for a longer trip, I arrived late to the station, where Giovanni and Roberto decided to wait for me. I packed clothing for seven days, my camera, cheap food (pasta, ham sanwiches, coke, milk, bread and jam) and personal hygiene tooling.

A nice view on the way.

The train was realy crowded with orange people. I learned later that in this day, nobody pays the train ticket, because it's impossible for the ticket checker to walk through the wagons with all those people.

Once we were there, Giova and Roberto began to look for something orange to buy and wear:

I suggested to go to the Museumplein (you can check it on the map) because it's a great place to sit and stay, and a perfect place for a concert. I was right.

Wow, check out that babe! Later in this place, I got separated from Giove and Roberto: they had to go back to Delft, and I had to stay (I had tickets for the UK and Warsaw).
Instead of the very nice, quiet dutchs, who wouldn't kill an ant, that I was used to see until now, here I found a crowd of crazy perverts with crazy orange hats, it was really cool.
On the celebration of the national holidays, I would expect traditional food, music, dance and clothing. Instead, the dutchs wear orange cow-boy hats and dance with tecno-music.

Fedde and me.

A couple of dutch guys (Fedde and Kees) invited me a beer, and offered me an alcoholic conversation, which I accepted. They explained me that since germans and french refuse to learn english, the dutchs are forced to learn english, german and french. Fedde speaks also latin and greek, that is a total of 6 languages (in school, he is not studing to be a translator). Many other dutchs friends joined the conversation later.

Since there was no place in any hostel, I had to sleep in the Vondelpark. My dutch friends told me that I would usually got arrested if I was caught by the police, but because there would be so much drunks drifting around this night, I had nothing to fear. The night was a little cold, but I was prepared for that, I brought with me lots of clothings.

The next day there were still events, but no crazy parties anymore.
I saw this really cool game, (10 euros the ride) similar to bungy jumping. The participants gets microphones, so everybody can hear their screams.
I can still hear the screams of a couple of dutch girls, whom you can see in the picture below, after their ride, haha.
Later, I went to the mall, where they were giving away orange candys for free. In the evening, I went to the Shiphol airport, which ended being a great place to sleep: it was warm, and it was possible to lay down across the seats. The next morning (monday, may 1st) I was ready to go.

Girls Conclusions:

Dutch Girls are very beautyfull. I think the average is 4 stars (see The Tucker Max Female Rating System).

The United Kingdom:

Edinburgh, Scotland:

When I got out of the plane, my watch ran out of battery, so I depended from my mobile phone, which was also running out of battery, which was a problem because the U.K. has a different king of electric fit. Edimburg is really cool: lots of castles and tradition. Everithing on this city yells "this is scotland, we are proud of being scotish".

East Princes Gardens.

National Gallery of Scotland, entrance free.

Edinburgh Castle.

I entered this place and bought a scarf as a souvenir. The traditional clothing is very expensive: the skirts cost at least 50 punds (1 euro = 0,7 punds). The weather was great.

I left my luggage in a hostel called Calledonian Backpackers, close to this church. I thought The Netherlands was an expensive country, but the U.K. is even more expensive.

Edinburgh Castle.

View from Edinburgh Castle.

Castlehill Lawnmarket

Scotish music next to St Giles Cathedral.

The Palace of Holyroodhouse.

College of Edinburgh.

My souvenirs: a key ring and a scarf.

In the evening I made a lots of german friends in the hostel: they invited me to drink vodka with orange juice and play "UNO".

Girls Conclusions:

Here, the girls are not so tall as dutch ones, and tend to be less thin, however, they are very nice in personality. Instead of being blue eyed blonds as the dutchs, the scotish girls are browned haired and eyed. I give the average scotish girl 3 stars (see The Tucker Max Female Rating System).

Belfast, Northern Ireland:

The day I arrived Belfast (May 2nd) it was raining really bad. I think I had never seen so much water falling from the sky in such asmall period of time. Thus, I couldn't take any pictures. I made friends with an australian, a japanese, and three US'. The australian taught me how to sucsesfully use the U.K. electric fit to recharge my mobile phone and my camera.

There wasn't much to see in Belfast, even the souvenirs sucked. However, the hostel was very cheap.

The City Hall.

The clock Tower.

Girls Conclusions:

In Belfast, the girls I saw were, in average, fatter than scotish girls, though there were notable excemptions. Sometimes they are red haired, but this girls are still not common. I give the average girl 2 stars ( see The Tucker Max Female Rating System).

London, England:

London is amazing, there is so much to see that, fearing that Warsaw could potentially be as boring as Belfast, I decided to sacrifice my flight to Poland in order to stay more time in London.

Deciding what to do in St James's Park.



Westminster Abbey.

Protest in front of the Parliament.

London Eye.

Right after I took the picture above, I was waiting for the green light to cross the Westminster Bridge, when a motorized cop stopped at the crossing, I didn't undersand why. When the light turned green, I stepped forward and the cop yelled me a "Hey", so I stepped backards and, confused, saw Tony Blair passing through in his car.

I did what I could to get a good picture of the Houses of Parliament.

The englished liked me so much that they decided to create a meal after me!

The Imperial War Museum.

Southwark Cathedral.

Tower Bridge and the HMS Belfast.

Tower Bridge.

Tower of London.

I walked the whole afternoon with my 15 kg bag on my back to see the Tower Bridge, so at the end it was late, and I was very far from any park. In London the weather was so warm that I had decided to sleep in St James's Park, where it's allowed to.

Swiss RE Tower.

St Paul's Cathedral.

Royal Courts of Justice.

Statue of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, responsible for the British victory in the Battle of Britain, WWII.

Finally, I made it to the park, and slept much better than in the park in Amsterdam, since it was not very cold. The next morning I decided to take pictures of the places I failed to because of negative light conditions, and go to a couple of museums. London has some of the bests museums in the worls, and they are for free!

Old Admiralty and the Horse Guards Parade.

Guards Memorial. The U.K. has 5 Foot Guards regiments: Grenadiers, Coldstreams, Scots, Irish and Welsh.

The Buckingham Palace.

Admiralty Arch.

Trafalgar Square. Unfortunately, Nelson's Column was under maitnenance.

Horse Guards.

Houses of the Parliament.

Then, I entered the Imperial War Museum, wich was amazing. If I had more time, I could had spent a hole day in there.

Interiors of a submarine replica.

The trench experience of WWI:

Later, I walked a lot again, to see the British Museum:

The age of enlightment.

Rosette Stone.

The museum's central court.

After that, I walked even more torwards the Marble Arch and the Hyde Park, which is huge, more than 2 square kilometers:

Italian Gardens.

Kensington Palace.

South Flower Walk.

There are lots of squirrels in this place.

Albert Memorial (front) and Royal Albert Hall (back).

Wellington Arch.

WWI memorial.

Since the Hyde Park is closed at 20:45 hrs, I had to go back to St James's Park. The next morning I was resting from all the walking next to the park's lake, when I heared some military march and a crowd following some red uniforms: it was the ceremony of Changing the Guard of the Buckingham Palace, which takes place at 11:30am.

After the military marchs, the band played some themes from the Beatles, like "Yesterday" and "Michelle".




I coudn't leave without souvenirs. I bought the metal soldiers in Trafalgar Square at 5 pounds each. Then I went to the Luton Airport to spend the night and catch my flight at 4:00am.

Girls Conclusions:

The average english girl is very nice (personality), but is not very beautifull at all. However, it's common to se concentrations of very beautifull girls (4 stars) once in a while, because it's a big city with a lot of people. I give the average english girl 1 star (see The Tucker Max Female Rating System).

At the end, of the seven nights I spent in the trip, I spent 2 at hostels, 2 at airports and 3 at parks. The night that I didn't spend at hostels, I tried to sleep 8 hours, but I only succesfully slept 4 hours. Man, I should write a book about homeless travel!

When I was back in my room in Delft in the morning of saturday, may 6, I was so tired that I lied on my bed. I thought: "mmmh, I could really use some sleep, but it's midday, I'll never going to fall aslee.... zzzzzzz".