I’m not social. I don’t care about Society with a capital S, I prefer the company of my few good friends, most of whom don’t Rate. Nonetheless, because I’m part of a rooted and privileged community I’m called upon now and then to put on linen and mingle with a better crowd and try and keep a smile on my face and my personality disorder at bay.
Thus I found myself at a benefit a few weeks ago at which a friend who is very social told me about a novel coming out by a friend of hers about Sarah Palin becoming president and the U.S. going Christian. I was quite interested in the novel. I collect these dystopian fantasies because they are so at odds with my experience. I DON’T think there’s going to be a Christian nation any time soon, I think the fundamentalist tide that brought Reagan in has long since crested and gone, and gay marriage is the law of the land, and a good thing too. There are lots of better things to worry about– for instance Islamophobia. But ever since I was little I heard these warnings about the Christian nation and the goyim oppressing us, which I now regard as paranoid and self-involved and worthy of being exploded.
After the benefit, my social friend got in touch to hook me up with the author, but when I looked into the book I determined that the author is not Jewish, so it was not my material, and I told my social friend as much.
Then the other day I went into the post office and she was there talking to a friend of hers and brought me into the conversation. It was all in the moment, i.e., I had not parked my personality disorder outside. So in the very next breath when the Christian nation was brought up, I said defiantly I am NOT interested in the Christian nation. Small patches of color appeared in her cheeks, but she rallied and said in a plucky voice, You should be; they wouldn’t be very nice to you! I said, It’s not going to happen. Sarah Palin was soundly rejected by the voters, she’s a joke. I’m much more concerned about the Zionist nation, which poses an actual threat to–
My friend backed away with a cracked smile, waving her hands in front of her face to indicate that she had had enough.
If you have a personality disorder you spend a lot of time in life in what a friend has called the FUCK FUCK FUCK! moment, in which you review your triumph and think how you might have done better. I can say that this time it hasn’t been that bad. I was very rude, and I regret that, but I made my position clear, and I’ll live with the consequences. As Emily Dickinson said, “The soul selects her own society Then shuts the door.” I don’t think anyone’s going to bug me anytime soon about the Christian nation.
Aw, you threw a temper tantrum. Aren’t you so important.
If she was your friend you couldn’t have broke it down better?
LOL….I think thats hilarious.
Let me say that even as a supposed Christian if the US ever declares or imposes a ‘official’ religion on this ‘mutt’ nation I’m outa here.
I dont care how ‘benevolent it might be or try to be toward others, it would never work.
Freedom would really be finished.
“I was quite interested in the novel. I collect these dystopian fantasies because they are so at odds with my experience.”
“I looked into the book I determined that the author is not Jewish, so it was not my material, and I told my social friend as much.”
Curious. Does this mean that such a book written by a goy will not have the impact within the more paranoid portion of the Jewish community as a similar book written by a Jew?
no, i don’t really see this as a your personality disorder. there’s order in your logic, the way i view it. because we talk about zionism out and the open here, it’s no more radical discussing the idea of zionism than it is christianity. but here’s a country and a people (americans) and your friend having no problem discussing (or openly arguing) the christian nation or the threat of one at a party or the post office or anywhere…and yet you mention the zionist nation and she acts like you’ve got a disease. this says more about american conditioning then any ‘dis’-order you might have.
seriously, think about it. and palin is all over zionism like flies on poop. why couldn’t she have openly defended her views right out in public like she was willing to jump in and defend them when it came to the idea of a christian nation? because…even talking about the zionist nation out in public is radical! what bs.
phil, had you not been de conditioned by years of discussing zionsim you could be just like her. but you’re not, you’ll voice your views, it’s her who has the disorder.
If the novel’s concept interested you, why would the fact that author was not Jewish suddenly make the novel unworthy of your interest?
Strange outburst. Why “defiantly” and not just “firmly”?
Huh. That’s a hell of a rejoinder.
IMO, you acted strangely… ;-) …and perhaps you even acted rudely, but your friend – as a friend – should have known better than to taunt(?) you with her “they wouldn’t be very nice to you” comment.
Hopefully she, too, experienced a FUCK FUCK FUCK! moment.