Magick, Hermeticism, Art, and Naughtiness…

Injustice pisses me off the most, maybe because I’m a Libra.  There are five things about my country that gall me the most:

That the government and ISPs are attempting to ruin the freedom of the Internet.  ISPs throttle p2p networks saying that it’s used only for illegal downloads, and the government wants to spy on what we do on the Internet in the name of cracking down on “pedophiles” and “terrorists.”  Every generation has their bogeymen that the government uses to bully itself into more and more power.  “Communists” are out of style so now we have pirates, pedophiles, and terrorists.

That marijuana is illegal.  This is such a no-brainer I wonder what the hell is wrong with the United States that we are still locking up people for Marijuana, overcrowding our prisons, for something that is far less damaging to individuals and society than alcohol.  And remember how well things went when we tried making that illegal during prohibition.  People often spend more time in jail for minor drug offenses than for rape or murder.

That prostitution is illegal.   This especially pisses me off because porn is perfectly legal. Does anyone really think that porn is anything but a legalized form of prostitution? In other words it’s ok for a girl to get her “brains fucked out” on camera for a world wide audience and get paid for it, but if she does it one-on-one then it’s prostitution and she  should be locked up?  Yet another stupid thing we are clogging up our prisons with.

That we are still in Iraq. Do I need to say anything more?  As a sidenote, I wish I could stomp on Hummer owners with a stiletto heel.

That complacent Americans will get off their asses and protest China’s treatment of Tibet, while I don’t see anyone saying anything about giving land back to the Native Americans.  It’s absurd and hypocritical.  I don’t think anyone in America has the right to criticize China with our history of how we treated the Native Americans.  This same argument goes to all the money and effort we put into the state of Israel.  We gave them a homeland back after over 2600 years (8th-6th century BCE is when they were “kicked out”), essentially hijacking it from the Palestinians who have lived there in the mean time, but no one is lifting a finger to give any land back to the Native Americans who we stole their land only in the last few hundred years, and God forbid anyone in America say that maybe we should help out the Palestinians a little more too.

These are the big ones.  There are other things too, like our health care system, frivolous lawsuits, and how corporations behave in general, but I used up my anger for the day…;-)

So why don’t I rant and rave about these topics more often and in more detail?

Because I want to do my part, and I feel my part is to get people to focus on joy and beauty.  Sensual beauty is something that transcends cultural and ethnic boundaries.  Our focus determines our reality so I want to make sure I keep as many people focused on love as possible. 

That said, if anyone needs me to do any spokesmodel activity or other promotional work for legitimate activist groups regarding anything of these issues, please email and let me know.

Love is the Law,

Izabael DaJinn