Oil price hike

How much more aggravation people can bear is what the plutocrats, the oil tycoons are about to test. Prices are rising steadily over the speculation of nuclear conflict in the Mid East. Iran’s nuclear program spurs Israel’s qualms. Simultaneously, global economy giants such as China or India are haggling over a discount for Iranian oil in light of the recent sanctions on Iran. Sanctions though in effect, seem to have their enforcement lingering. Hence, the US have left their option open and may follow suit ripping off Iran on prices consequently. In light of the above why on earth are we to pay more day after day while they are buying the crude for lowered prices?

Billy Green Bush and Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Weak economy is their imminent response. Yeah, when the economy sucks you can get away with any shit. Blame it on the deteriorating financial circumstances and this cannot yield any media caveat. White collars need your money to stabilize the economy.

When crippled economy argument needs backing you hear about the conflict. Independent Iran is now the center of this mayhem. Having been left with nuclear facilities built by the US agencies during the cold war, they have as an independent country a legitimate right to develop their technology – US legacy in this case. Israel fears that atrocities they have caused in Gaza and West Bank may sooner or later have its backlash in the Mid East. The threat of would-be shrinking oil supplies prompts oil prices surge.

To make your mouth shut, they frighten you with the nuclear disaster. Be docile or we all gonna perish. If one country nuked the other, the repercussions could be overwhelming for half of the globe.

At the end of the day, paying more for fuel on a gas station is supposed to heal the crippled economy and miraculously save the world from nuclear disaster. It’s not that plutocracy is lining up their pockets, they are actually saving us from human disaster. Shan’t you obey, take it to the streets. Mind you, you have to be quick or the streets might have been swept away.

Prostitution or sponsorship

Prostitution has been prevalent since the outset of civilization, hence no wonder why it is dubbed the oldest profession.  Sponsorship, on the other hand, according to Collins Dictionary is an act of providing funds in exchange for an activity of commercial or charitable character. Although the 2006 eighth edition of the dictionary does not include any sexual facet of sponsorship, the word’s usage had displayed one years before its production. Only recently has it come to the fore in the media. Sponsorship has become an euphemism for prostitution denoting additional features such as independence from pimps and self-reliance. Modern world justifies sexual sponsorship by a means of how media depicts sexuality. Most of all, the responsibility for moral deterioration hinges on men and their voracious sexual appetite. Therefore, unless people ensnare their sexual desiderata, the festered morality problem will not abate.

Firstly, sponsorship is an independent way of living. Money obtained through sponsorship helps the subjects reach financial autonomy and self-reliance as long as they cope with intrinsic moral issues. Superficially, sponsorship, or prostitution if you will, is a combination of business and pleasure. Nevertheless, our day does not revolve solely around money and sex. There are emotional or psychical pleasures and intellectual or physical labor. The problem, hence, is with culture which prompts our choices.



a fine line between good and evil

 Had it not been for the media, we would not have this image of hectic life and carpe diem assumptions encouraging sexual openness and spreading pornography. On the other hand, but for the media, we would wallow in backwardness. The problem is that animal instinct lurks in each of us and suppressing it through, say, religious obedience is certainly not a good idea. However, promoting it because it galvanizes interest, sells advertisement space, and consequently provides profits is also not the desired solution. Only through constant reading and researching people develop culturally and morally. Hence, literature and poetry are like a spiritual revelation only it does not involve no guru’s debauchery. Reading enables us a variety of choices. It also evinces that a hectic life can simply slower its pace and the rush for animal pleasures devalues.

Another important factor is that of who is actually responsible for incandescing the bonfire. Prima facie, women are to blame for this situation but they are not alone at the scene of the crime. Although Eve had tempted Adam, it was him who sinned and led to the expulsion from paradise. It is just an allegory representing these men – the punters – who are responsible for the phenomenon of sexual sponsorship. They pay. This is what makes the mechanism work. It does not mean that if men fled after a sexual intercourse without paying life would be better. It means that if men were emotionally mature, they would not perpetuate sponsorship. Without that cog the machine would fall apart.

Hence, at the end of the day it seems that the power to shape culture with all its mechanisms is in our hands. The media are to interfere and distract people but ultimately a fully-fledged intellectual mind can find its own way out. Sponsorship will last as long as our animal desires prevail over emotions and psychic. To change the morally deteriorated situation everyone needs a thorough revolution of the self and spiritual epiphany. Men should reflect on their contribution to women’s prostitution as a matter of fact. Moreover, both men and women should stop failing to recognize literature and poetry as invalid sources of information giving in simultaneously to online chitchat-dating-rubbish and pornography.