It seems like hatred comes and goes in a similar manner to, surprisingly enough, fashion.

Back in the days of the cold war “commie”, “red”, “communist”, “soviet” and other similar nouns, adjectives and adverbs were used to define just about anything bad. The US government liked the term “communism” a lot, and was pretty much against anything even remotely ressambling communism.

Now there’s “terrorism”. It’s basically a term used to describe any sort of action that involves attacking you, pretty much. Not to say that it’s not an issue - it is, only it’s taken for more than what it really is among the public.

What do I mean by that? Well, I will allude to Bush’s “War against terrorism.” Wars are fought against countries, organisations and such, not against tactics. Terrorism isn’t centrelized. There’s no global terror comitee (non which I know of). It’s been used so much by the press that it became devoid.

Murder is not justified, even in the form of war. Especially when you’re targetting innocent civilians or vague concepts. How long will it take until the word “terrorist” would be used as a swear?

First of all, sorry for not writing for so long, a few people bugged me about this, and I realized that I should have at least posted something short like “today I bought a pet plant” (which I did actually, help me name it).

Anyway. Kawaii seems to be taking over. I’ve been to Israel last month and they have an Anime channel in there, and of course Pokémon (but that’s pretty standard). My idea was to replace different authority figures with nice smiley Kawaii figures. Koizumi is a good start, of course. Taking a look at his website, there’s a link on the right to an “E-mail magazine”. What’s going on here? Is Koizumi trying to make himself something like a pop figure? Hello Kitty style. Hello Koizumi. And there we have it. Kawaii politics.

I would personally feel much more guilty, from a dictator point of view, to bomb something if their leaders are so kawaii.