the COLD WAR

The Cold War taught us Russian women were mannish, and devoid of sexual appeal, or thoughts. American movies convinced us the real enemy to our way of life was Communism, and Russia was the devil incarnate. As the propaganda told it color was not a part of the Russian image in the mainstreams of thought and rhetoric. Steel was the metal of the people, and hard gray was the color of Communism, and the Soviet Union. The Cold War created divisions and encouraged illogical thought into the minds of school age children and in place in curriculums nationwide were the justifications of our inconsistencies. The cold War was the white man's way of publicly masturbating.

The end of the Cold War was a desperate time for the War Department, and the attendant culture around it. To re-group and shunt to the side the notion of peace building or any other vocation outside of war we prepared for invasion, and tighter restrictions upon the American public's notion of freedom. Unable not to agitate and engage in war is part of a spirit deeply reflected in the now late great former major of New York city.

I was in one of my favorite places to smoke cigars in Washington DC watching CNN news, sharing laughs, jokes and conversations and passing the Hookah pipe around. On TV Piers Morgan was interviewing the mayor, and Mayor Koch expressed how appalled he was that the man up for Defense Secretary confirmation did not like, or believe in war! It was an astounding statement that caught my ear, but was insignificant, it seemed, to the other men assembled, and smoking in the shop.

Americans like to believe their stories irresponsibly. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.03.13

This picture of a Russian woman in the 21st century
shows the lingering imagery of our collective pasts.