The big irony in world politics is that since China became a major and willing business partner for western countries like the USA, I haven’t seen many western politicians doing anything very important, at least openly, in order to help the Tibetan people in China, except maybe meeting with Dalai Lama a few times.

But that is nothing new, is it? The western countries, nowadays considered democracies, have been known to support all sorts of cruel third world dictators around the world even in recent history, not to mention the colonial times, if only those dictators have been willing to do business with them.

I hope that democracy, liberty & human rights would not be so much only empty words in the western politics, often only hiding the real leading values: money, money & money.

Nice to see she’s still making waves.

Take the Kosovo-case. Although it’s complicated and there are hate(with grounds in history) on both sides one thing is that Serbs are afraid that letting go of a part of their country is seen as as weakness. (Percived weakness that can lead to more instability.) Also: Kosovo was originally only filled with Serbs, the Kosovo-Albanians come from… Albania. It was during when the whole region was under Ottoman Empire that the Albanians moved in there since they where treated better than Serbs because the Albanians where muslims just like the Ottomans. (I’m probably missing a lot of details, but this is just a quick example and explenation.)

But yeah; Björk does fucking rule. She’s brave as hell and without knowing really enough about the Tibet-issue I think I support her on this. (I think she’s tough to just say a so controversial opinion in China regardless anyway, considering the status of free speech in that country.)

She’s also one of my favorite artists and number 6 on my last.fm. Play Dead is among the few songs that can actually make my cry. One of the abselutely beautifullest songs I know. (I’m gonna stop know, I could go about Björk forever….)

Stopped no, but less war yes.

Having large, united countries never stopped any wars.

Let’s come back to city-states like before.

Let’s come back to this time when each city were always fighting with their neighbor for supremacy.

Let’s people create their own state just because they don’t want to be associated with people not looking or thinking like them.

Let’s come back to a time were people were so divided that they were not able to defend themselves against bigger enemies.