Well, I just think if you're gonna masturbate, man...treat yourself right. Don't just drag yourself in there again and use yourself. Bring home flowers. How about a movie and a quiet dinner for one? And be coy with yourself, man. "I don't wanna!" "Aw c'mon honey...for me?" "S'all you ever think about!" One thing I never did was accept money from myself, man. I never bought any, boy! One time I caught myself with another hand. Never let your left hand know. Big trouble.

(c) GC

Today the so-called "own opinion" is fetishized, especially when it is not dangerous for political shepherds. Disunited people are much easier to manage, each individually is much easier to squeeze, than a united and organized force.

Every simpleton is taught the value of his personal opinion. At the same time, a palette of judgments beneficial to the ruling class has been created on key issues of economics and politics, and it is considered indecent to go beyond this. Pluralism is complemented by a fashion for liberal or nationalist ideology, thus “valuable personal opinions” are produced in line with the lack of alternatives to the domination of commodity-money relations, the capitalist mode of production and the class division of society. On essential issues, all "individualists" think the same way, as the "shepherds" suggest to them, and on unimportant particulars, chaos of illogical, senseless taste reigns supreme.

Short explanation on why I am mostly sick hearing "independent personal opinions" that are 99% copypasted from the mass media pages.

On October 31, 1973, one of the Japanese ministers appeared on television and asked the Japanese to use toilet paper more economically. It was perhaps the least successful performance of his life. The next day, November 1, hundreds of people lined up outside a supermarket in Osaka and bought all the toilet paper there. When it was reported on the news, other Japanese cities followed Osaka's example. Another official on November 2 tried to correct his colleague's mistake by assuring viewers that there was still a lot of toilet paper in Japan and asking them to calm down. It was like throwing kerosene into a fire. Thousands of people across the country rushed to stores and began stocking up on paper and paper napkins for years to come.

Harold Vernon Frolich, a 41-year-old Republican congressman who represented in Congress a wooded area in Wisconsin. He noticed that he has recently begun to receive complaints from his constituents about reduced wood pulp flow. Frolich released a document that indicated that the National Procurement Center had not granted a request for providing toilet paper to troops and officials. On December 11, the congressman made another, more serious statement: “The United States may face a serious shortage of toilet paper for several months ... We hope that we do not have to issue toilet paper by cards ... Regarding the shortage, this is not a joke, but a real problem, which could potentially affect every American. " These words became a spark from which panic flared up ...

Popular TV journalist Johnny Carson took up the congressman's words and joked about the toilet paper shortage on The Tonight Show: “Everyone knows that we are running out of products today,” he told 20 million viewers. - Have you heard the latest news? I am not kidding. I read about it in the papers. There is a shortage of toilet paper now! "

After that, millions of Americans rushed together to sweep toilet paper from store shelves. It didn't help that Carson announced the very next day that his words were just a joke and that he did not want to cause panic: the deficit continued.

So, it is not some recent thing that happened in spring and will happen again soon.

The fate that befell the once mighty Soviet Union is no more surprising than the fate of the 1792 republic in France, which befell it after 1815. In both cases, this turn of events was not inevitable - such inevitability has no real basis - and the story did not end in 1815 or 1989, or with the death of Mao Zedong and the victory of Deng Xiaoping in China. Don't be in a hurry. As I walked in the jungle on my aching knees, I tried to remember when I first heard the famous answer that Zhou Enlai supposedly gave in response to the question of what he thought about the outcome of the French Revolution.

• It's too early to say.

Many have argued that he didn't actually say that. I was going to ask him about it when we met, but somehow I didn't have to. Of course, this is the correct answer.

Jan Myrdal (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020)