1st Prez Debate & Meat Processing Plant

I feel I didn’t sleep even for a moment. I feel so possibly because I really didn’t sleep even for a moment. I was thinking about the YouTube video of the first presidential debate I watched late last night (more than three weeks late).

Obama’s voice was strong and his diction clear while McCain was speaking like through a denture. McCain seems to me someone in the Reagan-Bush mold, and he is firmly pro-Israel. Obama said that America was “less respected” in the world but offered no explanation as to why. The U.S. is less respected because it is ready and willing to invade other countries and kill people to secure its energy resources, disregarding cultural and religious sentiments. The U.S. is less respected because it has been providing the most advanced killing machines to Israel, which is safeguarding the region for the U.S. During the debate, there was absolutely no mention of Saddam Hussein. Nor was there any mention of Japan either.

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And suddenly the following scenes of the dream I had the morning before came back to me.

数人（５人?10人？）といっしょで、場所は、「ここ、と畜場、えぇ、食肉加工場でしょ」。中にいた人が「そうですよ」と答えた。覗き見ると、加工作業中の人たちがいた。「You got very dirty areas and those that have to be very clean」と言うと、「そうですよ」と答えた人がうなずいた。

加工場は孤立したコミュニティーのようで、そこで働く人たちは強く結束しているようだった。部外者も迎え入れるが、仲間にすることはないという排他的な雰囲気が漂っていた。「いかいさん」がそこで働いていた。エレベーターボーイだった時の先輩だった「いかいさん」。言葉を交わすことはなかった。長年経っているのに、自分はまだエレベーターボーイのままで、気分が沈んだ。