A Possibly Interesting Conflict Over an Imperial Sausage

I have just heard on BBC International, so I suppose I can expect it is not just a rumor, that the Republic of Slovenia has recently been engaged in a food fight with the Republic of Austria with throwing around legal terms around a presumably delightfully tasting sausage, named by the Slovenians Krainer Wurst, and by the Austrians Kaesekrainer.

It seems that the Republic of Slovenia is seeking “protected geographical indication status” for this “krainer” type of sausage, claiming it is a traditional Slovenian one, being traditionally produced in the Northern Slovenian region since the times of the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while the Austrians are indignantly claiming that this type of “krainer”-containing sausage not only MEANS a different kind of sausage, because theirs contains cheese, while the Slovenians’ does not, (containing only minced meat and garlic), but even the NAME itself of this sausage is THEIRS to claim if anyone should claim it. And being faced with this NEW claim in their likely already overflowing to the brim Claim Inbox tray, the EU has given them 6 months to try to resolve their differences by themselves, like any 6th grader should, or ELSE it may have to make a judicial ruling itself on this claim.

I have tried to find out what the heck does “krainer” mean, and I have found that there exists a region named once by the Italians, at the time of the Holy Roman Empire, Carniola, which was later named, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kranjska, in Slovenian and Krain, in German. This region, which also has a capital-city named once Laibach, and now Ljubljana, is also divided in 3 sub-regions, Upper Carniola, Lower Carniola, and Inner Carniola…I have NO idea why this particular region seems to lack a visibly necessary Outer Carniola as well, and I feel actually somewhat bothered by this possible evidence of lack of suburban spirit.

AHA ! A social CLASS conflict accesible to my common run-of-the-mill marxist understanding emerges now, with the help of…who/what else, but Wikipedia ! It seems that in this particular region from the year 900 AD onwards until the dawn of the 20th century, when Mr. (serious, non-Groucho) Marx managed to explain what a Class Conflict is at the level of our common folk popular understanding, the language spoken by the Ruling Class of this region, most of them Aristocrats, later also most Urban folk, was German, while most of the Peasants from over there spoke Slovene, (NOT to be confused with Slovak, spoken about 150 miles, or about 250 km, to the North-East of there).

Since I do not particularly like long-term Brewing Conflicts, often preferring to offer other possibly conflicting people(s) the suggestion to “put it out/whip it out, eventually on a table, and getting over it ASAP”, to everyone’s satisfaction, (including, most certainly, my own), I have thought of a possibly useful suggestion for the EU contest-judges which may be puzzled as to how they might equitably resolve this claim. I suggest to them to first make up their minds in regards to promoting & implementing Affirmative Action as a temporary principial manner of policy or not, (inclusing for how long), then, according to this principle, deciding who gets satisfaction based on the average penis size of the inhabitants of those particular regions or countries, most recently, (about 4 months ago), having been publcly announced that the people residing in Slovenia have it on average 5.96 inches, (15,13 cm), long, while the inhabitants of Austria on average 5.58 inches, (14,16 cm), long, (or relatively short, according to one’s possibly length-as-quality seeking perspective).

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An “Aha !” moment

Since I am so uneducated in what pertains to modern political matters, plus I am still hung up on my former experience as an Old Cold War intelligence veteran, (always continually struggling to reconcile or, better said, to integrate the views of my personal liaison animae with the ones of my personal shadow, in a more mature & optimally functional age appropriate “whole” sense of self geolocation, while at the same time I am conscientiously attempting to become a better functioning & ethical professional intelligence double agent, an always useful profession or career choice, IMHO, especially in view of the current ongoing New Cold War !), I have been struggling in this past year to understand what is really going on in Scandinavian politics & society, and how in the world can it be possible that communism can actually work in day to day life, and how long will it be until reality inevitably sets in, and the end of the world might actually happen, because we may have reached the bottom of the barrel when it comes to exploring the various possibilities in which modern democratic politics can actualise themselves in a practical useful manner for the continued perpetual optimisation of the individual manners in which we all strive these days to fulfill our daily duties towards accomplishing our final purpose in life, which is our desirable continued survival as a, preferably, for the most time and for as many of us as possible, happy and sated, Homo Sapiens sapiens species on our Planet Earth !  

I absolutely MUST give thanks to the professional writers American Mary Gabriel and Norwegian Stian Landgaard because I have an intuitive feeling/conviction that somehow, perhaps by lucky coincidence, both of them were there, on the sidelines, supporting me and cheering me on, as I was struggling to reach a temporary conclusive and preferably optimistic finish line appropriate for my current level of general knowledge.

My groundbreaking, (for myself), thought about the actual non-violent implementability of the ideals of classical communism in our modern society, as demonstrated as quite possible in current day Scandinavia, is that it is essential for all the daydreamy or nostalgic, thus yet still unsatisfied, classical left European supporters to absolutely erase from their mind any know-how and preconception they may have attempted to begin to formulate post 1968, and to learn ASAP how to implement American, (NOT European !), realpolitik principles in their day-to-day operations and even core ideology. In addition to that, a brief course of cognitive psychotherapy for the general public wouldn’t hurt to ease the transition. In Scandinavia, for a variety of reasons, mostly administrative-budgetary mindful, they seem to have preferred the British procured more protracted way to use object relations theory based psychodynamic psychotherapy, (an offshoot of classical psychoanalytic theory based types of psychodynamic psychotherapies, which necessarily arose, on both sides of the Pond, as either posttrauma reactions or spin diversions throughout the aftermath of WW II), alongside other directly supportive mostly domestic economic policy related methods, in order to ease their nordic style implementation, and, only now, faced with some red flag level warnings of some rumors about the economic crises from the rest of Europe, they are scrambling to educate the larger general public about the advantages of briefer types of psychoterapies, especially of the practical, and more cost effective, plus possibly more efficacious anyway, cognitive type, although it is done still quite gently and in an organised disciplined fashion, mostly by the mass-media, which does take its role as behavioral shaping public (re)educator quite seriously here, in order not to unduly disturb the peace of mind of lifelong tenured academics, which are pretty much the only ones, (mistakenly, IMHO), believed, around here, to be capable of possibly generating any waves of unpleasant public disturbance.

Now that I have eased my mind of any possible anxieties about the World Population reaching 7 billion exactly on Halloween, (14 billion if we superstitiously and compulsively-conscientiously count all possible doppelgangers), I, for myself, always situated in the precise center of any possible world, can finally announce that Freud and Jung CAN be and ARE in fact again friends in my mind, and so are Klein and Horney, Kohut and Kernberg, to a certain extent Sartre and Camus,  even, who knows, perhaps Aristotle and Plato as well, certainly Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and I can also happily and candidly predict World Peace, NOT World Destruction for 2012, AND report on a possible reconciliatory integrative cure for the yet uncertain yet culturally significant, thus, just in case, still listed, malady still named Multiple Personality Disorder in Europe, and Dissociative Identity Disorder, now, in the USA: perennial classical psychoanalytic theory neorealistically and economically mindfully adapted for brief duration ethical delivery in the XXI-st century mass communication service industry !

Messages to the World from Norway

 

The Unavoidable Proust Questionnaire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proust_Questionnaire

Confessions Questions   Confidence Questions   My answers 2011

Your favorite virtue	The principal aspect of my personality	Conscientiousness
Your favorite qualities in a man.	The quality that I desire in a man.	A beautiful cock
Your favorite qualities in a woman.	The quality that I desire in a woman.	The ability to be authentically maternal
Your chief characteristic	—-	Vanity
What you appreciate the most in your friends	What I appreciate most about my friends.	I don’t have any friends
Your main fault	My main fault	Gluttony
Your favourite occupation.	My favorite occupation.	My job
Your idea of happiness	My dream of happiness.	Sucking Hector’s cock
Your idea of misery.	What would be my greatest misfortune?	Not ever being able to suck Hector’s cock
If not yourself, who would you be?	What I should like to be.	Hephaestion (Alexander the Great’s best friend)
Where would you like to live?	The country where I should like to live.	Portugal or Costa Rica
Your favourite colour and flower.	My favourite colour.	Blue
—-	The flower that I like.	Violet
—-	My favorite bird.	Sparrow
Your favorite prose authors.	My favorite prose authors.	Gustave Flaubert
Your favorite poets.	My favorite poets.	Don’t have any
Your favorite heroes in fiction.	My heroes in fiction.	Indiana Jones
Your favorite heroines in fiction.	My favorite heroines in fiction.	Yentl
Your favorite painters and composers.	My favorite composers.	Chagall, Mozart
—-	My favorite painters.	see above
Your heroes in real life.	My heroes in real life.	Mr. George Tenet
Your favorite heroines in real life.	—-	Ms. Janet Reno
What characters in history do you most dislike.	—-	Hitler
Your heroines in World history	My heroines in history.	Queen Christina of Sweden
Your favorite food and drink.	—-	Don’t have any
Your favorite names.	My favorite names.	David, Alexander
What I hate the most.	What I hate most of all.	Psychopaths
World history characters I hate the most	Historical figures that I despise the most.	Hitler
The military event I admire the most	The military event that I admire most.	The capture of Usamah bin Ladin
The reform I admire the most	The reform which I admire the most.	Gay partnership with exactly same rights as heterosexual marriage in Norway (differing only by name) since January 2009
The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with	The gift of nature that I would like to have.	Literary skill
How I wish to die	How I want to die.	Quickly, without noticing
What is your present state of mind.	My present state of mind.	Concentration
For what fault have you most toleration?	Faults for which I have the most indulgence.	Mother Theresa like self sacrifice
Your favorite motto.	My motto.	Per aspera ad astra