All over the map

I have been mentally nomadic for the last few weeks and have made a few misguided attempts at a blog. There was an intervention to spare my readers from a wandering, incoherent rant that got lost in what-the-fuck land. I'm feeling better and now that I've gathered my chickens again, it's time to rant. Geography is on my mind right now. We have these nationalist states we call countries or territories that white people in power divide up and label. Then those folks go gallivanting about into the countries that aren't theirs and rape and pillage the resources. In college I had my own variation of this which I typically thought of as "liberating" or "borrowing" beer from the salad crisper or other compartments where normies thought they could hide their micro-brews. Silly rabbit. I was much better at protecting my own stash, though. Anyhow, my point is my use of resources was highly conditional--like many countries in power. I didn't mind letting you have a beer or two to be social but I'd get awfully nervous if I thought too many people or too many heavy drinkers were chipping away at "my" beer. I wonder if we would be so selfish and greedy if we didn't chop up and label the world and society the way we do? I don't think personal responsibility and geography go together well. If America really took responsibility for what they have done to Africa, Asia and South America would we still continue making the decisions we make? On a smaller scale, it's interesting to look at the role of geography in the arrest of Roman Polanski. I know everything about him seems to be controversial these days and I'm going to take a risk and get on my soapbox where he is concerned. Polanski is a talented filmmaker. I can't ignore his contributions to film. I loved "The Pianist" and "Repulsion". However, he did rape a 13 year old girl and flee this country to hide in France. He's spent decades staying in the lines to avoid extradition. Now he traipsed over to Switzerland and got busted. It seems so ironic that the "neutral" country is the one now dredging up this old story. It's about time they got him--funny how it took a little change in geography to start making things right.