2300 hrs June 21st 2004

Just sent Ms X to the airport

this time for 3 days to Fukuoka

voted the best city in Asia to live

of course you don't read about such things

in the Shit Times

We are world number 1

they tell us.

And if you pointed out

that we are not even in the World's top 10

some smart PAP running dog

will tell you,

We're better off than Jakarta.

Yeah,

some benchmark.

Tonight,

let's talk about

Polygamy.

A friend of mine

have this arrangement

with her boyfriend.

They can bed anyone they want

so long as they are open about it.

Cheating does not count,

as cheating

when there is no deception.

I have to admit,

that human beings

are

biologically hardwired

to be

polygamous.

We have evolved this way

over a million years.

The search for

better genetic material

to perpeptuate

our kind.

However,

in the last

thousand odd years I guess

social evolution

conforms us to

monogamy.

Therein

lies the problem.

We live in

a social world.

Emotions develop

through Time.

Allowing our polygamous nature

to go through,

will cause

emotional pain.

Just like a river

whose nature must

run its course,

an artificial dam

will block nature.

Like a dam,

a socially evolved relationship

must be strong enough,

to prevent

the natural impulse

of polygamy.

Whether we like it or not,

call it social conformity

or what.

Polygamy

will result

in emotional pain

at some point.

Someone WILL get hurt.

It will never be

a fair game.

When more than two,

are involved.

Ayn Rand,

author of "Fountainhead"

and

"Atlas Shrugged"

invented

the philosophy of

Objectivism.

Where rational faculties

are exalted

above everything else,

no place for

human emotions.

Rational self-interest

she declared

frees us

from the shackles

of convention

and

tradition.

So popular

were her theories,

she was declared,

the "most rational woman"

who ever lived.

In the spirit,

of rational self-interest,

she took a follower,

25 years younger,

as her lover.

With full consent

from her husband,

and the lover's wife.

Why can't the young lover

sleep with the woman

he admired so much?

Eventually,

it was too much

for Ayn Rand's husband,

and her lover's wife.

Both couples

were divorced

as an unfortunate

result.

Thus, I conclude,

with all due respect

to the "most rational woman"

who ever lived.

A polygamous arrangement,

will be

just

an arrangement.

It will never

be

a relationship.

Because,

in a relationship,

people get hurt,

sometimes real bad.

Like it or not,

we want our partner,

to be

exclusive.

Ayn Rand calls it

"the Virtue of Selfishness"

When you love someone,

you will never do anything

or even say anything

to

cause hurt,

stupid bitch....