Hello, my name is Michael Miller and I live in Indianapolis. I don't know that I am particularly happy about living in Indianapolis. In fact, Like anywhere else in the world, Indy has its good and bad points. I came to Belarus on vacation in June of 2002. I came on a wife trip, that is to say, I came at the invitation of a marriage company. I was looking for a Belarusian Wife. I met many nice women, each one prettier and smarter than the last, and I would have been lucky to have married any of them, but things just didn't work out that way. When I cam to Belarus, I barely knew the name of the President, much less had any political opinions about him or Belarus. I tried very hard to stay out of any political discussions because I didn't really want to end up arguing with anyone or saying the wrong thing. And I didn't have anything to say. But I did observe my surroundings, I did look into the eyes of the people, I did discuss things with them, and I got a general idea of the "gestault" of the place. I formed most of my Belarusian opinions through independent reading and research, and also from my other travels to Moscow, Togliatti, Ryzan, Sochi, Warsaw and Bucharest. I speak horrible and non-functional russian, but someday I hope to only speak bad russian that sometimes can be understood by some people. Actually, I have been thinking about going to college in Belarus for a long time, and I would like to someday attend the Belarusian State University and study Economics and International Politics. That's right. No BS at all. And I have been thinking about this for so long, that I found I have a lot to say about how that little country has been treated by our country and the media. So this, and because I got involved with the BEING HAD Blog is why I have started this Blog. I hope that people will be interested in what I have to say and I am very interested in your opinions about this subject matter too. My main motivation in writing this blog is to somehow help the people of Belarus retain their physical assets and their way of life and not have thier socio-economic inertia squandered and destroyed by western forces motivated only by greed and prejudice and general intellectual piccaninyism. For a long time the people of America were taught to hate and fear all things Soviet, and all things Eastern European, we were taught with fervor to deal with soviet economic issues in an emotional fashion. That is how our minds were controlled during and to some extent after the cold war. We were not taught that Soviet styled socialism might have some merrits for the general population, rather we were taught it was pure evil, tantamount to slavery, or a living hell of some sort. This manner of thinking is very hard for the common man in America to overcome. And unless you have some experience traveling to Eastern Europe and seeing how people live, and meeting them and talking to them, you will proably never overcome the bonds of soci-academic slavery that have been placed on you by the U.S. government during the cold war. I think I have broken those chains in my own mind, I have been able to free my mind to think about issues from a multiple of different perspectives, and so I am able to construct ideas and arguments that the average person might understand, but that they proably don't have the time to build and publish on their own. I know I am not breaking any ground with this blog, I am not introducing any new ideas in principle, but hopefully the mission of my blog will be fullfilled in that perhaps some of the propaganda and lies about Belarus and the Lukashenka administration will be somehow neutralized and the people of Belarus will have a little more breathing space with which to build a great country and live safely and cleanly and with happiness and security. I am also building a web page do post and discuss the work of Jerzy Kosinski, specificily The Painted Bird. You can access that web page here http://thepaintedbirdpostulate.com/ . I apologize my html coding skills suck so badly on this site, please just copy this address and insert it to the address bar. I am earnestly and hystericly trying to learn code as you read this. More hystericly than earnestly.
So for now let's see how this goes.
Live from Indy
Mike Miller.
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