{"id":490,"date":"2007-08-07T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elli.annall.is\/2007-08-07\/mennskan\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:21:37","slug":"mennskan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2007\/08\/07\/mennskan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mennskan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9g keypti m\u00e9r um daginn Bowie, <em>This is not America<\/em>, \u00e1 iTunes. \u00dea\u00f0 er nefnilega einstaklega skemmtilega \u00f6grandi og undarlegt a\u00f0 hafa lagi\u00f0 \u00ed eyrunum \u00feegar keyrt er eftir hra\u00f0brautunum sem skera \u00ed sundur mi\u00f0b\u00e6inn h\u00e9r \u00ed Columbus. \u00dev\u00ed \u00fea\u00f0 er sannarlega Amer\u00edka. En Amer\u00edka er meira en hra\u00f0brautir, vi\u00f0 fj\u00f6lskyldan h\u00f6fum tv\u00edvegis m\u00e6tt \u00e1 hafnaboltaleik og \u00fea\u00f0 er svo sannarlega Amer\u00edka. \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0s\u00f6ngurinn \u00ed upphafi, unglingarnir sem hafa n\u00fdskr\u00e1\u00f0 sig \u00ed herinn a\u00f0 fara me\u00f0 ei\u00f0 um a\u00f0 l\u00fata forsetanum frammi fyrir \u00e1heyrendum og pallb\u00edlarnir \u00e1 b\u00edlast\u00e6\u00f0inu.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>En Amer\u00edka er v\u00ed\u00f0ar, \u00ed g\u00e6r f\u00f3r \u00e9g me\u00f0 b\u00f6rnin \u00e1 Ohio State Fair. M\u00e9r var hugsa\u00f0 til mannsins sem sag\u00f0i enga \u00fe\u00f6rf a\u00f0 fara til \u00fatlanda \u00fea\u00f0 v\u00e6ri miklu skemmtilegra \u00e1 hr\u00fatas\u00fdningum \u00fear sem vi\u00f0 gengum um fj\u00e1rh\u00fasi\u00f0 \u00ed mi\u00f0b\u00e6 Columbus og sko\u00f0u\u00f0um rollur, me\u00f0 langa skanka og sumar \u00ed skikkjum til a\u00f0 verjast hitanum. Sigurhr\u00fatur \u00e1rsins \u00ed Ohio bar sig vel, vel hyrndur og gl\u00e6silegur me\u00f0 bl\u00e1an sigurbor\u00f0a yfir b\u00e1snum s\u00ednum, \u00fe\u00f3 \u00e9g hafi ekki mikla tr\u00fa \u00e1 a\u00f0 hann hef\u00f0i enst lengi \u00ed fj\u00f6llunum \u00e1 \u00cdslandi. Vi\u00f0 k\u00edktum l\u00edka \u00ed hesth\u00fasi\u00f0 \u00fear sem Anna Laufey s\u00e1 \u00fe\u00e1 st\u00e6rstu hesta sem h\u00fan haf\u00f0i nokkru sinni s\u00e9\u00f0, anna\u00f0 en litlu kubbana sem vi\u00f0 \u00cdslendingar k\u00f6llum hesta. Vi\u00f0 fengum okkur \u00eds \u00ed fj\u00f3sinu og gengum \u00ed gegnum innanh\u00fas s\u00f6lusv\u00e6\u00f0i sem minnti \u00e1 Kolaporti\u00f0. Vi\u00f0 reyndar f\u00f3rum ekki \u00e1 t\u00f3nleika \u00e1 Fair-inu, \u00fear sem n\u00fdjasta unglingastjarna Disney (sem d\u00f3ttur minni finnst \u00e6\u00f0i), Weird-Al Yankovic, a\u00f0alk\u00e1ntr\u00edstj\u00f6rnurnar og st\u00f3rb\u00f6ndin Slayer og Quit Riot (Common Feel the Noise) f\u00e1 hver sitt kv\u00f6ldi\u00f0.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1 lei\u00f0 okkar \u00e1 skemmtit\u00e6kjasv\u00e6\u00f0i\u00f0 sem minnti \u00e1 t\u00edvol\u00edi\u00f0 vi\u00f0 Sm\u00e1ralind \u00e1 sterum, var tjaldi\u00f0 sem breytti s\u00fdn minni \u00e1 &#8220;fair&#8221;-i\u00f0. Utan \u00e1 tjaldinu voru myndir af f\u00f3lki \u00ed d\u00fdragervum og yfir innganginum st\u00f3\u00f0 &#8220;Wonders of the World&#8221;. Framan vi\u00f0 tjaldi\u00f0 st\u00f3\u00f0u s\u00ed\u00f0an manneskjur \u00ed skrautlegum f\u00f6tum \u00e1 svi\u00f0i og hv\u00f6ttu f\u00f3lk til a\u00f0 fara inn \u00e1 sj\u00e1 f\u00f3lk sem v\u00e6ri f\u00e6tt \u00e1n handa, dverga og a\u00f0ra skr\u00edtnar manneskjur. \u00deetta v\u00e6ri t\u00e6kif\u00e6ri til a\u00f0 sj\u00e1 hvers kyns undarlegar fatlanir fyrir a\u00f0eins $3 mi\u00f0ann fyrir fullor\u00f0na og $2 fyrir b\u00f6rn eldri en 5 \u00e1ra. M\u00e9r fannst sem a\u00f0 \u00e9g hef\u00f0i hrapa\u00f0 til baka um 50 \u00e1r. \u00c9g s\u00e1 fyrir m\u00e9r J\u00f3hann risa \u00far Svarfa\u00f0ardalnum, falinn inn \u00ed h\u00fasb\u00edl fram a\u00f0 s\u00fdningu svo engin s\u00e6i undri\u00f0 \u00e1n \u00feess a\u00f0 borga gjaldi\u00f0.<\/p>\n<p>Reyndar f\u00f3r \u00e9g me\u00f0 b\u00f6rnin og vi\u00f0 s\u00e1um &#8220;show&#8221; me\u00f0 t\u00edgrisd\u00fdrum sem eftir 50 \u00e1r, g\u00e6ti vaki\u00f0 svipu\u00f0 vi\u00f0br\u00f6g\u00f0 og vi\u00f0undras\u00fdningin, en \u00e9g velti fyrir m\u00e9r mennskunni. Er \u00fea\u00f0 svo a\u00f0 kennismi\u00f0ir eins og <a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/hopkins.shtml\">Dwight N. Hopkins<\/a> hafi r\u00e9tt fyrir s\u00e9r \u00feegar \u00feeir fullyr\u00f0a a\u00f0 eina mennskan \u00ed kap\u00edtal\u00edsku samf\u00e9lagi s\u00e9 m\u00e6lanleg \u00ed dollurum?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9g keypti m\u00e9r um daginn Bowie, This is not America, \u00e1 iTunes. \u00dea\u00f0 er nefnilega einstaklega skemmtilega \u00f6grandi og undarlegt a\u00f0 hafa lagi\u00f0 \u00ed eyrunum \u00feegar keyrt er eftir hra\u00f0brautunum sem skera \u00ed sundur mi\u00f0b\u00e6inn h\u00e9r \u00ed Columbus. \u00dev\u00ed \u00fea\u00f0 er sannarlega Amer\u00edka. En Amer\u00edka er meira en hra\u00f0brautir, vi\u00f0 fj\u00f6lskyldan h\u00f6fum tv\u00edvegis m\u00e6tt \u00e1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2007\/08\/07\/mennskan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mennskan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islenska","tag-civil-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}