take flight..
Well well
Here we are again. The times are a rollin' it would seem. It puts me in mind of some kind of freight transportation.
Here's another roundup of fascinating insights into my psyche:
- I don't understand the attraction of personalised number plates that aren't quite right.. Like you know, there's 3 i's in someone's name, or you have to settle for one that says T011BY or something. I don't really understand the attraction of personalised numberplates full stop, but I can appreciate if you got a good one (or better still a subtle one, with your initials at the end or something), but why the hell go for something that's not quite right? Do they actually think someone's going to look at their numberplate and go "YEAH COOL! GO YOU!".
You must understand that this is coming from someone who actually thought he looked the bomb-diggy in his shell suit and Paul Gascoigne crying t-shirt (although I was 10 at the time - give me a break) so I understand the mindset of someone who thinks dumb stuff is cool, but I still can't get my head round this one..
- I'm still in awe of newspapers that think that the unceasing dreary installments in the ongoing saga of some media-managed wants-to-be-a-fairy-tale story from washed up attention-hungry fame-whores constitutes front page news. I honestly can't tell:
if people who lap up this, for want of a better word, crapmongery, are as stupid as the newspapers/fame-whores are cynical and manipulative; who's feeding who; how anybody could possibly care.
Perhaps everyone just leads such mind-numbingly boring lives that any sideline or distraction in between getting drunk will do.
Also falling into this category, people who have nothing better to do with a Saturday nite than to watch still more crapmongery and then advertise this sad truth by taking to the intertubes to bitch and moan about whatever heavily stage managed and entirely planned injustice has been done this week.
My my. I'm all hot and bothered now.
- All the policy decisions in the world aren't going to change the fact that greed always floats to the surface like scum on a pollution-riddled waterfront. Doubly so because policy makers are also greedy (or did the expenses scandal not teach us anything). This is behind the times, but anyone who was genuinely surprised that the banking industry sat on the big pile of cash given to them to help them out of the black hole they found themselves in is seriously deluding themselves.
Not that I don't have faith in the good of mankind by the way.. I have utter faith that the light shines all the brighter for all the darkness, but you're not going to find it anywhere obvious..
I think I need to go and sit in a darkened room someplace and tie some lavender under my nose or something.
Keep it real peeps.
oversandouts
Here we are again. The times are a rollin' it would seem. It puts me in mind of some kind of freight transportation.
Here's another roundup of fascinating insights into my psyche:
- I don't understand the attraction of personalised number plates that aren't quite right.. Like you know, there's 3 i's in someone's name, or you have to settle for one that says T011BY or something. I don't really understand the attraction of personalised numberplates full stop, but I can appreciate if you got a good one (or better still a subtle one, with your initials at the end or something), but why the hell go for something that's not quite right? Do they actually think someone's going to look at their numberplate and go "YEAH COOL! GO YOU!".
You must understand that this is coming from someone who actually thought he looked the bomb-diggy in his shell suit and Paul Gascoigne crying t-shirt (although I was 10 at the time - give me a break) so I understand the mindset of someone who thinks dumb stuff is cool, but I still can't get my head round this one..
- I'm still in awe of newspapers that think that the unceasing dreary installments in the ongoing saga of some media-managed wants-to-be-a-fairy-tale story from washed up attention-hungry fame-whores constitutes front page news. I honestly can't tell:
if people who lap up this, for want of a better word, crapmongery, are as stupid as the newspapers/fame-whores are cynical and manipulative; who's feeding who; how anybody could possibly care.
Perhaps everyone just leads such mind-numbingly boring lives that any sideline or distraction in between getting drunk will do.
Also falling into this category, people who have nothing better to do with a Saturday nite than to watch still more crapmongery and then advertise this sad truth by taking to the intertubes to bitch and moan about whatever heavily stage managed and entirely planned injustice has been done this week.
My my. I'm all hot and bothered now.
- All the policy decisions in the world aren't going to change the fact that greed always floats to the surface like scum on a pollution-riddled waterfront. Doubly so because policy makers are also greedy (or did the expenses scandal not teach us anything). This is behind the times, but anyone who was genuinely surprised that the banking industry sat on the big pile of cash given to them to help them out of the black hole they found themselves in is seriously deluding themselves.
Not that I don't have faith in the good of mankind by the way.. I have utter faith that the light shines all the brighter for all the darkness, but you're not going to find it anywhere obvious..
I think I need to go and sit in a darkened room someplace and tie some lavender under my nose or something.
Keep it real peeps.
oversandouts
Reading about the minutiae of the highs and woes of celebs and wannabes and watching them being manipulated as they try to live out their fantasies on television gives people a sense of intimacy/community/connectedness that used to be provided by the intimacy of living in communities and being connected to larger families. The fact that it is only an illusion of relationships only increases the need to consume more of it. Even smaller nuclear family back in the seventies usually lived in less space and would tend mot only to eat together but would watch television together in one room (only 30% of homes had central heating and hardly anyone had more than one telly so people actually lived together). Now even young children have their own rooms each with a telly/x box etc, so there is a lack of communality even within immediate family. Makes the masses much easier to manipulate........
Posted by
Mothervic |
November 26, 2009 8:36 AM
mothervic what makes you think they would want to manipulate anyone! Also takes peoples minds off what's really going on and engaging with it. Who'd want to be a politician after all?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8379759.stm
Posted by
teh jayhawk |
November 26, 2009 10:01 AM
I watch these things quite a lot but don't really care bout it but i do find it entertaining... granted its very low level entertainment! Not sure why i watch it really, usually coz no sport on. I also don't pay too much attention to whats really going on in real life in terms of politics and what not. Is this because i'm being manipulated not to?? i mean when i think about real life issues, i do care, but is it that i feed myself with such meaningless crap that i choose not to do anything about real issues???
I'm not convinced i would as things are hard to care a lot about unless it directly effects/affects me. I'm sure if i developed cancer i would suddenly feel a much stronger urge to give money to cancer research than i currently do. I'd like to think that i'm not being manipulated by all the shit... coz i know deep down IT IS shit, but what do i know??? maybe i am? I can see blatant things such as a lot being wrong with the 9/11 account and everytime i think about the pictures i saw that day and since i get a feeling of absolute devastation for what people involved went through and are still going through but i don't do anything. That sounds horrible. Is that a manipulation of the government or am i just lazy in not doing more? i think i'm probably more to blame.
Aran
Posted by
Anonymous |
November 29, 2009 8:28 PM
Quite agree Aran, me too.
But take this for example...
A week after 9/11, the government announced that the New York air was safe to breathe and everyone could go back to work (Wall St especially...).
This was a lie. Now large numbers of first responders who did all the clean up are dying of lung cancers etc because they spent months on the pile. Why does no one do anything? No money or support from the government is forthcoming, they protest and fight, but the media doesn't report it.
Do we fight for justice only when it affects us, or just because it's wrong?
Posted by
teh jayhawk |
November 30, 2009 9:14 AM
Be the trouble you want to see in the world
Posted by
Anonymous |
November 30, 2009 8:49 PM