Only you can save mankind
I’ve bitten my tongue a lot recently; at least as far as this blog is concerned.
For once, it’s not a case of not having the time/energy/inclination to whine about something, I’ve simply chosen not to do so, because some of the things that have occurred in the press would make me write a veritable flamefest.
What sort of thing, I hear you wonder? Did you know that in the UK, approximately 191 kids every single day go missing? Most, of course, are found and reunited with their parents. But some aren’t.
Can you, perhaps, name more than one of them?
It’s that horrible misfocussing on “news” that I’m bothered by.
We are lead to believe that the world is a very simple place, and we can easily control all of it’s problems - my fiance works in a school, and I often fear that one day she’ll have to face a child say “Miss, you know that sign that says - It is easier to solve an argument with words, than a fight”, and then asks what the armies are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan and so forth.
Another random fact: In 2004 we exported 1.5 million kg of potatoes from the UK to Germany. In 2004 we also imported 1.5 million kg of from Germany.
There is simply no way in a sane and rational world that makes any sense.
Stalin once imposed a requirement that a certain tonnage of freight had to be moved a certain distance - a (New Labour style) way of measuring success with numbers.
Of course, what eventually happened is a train load of cargo (which was never unloaded, nor needed by anyone) was simply driven up and down the tracks perpetually.
I’d like to recommend that you look at the words “freecycle”, “book mooch” and “book crossing”.
Won’t necessarily make you rich, nor the rest of the world a measurably nicer place, but what the hell, eh?
Add comment June 26th, 2007
