making statements

I read this on a photoblog... Looks like things aren't too different even in Canada... :)

"There are too many signs, too many directions, too many internet tests to find out how smart we are or what sort of dog we resemble. There are too many books of self instruction and too many movies where the hero and heroine are of comic book proportion and the good guy always wins. There are too many pages of direction for a tax return and too many music CDs to choose from and too many channels on television. There are too many soldiers and too many politicians and too many children without food.

We're in this frantic make-work mode - so we make and make and make. Everything is disposable - otherwise what would all the workers do? We have professions springing up left right and center just to deal with all the other professions. And, you know, workers have all those worker babies and so we need more ... work. It's a cycle, like everything else. I'm no physics genius, I can assure you, but even I understand the notion of critical mass.

What if everyone kept their car, for instance, for twenty years on average - instead of two years. Can you imagine the world-wide global impact of that? Massive job loss, pockets of intense poverty springing up in the world's economic giants, inability to fund the population growth.

I hardly know what to do - whether to laugh or cry - when I think about it - when I see the spray painted stop signs and the kids in flocks on street corners with black lipstick and pierced ... everythings. God bless 'em - maybe when the youth of the world is pissed off enough, things will change."

I haven't pierced a thing yet (apart from my ears, but at 8 months, that was hardly my choice). Nor am I pissed off. I'm amused. So I think I'll pierce other people. So ha.