It’s all misery guts at the moment isn’t it? We’re either going to boil to death via global warming or be too broke to live to see it. The Tsunami of Turmoil which has been long predicted both economically and ecologically has finally broken the horizon. It has been promoted as a Summer Movie Blockbuster for so long that it almost doesn’t seem real. Is it another gigantic exaggeration by the media to whip the globe up into an intense frenzy of paranoia all in aid of selling more papers and watching CNN? Or are we sitting queens on the Titanic clutching our pearls and fur ordering more gin and asking the band to play “Roll Out the Barrel” one more time? All I know is that I am sick of it. We’re all sick of it.
Don’t get me wrong, I am a very pessimistic person. I embrace pessimism. I’m always convinced I’m going to robbed, sacked, dumped or murdered. The worst is always nigh for me. My glass isn’t half full….it’s not even there. I have my good Irish catholic upbringing to thank. Think the absolute worst and only better things can come. It got my family through a potato famine and nine months on a leaking boat to come to a land without any water or air-conditioning. Believe me I do pessimism. But this year takes the cake.
The pessimism in the media from global warming to global credit crunch has been non-stop.
As a result, all us earthlings have been turned into deranged stressed out chooks being hurdled from one side of the pen to the other. From mamma used the microwave too much so we’re fried to papa used other people’s money too much so now we’re broke. As a result we’ve torn all our feathers out and now stand bald with fear.
Is this what the “powers that be” intend? Is this their game plan? To have us so petrified that we will simply agree to anything.? Yes here is $700 billion dollars, please fix the banks; yes I will pay a $1000 tax every time I fart; please refrigerate the polar caps.
As Kath Day always says when she’s in a miff over doing the household budget “Toime Out! Toime Out!”
Don’t get me wrong, I am a very pessimistic person. I embrace pessimism. I’m always convinced I’m going to robbed, sacked, dumped or murdered. The worst is always nigh for me. My glass isn’t half full….it’s not even there. I have my good Irish catholic upbringing to thank. Think the absolute worst and only better things can come. It got my family through a potato famine and nine months on a leaking boat to come to a land without any water or air-conditioning. Believe me I do pessimism. But this year takes the cake.
The pessimism in the media from global warming to global credit crunch has been non-stop.
As a result, all us earthlings have been turned into deranged stressed out chooks being hurdled from one side of the pen to the other. From mamma used the microwave too much so we’re fried to papa used other people’s money too much so now we’re broke. As a result we’ve torn all our feathers out and now stand bald with fear.
Is this what the “powers that be” intend? Is this their game plan? To have us so petrified that we will simply agree to anything.? Yes here is $700 billion dollars, please fix the banks; yes I will pay a $1000 tax every time I fart; please refrigerate the polar caps.
As Kath Day always says when she’s in a miff over doing the household budget “Toime Out! Toime Out!”
I think the world is in need of a little toime out.....that...or more porn.
C
5 comments:
Yes please, more porn for me...
Here here! I do think the media are LOVING it at the moment, with each headline bigger and more devastating than the last! Seriously, the share market has "plunged" and we've "lost" $30B in one day...well no we haven't. It's a PAPER loss, so until you actually sell your shares, you haven't lost anything. But stupid people start panicking when they read such headlines and so start selling like there's no tomorrow! Amateur investors...useless! Nearly as useless as stockbrokers who are facing losing their massive bonuses! Anyway, that's my rant. Big hug!
PS More porn would be good too. ;-)
Porn....you two are so predictable.
I feel your frustration dear but I feel you need to learn the ancient art of "disengagement" and a withdrawal from such worldly matters. Outcomes will not be changed by the level of anxiety or worry that you apply to them - it's not easy for a child of the world such as your good self to untangle from the global conscience but I urge caution with taking it too far.
I recommend some immediate Radiohead
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