Some stuff does, some stuff doesn't...I doubt I could nail it down any more than that.
Probably boils down to the stuff you're interested in at the end of the day...
i.e. (taking it to extremes) I couldn't give a toss if a character from soap opera died a horrible death, if it was one of the actors then I'd give them a passing thought.
The whole celebrity thing is just mental toilet paper for really ignorant bastards...Honestly! Saving the Planet or 'Some Property/Cooking/Showbiz/Chat/Soap Show'?
Duhhh!
"Everyfing will be fine so's long as Katie Price keeps on Tweeting ands Max Clifford is making a big deal about shite!"..don't get me started on politics*
What
does do my tits in, is the extent to which we are raping this planet.
Fair enough, a natural disaster on the right scale could do far worse damage in days, but there are problems that are under our (tentative) control that should take priority over everything else.
The rich don't give a fuck at the end of the day, because they think that their wealth will protect them....well, it might, for a decade or two, but a good farmer/blacksmith/engineer/teacher etc. is worth far more than a pile of paper
I have a get out clause (nearly), I don't have any kids...problem is, I have nephews and friends who have kids.
They're the poor bastards who'll have to deal with this shit at the end of the day, and if they're
really unlucky, then it'll be
their kids.
....something to look forward to in your dotage, eh? "Hey Grandad, why did your generation fuck us over when you should have known better?"
"Well young Billy, we had these politicians at the time that we voted in on how good it would make us feel right away, lowering taxes and stuff. And huge corporations that sold us stuff really cheap. Tomorrow was another day and we really didn't want to look that far ahead, so we just ran with the shit they were feeding us according to their One and Four Year Plans. Sure we were warned that the oceans were becoming sterile and the land laid to waste through pollution, but that paper money we saved was the sensible choice at the time.
How were we to know it was going to be worth less than the rags you wipe your arses with these days?"Sorry to be so cynical, but we deserve everything we get.
We are are the only species ever, that we know of, that have had this power over the planet we live on.
It's the only one we've got, and it's starting to look like one of those towerblock flats that some lonely bugger has died and melted into the carpet in, surrounded by mounds of cat shit and old magazines.
*I didn't..
-edit- Was watching The Sky at Night earlier, and Sir Patrick Moore's replacement (can't recall his bloody name now
) told an anecdote about some opinions he's heard about why Life on Earth may be unique, and couldn't help but think that it'd be a sorry state of affairs if the Human Race is the best that the whole Universe has managed to come up with in all it's billions of available systems.
