The way we were...
How much have we changed over the years? Look at yourself now. Look at yourself 10 years ago. How much has consciously changed? Is it for the better, do you think? Have you changed at all? If you were 12 ten years ago then this probably doesn't apply, for we all know how much you have physically changed. But maybe we should look into that. When we are pre-teens, do we truly have any differences to ourselves than we do when we are adults? How much is to blame on adolecence? How much is to blame on just human nature? Do we dumb ourselves down into believing we are no longer an animal species? What changed in our genome that granted us the right to take over? Some argue that technology is the reason we are seperated from the animals, I say it is the reason we cannot move forward. Technology, to me, is our catalyst that keeps us from finding an actual harmony with the world we live in...not rule. Mother nature is a far greater force than we could ever harness. That's why it scares and intruiges us so much. Yet we as humans believe hole-heartedly that we are an exceptional breed. Due to the landing on the moon and a nuclear fusion we except our fates as gods amung the creatures of the planet. Is it not true that most if not all the species, minus humans, on the planet leave the nest before their first birthday? That most animals actually leave their mother's side right after birth? We are the only species on the planet that creates a life revolved around nurture, an achilles heel of evolutionary sorts. We are mammals, so that in itself is a reason we hold onto our parents, but even the most family oriented species do not depend on the family structure as their means of growth, acceptance, prosperity...so look into yourself. How much have you changed in the past ten years? Now compare that to how much you've learned. It's not our technology that pushes us forward it's our capability to have it. The next time you fill your gas tank up at the gas station think about how much amazing brain power went into creating that car, gas pump, credit card, banking system, cement you're standing on, lights affording you sight, radio waves turned off with the ignition...then look into your pocket. Give that loose change to charity.
Not sure what the point of that ramble was. I had District 9, little sea turtles hatching and then making a break for the water's edge and that stupid ass Bono commercial trapped in my head all at once. *pop* "Lipshhtick" It came out in a flood of nonsensical blah, blah, blah! Whoopsie!
By the way, Bono is in the hospital, or was, for a broken arm or has cancer or something...wish he would just die and forward all his millions to fighting HIV. Then he would actually be doing some good.
God "I really hate that man". 10 points for the reference.
P.S. I would pay good money to watch the brutal beating of any human going against a grizzly with no technology. Just sayin, we aint all that without our boom-boom sticks!
Wrestling with Beauty....
10 years ago
I don't know much about Bono's charity work, but the dude can make some awesome music. Everyone I know who says they hate U2 has only heard "Vertigo" "Beautiful Day" or any of their post 2000 singles. They do not know the true power that Bono had in the 80's and early 90's.
ReplyDeleteAnd how does all of his help towards causes make him a bad person? Again I don't follow any of his humanitarian work, but how could anything he does to help any sort of cause a bad thing? I just don't get why people hate him for that.
Although his appearance in the commercial did come off as half-hearted. You can see right before he says the 2nd line about the 40 cents a day he has to look at the cue card real quick...kind of embarassing. But I still admire the man's musical talent.
PS If I had time to prepare before fighting the bear I could take him on. Does making a spear count as technology?
I didn't say I hated U2 I said I hated Bono. I hate him because of his smugness that his early on good music made him today. The fact that he gets paid for his "charitable" add is one reason why the man is in need of a cancer download, but the way that he makes the "normal" person watching the add feel incompitent and completely ass-holish for not already donating "just .40 cents a day" is the real kicker of the commercial. He could write a check for 20 million dollars and one, make it back in the tax write-off. Two, make it back in a year of royalties from his earlier albums by sitting there and not lifting a finger. Three, get together with the other six celebrities in the commercial and write a check for a million dollars each and support HIV research and pills for the next 50 years.
ReplyDeleteJust makes me laugh when I see a celebrity trying to do good by asking us to donate...minimum wage workers to donate, when they write checks for $10,000; if that. They could donate 1/3 of their paychecks a year and still live the life of 12 normal people. Just makes me sick. But, yes, some of his early music is ok. Doesn't make him a good man. Just a good artist. And no, technology would not be creating the spear, it would be adding a battery powered tazer to the end that would make it technologicaly advanced!
I would give my left arm to watch you fight a bear with a stick!!
Alright, if I could have some extra time I can make a spear slingshot type thing out of all natural things! THEN the bear would go down!
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point in your comment, Tom-- and by that, I mean, you are saying exactly what I said when Jana and I went to Epcot and Jana made us sit through the environmental-education movie that said things like "just buy an environmentally friendly car!" (something I won't be able to afford for 15 years maybe)-- these ads just make you feel bad AND make you conscious of what you can't change cos you're fricken poor! Bugh! I told her I didn't want to see the video! Lol!
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