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I am aware that i live in a bubble. I don't know when it will burst, but it does feel think those walls, those transparent walls.
I can tell you that the world is filled with people who are unable to think for themselves. Tell me what has changed between this year and two years ago. Nothing. Fundamentally nothing. Except that this year people have decided that the illusions that they dined out on last year were not good enough for this year.
This year is the year we got real. What i don't understand is why could we not have gotten real in a more imaginative way?
Why could the government not have said, look, we are securing the savings of people who have saved and beyond that we are going to put money into local communities, the switch over to a renewables based economy, we are going to put the fuckers who put us into this mess into jail...
They cannot do this because firstly, they have no imagination. Just as bankers have to be greedy bastards in order to be bankers, bureaucrats and politicians have to have no imaginations in order to be who they are. If they weren't barren in their souls they would not choose that profession. Just like if you aren't a control freak you are more than likely not want to be a teacher. But anyways, they have no imagination. The second reason is that they have been hanging out with the greedy bastards. The barren of imagination have formed an alliance with the greedy bastards and the result, the upshot of this are solutions which only make the situation worse. There are no leaders anymore. Only people who have their own self interest at heart.
And doesn't the rest of the world know this. We all behave as if we are the only people who matter.
I did not watch the funeral of Jade Goody. But i was amazed at the amount of attention that was lavished on her. There was a mix of admiration, guilt and confusion from the media. On the one hand they couldn't bear her, on the other she was perfect car crash TV. They couldn't understand why they could not stop watching her - and i think it's because somehow, Jade was authentic all the time. She didn't give stuff about what people thought about her. OK, i'm fat, i want to get thin so i'll get thin. I don't know who Shakespeare is, so what? I don't know where East Anglia is, so what? I crave the attention of the spotlight while i am dying, so what? I'm out to make as much money as possible for my sons before i die and while i do this i get even more attention, so what? I'm a racist without knowing it, so what? She was entirely genuine in her behaviour and i think that finally that was what was so incredible about her.
And what's more was when she got it wrong, she wanted to get it right. So after she slagged Shilpa off, she then said she was sorry and then went to India to prove it. She did something about it. She tried to improve. In many many ways Jade was the person we all were, rather than the person we wanted to be. And that was probably why we all couldn't stop watching her.
She carried so much of our story - more than we would ever know.
And now she is dead.
I think that she isn't the role model which i'd pick, if i had to do something as annoying and middle class and prep school like that. But you know what, between Posh Spice, Bernie Madoff and Tony Blair, i think she'd be the best of the lot. Also in the final analysis Jade was harmless. She did not rob people of their savings, she did not lie when she went to war, she did not starve herself for the sake of vanity... i suppose that's why she was who she was - the world's first reality TV star.
I can tell you that the world is filled with people who are unable to think for themselves. Tell me what has changed between this year and two years ago. Nothing. Fundamentally nothing. Except that this year people have decided that the illusions that they dined out on last year were not good enough for this year.
This year is the year we got real. What i don't understand is why could we not have gotten real in a more imaginative way?
Why could the government not have said, look, we are securing the savings of people who have saved and beyond that we are going to put money into local communities, the switch over to a renewables based economy, we are going to put the fuckers who put us into this mess into jail...
They cannot do this because firstly, they have no imagination. Just as bankers have to be greedy bastards in order to be bankers, bureaucrats and politicians have to have no imaginations in order to be who they are. If they weren't barren in their souls they would not choose that profession. Just like if you aren't a control freak you are more than likely not want to be a teacher. But anyways, they have no imagination. The second reason is that they have been hanging out with the greedy bastards. The barren of imagination have formed an alliance with the greedy bastards and the result, the upshot of this are solutions which only make the situation worse. There are no leaders anymore. Only people who have their own self interest at heart.
And doesn't the rest of the world know this. We all behave as if we are the only people who matter.
I did not watch the funeral of Jade Goody. But i was amazed at the amount of attention that was lavished on her. There was a mix of admiration, guilt and confusion from the media. On the one hand they couldn't bear her, on the other she was perfect car crash TV. They couldn't understand why they could not stop watching her - and i think it's because somehow, Jade was authentic all the time. She didn't give stuff about what people thought about her. OK, i'm fat, i want to get thin so i'll get thin. I don't know who Shakespeare is, so what? I don't know where East Anglia is, so what? I crave the attention of the spotlight while i am dying, so what? I'm out to make as much money as possible for my sons before i die and while i do this i get even more attention, so what? I'm a racist without knowing it, so what? She was entirely genuine in her behaviour and i think that finally that was what was so incredible about her.
And what's more was when she got it wrong, she wanted to get it right. So after she slagged Shilpa off, she then said she was sorry and then went to India to prove it. She did something about it. She tried to improve. In many many ways Jade was the person we all were, rather than the person we wanted to be. And that was probably why we all couldn't stop watching her.
She carried so much of our story - more than we would ever know.
And now she is dead.
I think that she isn't the role model which i'd pick, if i had to do something as annoying and middle class and prep school like that. But you know what, between Posh Spice, Bernie Madoff and Tony Blair, i think she'd be the best of the lot. Also in the final analysis Jade was harmless. She did not rob people of their savings, she did not lie when she went to war, she did not starve herself for the sake of vanity... i suppose that's why she was who she was - the world's first reality TV star.
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