Friday, September 22, 2006

Reasons to be Cheerful


  • Elephants painted red in protest of poverty
  • The price of petrol to propel our machines past the next election
  • The colour of democracy red or blue
  • The smell of your money in a virtual bank
  • That steak hacked from the back of a mechanical cow, sacred no longer
  • Battery hens that light up your meal
  • e-coli; salmonella; flesh-eating burger
  • The twinkling eye of your neighbourhood dealer
  • GlaxoSmithKlineWelcomePfizerViagra
  • Aborting the foetus of rapist paternity
  • Racist legislation parading as virtue
  • Cannon-fodder ghettos for the war on terra
  • Sniffing the glue that holds us together
  • DNA codes on the edge of whatever
  • Drinking the juice from forbidden fruit
  • Chastising children for stepping on cracks
  • Pontificating Pontiff falling in line
  • Hollywood activist saving the world
  • The second (and healthier) coming of Ronald MacDonald
  • The morality of Christian capitalism
  • The morality Judeo expansionism
  • The mobilisation of religious armies
  • The yellow peril
  • The poverty of culture in the face of the dollar
  • The face on the dollar
  • 24 things on television tonight
  • Propaganda parading as entertainment (you know what I’m talking about Jack Bouer)
  • Soap operas teaching our children to live
  • Coronation Street corner preachers care in the community
  • The small print on contracts with the devil
  • The bar code on your soul
  • The bar room philosopher who always knows better
  • The armchair philosopher with a head full of butter
  • The future
  • The past
  • The state of the nation
  • You and me
  • Alienation

5 comments:

Rancho Perros Bravos said...

It is not so cheerful reading such a list, although interesting to pass thru the mind.

Garth said...

:-} You should see the lines I left out...

troutsky said...

Fantabulous. Alien -nation! Have you ever checked out Guy Debord, theorist and author of The Society of the Spectacle? These are not happy times.

? said...

I'd never have considered alienation. Excellent

Warm greetings from the flying monkeys

Zanzounito said...

I'd hate to see your list, "Things to be not so cheerful about"

ciao

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