Firstly, there there has been another sighting of the "Crazy" Italian Lady - ok - eccentric
Crazy is crazy do?
The thing about Facebook is that it is, well, it is lot's of things. But what good is it doing exactly. Probably lot's. But what about the hidden bads? What are people doing? What is that the point of it? What is it doing to The People? To individuals? To society? To mass opinions? To the people who have ulterior motives? To you? To me? What are people doing with it? Not just the power brokers, but maybe even your closest friends let alone your worst enemies.
I don't know whether it is a good or a bad thing but two "Political" postings by two loose "Friends" of mine (Oh and why are we/people friends with people we haven't even seen since we were 10 years old or never had hardly a word to say too when we were "Friends") have got me thinking, or maybe I'm not thinking.
Why would you, or me, or anyone for that matter want to post something that is so ridiculously righteous regarding a political/economic/social/religious and yet so utterly stupid and unsubstantiated, or is the word I am looking for absurd?
Eg I can only assume a labour voting/supporting friend of mine, who wrote something along the lines of - David Cameron wants to sell off all of the trees, conservative scum, he lost, I despise the conservatives - Erm........
1. Cameron is part of a coalition government is he not?
2. The only reason why we have a coalition is because the last government all but sold our souls to the financial services devil.
3. They essentially put this country into such a disastrous financial position we are effectively owned by "Chinese/Arabic/Timbuctoo" sovereign wealth funds, from which as a nation we will never recover - NEVER - we can't possibly pay these sums back, we don't make anything anymore and everything else we "Do" is being outsourced, do the math, look at our balance of payment position. (I hadn't but I had to check - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/bop1210.pdf - it is shocking)
4 They drove our manufacturing and skills levels base to low levels never seen in any previous government, ever, EVER.
5 They presided over making the rich vastly incredibly, stupendously wealthy, beyond levels you and I cannot even conceive - it is that excessive it is sickening - and the best bit is they don't pay any tax in relative terms - and the poor so incredibly devoid of wealth and vitally hope (Yes, this was a Labour government) that they may as well be in a mental asylum.
6. We wouldn't have had to consider raising relative pennies from selling "Our" forests (land is the real value) to pay off a few weeks interest on these gigantic loans if it wasn't for our debts.
7 Seriously I could go on all day, but I won't, as they are predominantly my opinions but they are backed by fact.
I agree and I am glad that we haven't decided to sell off our forestry land, I think that it has too much social and environmental value. However, why make it a political statement? On Facebook????
My point here is, he made his remark rather flippantly and without too much, obviously any, research (like myself) - this person is a financial reporter and he's shown himself to all of his friends, peers and colleagues - to be a complete arse on so many levels.
Why on earth would you want to do that? Any educated person wouldn't have dreamed of making such a narrow minded ill thought through comment to his bosses and peers down the pub, he'd have been ridiculed. So why do it "On paper" as it were and on such a transparent forum AND levied the remark as a political statement and a jibe at the Tories.
What also makes me laugh is that one of his ex colleagues pointed out that he used to be a print journalist..... Erm, a tree hugging print journalist - my case is validated.
Am I taking things out of perspective..... just wanna insert a photo.....
So in that instance my case is proven, will Facebook cost that man a degree of professional and also personal respect..... Maybe his job, maybe a future promotion? Maybe none of the above, maybe he'll become King. Anyway, essentially he is really a very decent bloke. Or is he.
(Are peoples thoughts already starting to become part of the fabric of life. Now there is a thought. Did you know that one of Googles mission statements is for us to have a "Google" chip inserted on our person......).
Anyway. He's probably had a bad day at the office. Just wanted to say something in his head, in what is his virtual world. However, this is when virtual can become reality. I guess when used naively inappropriately this is when Facebook or personal social media/marketing can have disastrous effects. I doubt that posting will prove to be disastrous, I hope not anyway.
The other quote that made me laugh was this one...... You can figure out for yourself why this comment is so naive and incredibly economically, socially and politically fool hardy - THERE IS A REASON WHY 99% of people won't post it you idiot -
Posting..... Doesn't make much sense, does it??: Homeless go without eating. Elderly go without needed medicines. Mentally ill go without treatment. Troops go without proper equipment. Veterans go without benefits that were promised. Yet we donate billions to other countries before helping our own first. 1% will re-post and 99% won't. Have the guts to re-post this. I KNOW I'm in the 1%
- I am not sure if the 99% all understand the social/economic/political reasons as to why, but I hope they are seeing the bigger picture - from acorns grow mighty oaks.....
Anway, do mosqito's have eyes?
And yes. x
Fantastic political blog. And a brilliant seascape picture. Love em both.
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