I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.
April 2, 2011
Flashmob for the Planet : Quebec.
I dare you not to smile. Happy Saturday, Guys.
xo
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
It's fantastic they got their message across to someone who already 'got it'.
My problem with stuff like this is, they're only patting their own kind on the back-while looking their nose down on those they deem ignorant. I, too, would probably have stepped over this bottle, not because I don't recycle, but because I feel there may be a reason, unknown to me, why it has been left in such a way. For the record and regardless how people may look at me, I go through more plastic bottles than anyone I know, and I recycle(through a donation to the needy)everyone of them. I'm far from a saint, but it disgusts me that such a scenario can have one judged as an ignorant fuck!
Perhaps I have taken this way too seriously(gee do you think?), but just fucking once I would love to be applauded for keeping my nose out of someone else's shit. Where's the group that high-fives that?
I assume most people pat their own kind on the back. All the time.
The only problem with that in your scenario is patting on the back would include sticking yourself in someone else's business.
Applauding an action can take many forms: laughing at a certain comedian, eating at a specific restaurant, buying an artist's record.
Generally getting behind something, thus encouraging more of that behaviour and hopefully shaping your world in the vision you would desire.
And you know that I am not going to blog about the nobility of withholding involvement in the world because a) that is not my style and would be extremely hypocritical, and b) the act of blogging about it would create a vortex of bad irony such that it may morph into a black hole and swallow the entire internet.
I am assuming this video was done in Quebec where "91% of the population cares about the environment"? Not very much evidently, or the video would've been done as soon as it started. Still, it DID make me smile, and I hope to never end up the center of attention of a flash mob like that. (Suddenly I am afraid of plastic bottles laying on the ground.)
In seriousness, I wonder why so much garbage is in the ocean. At this point I think it is *because* of recycling. We send most of our used plastic to China (to be turned into fabrics for the most part) by way of the Pacific Ocean. Wind, storms, rough oceans, crappy crews...certainly the pacific gyre isn't filled with plastic because of cruise ships and beach picnics. No, it is because of millions of tons of plastic being so thoughtfully recycled on another continent by way of boat. I could be wrong, but probably not. Something depressing to think about at any rate.
Now that I have bummed myself out about the idea of recycling plastic, I think I will watch the video again because I need a grin.
3 comments:
It's fantastic they got their message across to someone who already 'got it'.
My problem with stuff like this is, they're only patting their own kind on the back-while looking their nose down on those they deem ignorant. I, too, would probably have stepped over this bottle, not because I don't recycle, but because I feel there may be a reason, unknown to me, why it has been left in such a way. For the record and regardless how people may look at me, I go through more plastic bottles than anyone I know, and I recycle(through a donation to the needy)everyone of them. I'm far from a saint, but it disgusts me that such a scenario can have one judged as an ignorant fuck!
Perhaps I have taken this way too seriously(gee do you think?), but just fucking once I would love to be applauded for keeping my nose out of someone else's shit. Where's the group that high-fives that?
Just sayin'.
I assume most people pat their own kind on the back. All the time.
The only problem with that in your scenario is patting on the back would include sticking yourself in someone else's business.
Applauding an action can take many forms: laughing at a certain comedian, eating at a specific restaurant, buying an artist's record.
Generally getting behind something, thus encouraging more of that behaviour and hopefully shaping your world in the vision you would desire.
And you know that I am not going to blog about the nobility of withholding involvement in the world because a) that is not my style and would be extremely hypocritical, and b) the act of blogging about it would create a vortex of bad irony such that it may morph into a black hole and swallow the entire internet.
But thank you for your thoughts.
I am assuming this video was done in Quebec where "91% of the population cares about the environment"? Not very much evidently, or the video would've been done as soon as it started. Still, it DID make me smile, and I hope to never end up the center of attention of a flash mob like that. (Suddenly I am afraid of plastic bottles laying on the ground.)
In seriousness, I wonder why so much garbage is in the ocean. At this point I think it is *because* of recycling. We send most of our used plastic to China (to be turned into fabrics for the most part) by way of the Pacific Ocean. Wind, storms, rough oceans, crappy crews...certainly the pacific gyre isn't filled with plastic because of cruise ships and beach picnics. No, it is because of millions of tons of plastic being so thoughtfully recycled on another continent by way of boat. I could be wrong, but probably not. Something depressing to think about at any rate.
Now that I have bummed myself out about the idea of recycling plastic, I think I will watch the video again because I need a grin.
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