The other day I read a post by a sort of friend of mine on facebook, lambasting everyone that was pissed about the Rolling Stones cover of the terroristic POS. My friend was greatly indignant, and basically told everybody that if they didn't like it, don't buy it, but shut the fuck up already. Then, yesterday she types out about a half page novella, congratulaing the royal couple on their new addition to the family, and in essence, oohs and aaahhs about the precious little soon to be figurehead. Um, scuse me, but we live in Nooo Way Voh Mek-see-koh.
What this is is simply a microcosm of exactly what is wrong with this country right now. There are issues...serious issues, that Joe and Jane citizen could give a shit about, but the next little shiny butterfly that passes by gets their undivided attention. Here is a person that has the balls to lecture others about being offended by something that, in her words, makes absolutely no difference in anybody's life, and yet she spends an equal or greater amount of time singing the praises of a new born babe in a country far away that is the future heir of a title that means absolutely nothing.
I wonder how the people impacted by the Boston bombing feel about the new little princeling?
Typical of the "I'm offended so don't do it any more crowd" -- probably wouldn't see the irony if you retyped her Rolling Stone message substituting in the "royal baby" lines.
ReplyDeleteI find posts like that very instructive. Those who repeatedly make them get put on the ignore list. Makes room for important discussions and new blogs --
Congrats on taking the plunge by the way.
Bob,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback and the welcome. I took the libert of adding you to my blog list. Hope you don't mind.