Counter-rant

[f4f3]

Now that I've had enough coffee...

I'm getting fed up listening to faux-cynical gen-x'ers tell us how over charities, and religion, and state-sponsored capitalism they are. Do you know what? Nobody cares. If you're offended by someone wearing a poppy, deal with it. It's not as if their act of rememberance is impinging on one of your increasing number of "human rights", unless it's "my inalienable right to not give a toss about the people who died to shut down the death camps."

And come to think of it, being all cynical and ironical about "fighting for freedom" - catch a grip, here, the pronouncements of an industry of spin-doctors shouldn't make you doubt for a second that there are some things that are worth fighting for, that not all of those things stopped existing in 1945, and that you would be first up against the wall if any one of a number of Glorious Days actually did Come.

And, as Everclear sing, "I hate those people who love to tell you that money is the root of all that kills, they have never been poor they have never known the joy of a Welfare Christmas". If you don't like Children in Need, turn it off, and don't put anything in the cans. Don't moan about it when others do contribute. And don't come around with your vague, No-Logo, list of things that bum me out, man, like saving the whales from nuclear powerstations by driving solar powered cars and drinking wine out of cardboard bottles.

What people need these days is a lot less passion and a lot more good manners.

Comments

[dsky.livejournal.com]

(I've come over from Itchy's)

*cheers you*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming - the place is a bit of a mess but there's a bean bag free by the fire. Grab a glass of red and something to read.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Please may I have a glass of red and something to read?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Only if you promise to spill it on the rug. I've always hated that rug.

Did you get the picture of you with a glass of red?

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Yes. Judgment reserved until a day when I'm less busy. But thank you for not posting it.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* well even though you said I could, I decided discretion was the finer point...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I want a glass of white wine please. And I'll pass up the books to sit and rant with you. :)

I agreed with everything you said. Well, almost everything anyway. I think we need more passion [well-directed preferrably] *and* good manners. I get really annoyed when people refuse to try just because they are too cynical/uncaring to make the effort.

If everyone did a little extra, a lot can be achieved. But most don't care and when you point someting out to them, they refuse to try because they don't think it can make a difference.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't mind Alsace... there you go.

I'm too lazy to google "All that the triumph of evil requires is that good men do nothing." but it more or less sums up my thoughts on the question.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Did you just say "And I'll pass up the books"?

*head explodes*