f4f3 | Counter-rant

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.