Ah, dirty white trash. What image does that evoke for you?
I put the garbage out where it waited for the trash person to arrive, taking it to its final resting place in the sun. Whilst awaiting for limo equivalent transportation its grave site was interrupted by a young couple. The two, scavenging for treasure flipped the lid open, proceeding to ferret around for scraps of gourmet undertakings. After closing the garage door, and backing out, I suddenly stopped. Upset, agitated because I was already behind schedule, I shooed the magpies away, picked up egg shells, leaking containers, and the like putting it back into the bin. Disgusting.
Our topic is consumption. Each day, we will produce trash in mammoth proportions. First of all I must digress. When I say "we" I mean anyone who would be reading this, so that means, an internet user, who reads English. Okay? That will eliminate about 3.5 billion of Earth's inhabitants. So, yeah, each morning as we start with "brekkie" two egg shells, half a slice of toast, maybe a butter container go into the bin. We put our dishes into the dishwasher, after washing off the used scum on the plate. Net result, oh about a litre of water, not including the dishwasher.... I will not keep going, but if one was to ponder for about nine seconds, the amount of refuse going into the trash each day we would realize a few things. What are those few things? Next is production. If we consume, do we produce? What do we produce besides emissions?
Australian police are questioning two doctors in the aftermath of the attempted bombings in the United Kingdom. Slowly sloshing through traffic this evening, the talk show was floating the idea that it is not the young disenchanted middle eastern men who are the main fear among anti terrorism proponents. It is the established, thirty something, educated, middle eastern men. I have to confess, when seeing middle eastern men, in the airport, I sometimes have a fleeting thought they could be terrorists. Yes, I know this is unfair, but be honest, does it happen to you? I think it does. I also wonder if it is a theme which is perpetuated by western media sources causing fear. September eleventh, UK tube bombings, Iraqi, Bali, Israeli, Turkish bombings, all in under 10 years involve those of middle eastern decent. Every morning, as we check the news we are being inundated with these images. So therefore, does it make one racist if they feel a fleeting suspicion when in close contact with middle eastern people while at the airport? I think not. Is it fair? No. Conversely, it would be true, I feel, that in Iran, a great number of the inhabitants there would feel a fleeting suspicion when they came into contact with some of us...... Dirty White Trash!!!
3 comments:
Here is the deal as I see it.
Someone else's junk is another person's treasure.
But in this case, someone else's trash is someone else's Art?
Reminds me of what a cousin of mine once said about what he did for a living. He said, " I take nothing and make a dollar out of it!"
Neat concept hey! But it works.
For example:
- I know that some people take Ostrich poo which comes out in neat little round colored things and coat them with some laquer and make necklaces with them. They sell really good.
- In Calgary they take cow pies and make clocks out of them.
.... but the thing that really makes the bucks is - -
- People taking water out of the tap and putting it in bottles and selling it. Just think about a whole generation of people who think it is NORMAL TO BUY WATER. Even though it costs nothing if you get it from the tap.
A day late and a dollar short but I think I know that the best things in life are free.
2-dayost
i have heard that coke takes vancouver water from the tap and purifies it a bit then sells it and that pepsi does the same but uses calgary water?
Perhaps the internet can help with these problems. It would be pretty easy to get the internet to become a tool by which the public can be a watchdog over the companies that supply our needs.
If you want to buy a product from a company, and they have a complete pictorial view of every step of the production of that product, every ingredient used, every bit of damage done to the environment during its production, a lot of people might take notice. That would give said company quite an edge over others.
For instance, KFC was getting flak recently for raising chickens in torturous conditions. Can any other companies show us some chickens being raised in free pastures, running around in the sunlight? Perhaps give us a complete rundown on all the hormonal injections they receive throughout the course of their lives? Pictures of the needles puncturing their skin? Show video footage of the slaughter to show that it's being done quickly and humanely so they don't suffer long, and so they aren't subjected to frantic fear?
Could a company that manufactures shoes show us the shops where they're made? How many kids do they employ? What are the stats on infant mortality in the places where the shoes are made?
You get the picture?
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