I was considering writing an article about what life truly entails, what choices and sacrifices one suffers on the breaking of each day, however after having read about which celebrities distended stomachs have burst their offal all over a Mediterranean beach, watched what is to all intensive purposes some twats in a house, mistaken your own pitiful opinions for political discussion, and rearranged your collection of t-shirts with pithy slogans on them you find the sun has shit its rays across the sky and the day has already completely fucked off. I know from experience that if I sit down in the morning with a head like piss stirred up with a bad stick with the intention to work, I will inevitably still be staring into a computer monitor five hours later with nothing to show for my time except newly learnt facts about imaginary animals and an expression on my face which shouts “God’s Balls!”. Entertainment which is supposed to quell our boredom and free moments begins to push out and become our schedule, people organise their day or week around their favourite show, and other’s entertainment signals the passing and importance of a certain day in the same way that others might with church.We devised these luxuries to improve our lives, and they end up becoming them. Having to stay up to date with the fictional relationship troubles of people in soap operas WHICH DON’T EVEN EXIST AND HAVE NO FUCKING BEARING ON ANYTHING! Yet you feel obliged to keep abreast of television shows and magazines and films and websites, when you full know they will never end. There will be no conclusion. No knowledge or insight to be gleaned from their resolution. It may be people’s disillusioned wish to create a sense of familiarity, a routine and stability to which their weeks play out, like the co-ordinated steps of troops, except marching in a state of increasing physical decay down an avenue of organ failure and death. Of course we are all going to die so how we manage the transient nature of time would not be a problem if not for the content of our distractions.
Even on the news between reports on the state of Darfur and catastrophes in China we are updated on the positions of some leg crazy vague personages, as if under the impression that any event or occurrence constitutes news. Where do we draw the line? Does anything which happens class as news? A tour guide forgets where he is going and annoys some policemen? Some actors in a new play are being stroppy? Dame Judy Dench trips on a light bulb? The news is surely there to inform on the complex interlocking workings of both international and domestic events, the waves of effect that chaotically change and alter daily life. The likelihood of news about a pop star taking illegal drugs serving your in the real world is remote to the point of being a fuck in a monastery’s chance, you are never going to interact with said person, they are not going to interact with you, they do not even care about you. Why you should feel personally enraged by the actions of someone whose field of interaction and influence at no point intersects with your own is beyond all rational logic.The wasting disease does not just end there, there are of course the many many products and items conceived for no other reason that to create money and thousands upon thousands of jobs devoted to an item which need never exist. There are the things advertised as conveniences, while being only the solution to a problem we manufacturer ourselves. There are iterations and variations on a theme we never needed nor could afford to have in a world which can’t even take care of its starving. I know a person who I would be ashamed to call an acquaintance who has a fashionably large stock of at least four mobile phones at any one time, even to recycle or pass on or donate these items would not address the issue, they are still being made. Materials and energy and resources are still being flung into a saturated world. To say I hate such wasteful and ignorant people is not quite right, hate is a strong word. I need a fuck of a lot more than just strong.


















