that thousands of children are in pain and starving to death at this very moment and WE have just made and are about to release like the 5th remake of the bloody and useless "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and many of us will probably go to see it?
Helloo??
2006-10-16 13:55:05 · 13 answers · asked by zigzagidiot 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Is a clean shave more important?
Or brightly colored nail polish?
Or a bottle of Viagra?
Or a change in hair color?
Or the detailing on the car?
Or another 10 pounds of sugar or ice cream?
Or a second helping of beef?
O a new pair of shoes that can be worn twice.
A remake of a movie is small potatoes.
2006-10-16 14:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 76⤊ 0⤋
Some one said earlier:
Is a clean shave more important?
Or brightly colored nail polish?
Or a bottle of Viagra?
Or a change in hair color?
Or the detailing on the car?
Or another 10 pounds of sugar or ice cream?
Or a second helping of beef?
O a new pair of shoes that can be worn twice
If I have a beard you will not value me and you will not hire me.
If I do not wear nail polish you will not value me and will call me a lesbian.
If I do not perform sexually, you will not value me and will call me less than a man.
We do what is valued in our society or we pay the price by being ostracized by our culture. So we are all to blame for the evils of the world. Even those who question our use of consumer products because.
If I embrace commercialism, you will not value me, and will call me a republican.
2006-10-17 01:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by Squid Vicious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the face of it not much. The problems facing humanity are so vast that from the perspective of one human being they seem insurmountable. I find that blaming and shaming has never achieved anything other than alienate us from each other.
So what else is there for the little person to do? Adopt Gandhi's maxim; be the change you want to see in the world and lighten one person's burden. If we can. If we cannot then at least don't
cause suffering to anyone.
2006-10-16 21:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Freddy F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello Dahling! How have you been? Always the provacature. Good question. You have got them thinking. Isn't it pure drivel to put upon our backs the sweat and blood of third world countries that make 14 cents an hour so we can have bargains as our country falls apart? The name of the game in the world of commercialism is consume consume and we have been taught that we must be titillated and amused at all times.
Well, it's all FNORDS I say. The FNORDS are all around us. It's only 'stuff folks.'
2006-10-17 01:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by honorbright24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with your point entirely.
What the heck are we doing re-making crappy movie when we can just put a camera in some third world country? We can call the show:
"Survivor East Timor" -- that would be a hit for sure!
2006-10-16 21:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by hq3 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The funny thing is, you could leave out the part about the suffering of the children, and the question would still mean the same thing
2006-10-16 21:04:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The many faces of humanity !
2006-10-16 21:09:13 · answer #7 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"it" says the exact same thing "its" been saying for hundreds of years.....
there will always be poor, hungry, and 'less than' members of the same society. the real question is: whats the benefit?
2006-10-16 20:58:05 · answer #8 · answered by shatzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sucks, huh? What a sorry state of affairs. Look at africa.
2006-10-16 21:08:20 · answer #9 · answered by tallspot07 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we are a throng of self-absorbed twits, except for me, of course.
2006-10-17 08:51:27 · answer #10 · answered by }pixie{ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋