There is nothing wrong with ideals

Its everywhere, the plastic bag society has taken over. Its the label that counts, the bag you carry not whats in it that counts. Its the quantity, the bling, not the quality, that means something. How loud is your mobile phone ring tone?

And it was all summed up by an article in the Independent Newspaper by Catherine Townsend. The article was ostensily about how many sexual partners you had on your ‘List’.

What is that all about…we are truly living in the world of the counting machine, where soul and sense and spirit mean nothing in the face of ‘how many’, ‘how much’, ‘how big’ and so on.

The world where celebrity rules, and bleak is realy the new black, where we care more about what Robbie did that how our neighbours are, where its not the words you communicate that matter but the style of the phone you speak into.

Its not that i am prudish about sex and sexuality, about numbers, about girls or boys and how many partners they have had. No its more about another thing being reduced to the numbers. What priveliged world does Ms Townsend exist in, that world of media singletons, where the figure ONE must be somehow overcome by the counting of everything else, and even if the figure TWO is reached, it is still not enough.

I am ranting like Victor Meldrew, perhaps i give this all more credence, when it is really a boring little piece of a tedious rarified world, of course if you are in it counting away like mad and shagging like crazy it is probabaly fantastic.

Meanwhile Rio Ferdinand (the erstwhile Footballer and some say greatest defender of his generation wants to be paid £115,000 a week, and 5000 people got notice that they were being made redundant at Rovers Longbridge Factory.

Bring back people, caring, good hearts, the good of the nation, loving you neighbour, community, open minds, and lets frown on the more than you mentality, the plastic bag society. There is nothing wrong with ideals.

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