UGLY Human Beings

I'm a big supporter of The Ecologist but I'm beginning to wonder about some of their readers. A feature in the latest issue is, What's UGLY about modern life. I've got to agree with some of the points, iPods, so anti-social; Human Resources, so happy to be mined, me; Legislation, 3000 laws in 10 years and still they twitch for more. Though I wondered about the person wanting to reimpose the Gold Standard. But looking at the website, where extra contributions can be posted, I began to doubt some of the members of the ecology movement. Here's Misanthrope I:

Earth- 07/10/2007 13:45:24

People.
There are somewhere in the region of 6½-7 Billion of them, 60 million in this country alone, barely sentient, clogging up the roads in their metal contraptions, obsessed with ‘celebrity’ and fashion, constantly looking to fulfil their every want and fantasy be it seeking a new high or craving sex (which frankly just results in more of them) and burning up resources like they were infinite. I’m sure some of them have utility but I would do away with most of them if I could."

OK, a bit freaky

the next is just weird, get out, get a life - GOGAL

Dave Pape- 14/10/2007 01:05:34

I saw a free magazine today in Croydon. It was called "What's Local" and the cover article was about... Eva Longoria. I wept bitterly.

Seems an over reaction, a bit Aidrian Molish, especially when you look at Eva Longoria, surely the nicest thing in Croydon at the moment.

thanks to Hollywood Celebrity picture & Gossip Rag for the pic and their take on Eva being pulled....over

next, go on girl let it out, I quite like this one but again that bit about human beings....disturbing

claire slater- 17/10/2007 18:05:51

Alcohol, drugs, plastic bags.......plastic in general, excess packaging, doggy do, cigarette butts, chewing gum, cars, planes, power stations, sports clothing, inner city estates, polluted rivers full of shopping trolleys, buses, abusive kids, abusive adults, trashy magazines, trashy tv programmes, the pleasure people seem to take in seeing other peoples misery/downfall, left over food, supermarkets and large out of city retail parks, brand names, chemicals put in everything we use (is nothing natural anymore!?), mass production of animals,mass production of anything,selfishness, vainity, greed, ................human beings

This one is a bit of a moaner - GOGABJ - Go Out, Get A Better Job

Ian- 20/10/2007 06:24:50

Paid work.

It's doing something you most likely hate in order to retain the illusion of possession of things which in reality actually possess you - your home, your TV, your car. The average workplace forces normal, decent people to discard their normal sense of decency and humanity in order to ensure that they are not denied the right to remain a slave to the company or to their money and 'possessions'. So many of us hate the lives we live but we hang onto them desparately via our jobs not because we love them but we're scared of the uncertainty of being without them.

Though, finally, Rob Illingworth has a point

I think that turning your “office game” into the central feature in October’s Ecologist is lazy journalism. A handful of wall postings and, bingo, “modern culture is in crisis” What bilge. Instead of “exhorting” your readers to add to this Page 101 you should invite constructive contributions in the vein of Laura Sevier’s “Scrub for Victory.” (not on the web; GOABTM)

Shit, I've just been doing lazy blogging.