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February 24 If 100000000 People Join My Organic Bycycle Carbon Point Spa Facebook Group I Will Perform Felatio To A Third World CountryFor all our absurd humanitarian efforts, nothing strikes me as more ridiculous than the facebook application. While good in intent, it combines the trend-factor of facebook with the seriousness of global crisis to exacerbate this growing 'think globally act locally' movement.
-Organic Furniture (wool mattresses, sustainable bamboo hardwood flooring, and reclaimed pine armoires) Not that I'm implying that what we do does not have an affect on the world around us, but the opposite; buying organic wood chai lattes still depletes something somewhere, joining a facebook group that buys carbon emission points doesn't solve the problem of an overusing and lazy community, our problems are not so shallow and meaningless that they can be solved so easily. And lo, the naysayers rise up and accuse me of ignorance, that these environmentalists are raising awareness about the global issues of sheep depletion; raising awareness is great as a first step, but is it really the cure for the multifaceted problem of helping the environment? In all honesty, writing a letter to John Baird about tax increases for heavy polluting industries would probably do more good than bitching about free-range chickens fed on organic chai on the facebook group titled "Stop Killing Free Range Chickens who Feed on Organic Chai! 100000 Posts and I will Dance around Naked!". Our problems are not so simple, and while we have been waiting for the technology card to play itself and solve all of our problems, facebook is simply not our techno-jesus that'll redeem all our sins. Per Esempio: the argument that popular environmentalism is a new subculture that targets middle/upper class yuppies who buy organic and sustainable in the efforts of seeming globally aware. While scathing in their commentary about the dogs who don't purchase organic, the lower-class peons are out making a living and putting a food on their tables.. who has time to go to organic chai bicycle spas? You know what that sounds like? Yet another divide that separates the rich from the poor.
 The modern-day Yuppie's fascination with organic/local can be traced back to their childhood dream of living in a Swiss Robinson Crusoe Treehouse. Check this treehouse out! It is sick, dog |
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