I have been pondering what I should write about in
my humble little blog tonight and my mind remains blank. You see I try to write
a light-hearted blog with the occasional bit of personal insight on the world
and a few mad poems about odd things. But I also feel when particularly types
of sad news hit the headlines it is at least slightly respectful to be a bit aware
of those events and how some may feel.
We now live (here in Britain) in a world of 24 hour
news and multimedia comment and the result of all this is a situation where on
TV and in cyberspace, news of terrible tragedies sit side by side with odd
little stories like a cat doing a Rubik’s cube or mermaids sighted offshore in
the North East of Scotland. Our media
eat these stories both big and small, important and of no consequence with
equal ferocity so that with time they all blur into one thing. If you add the
adverts of commercial news media then the blur can create even more extremes. I
just sometimes wonder if those much younger than myself ever become desensitised
to events unless they have some sort of personal implication. I can
get entirely perplexed at times when say the final of a talent show will swamp
the likes of Twitter and a terrible earthquake killing hundreds on the same day
can pass almost unnoticed and folk tweet OMG because a sword swallowing parrot
that can sing The Ace of Spades has won X factor and not the young woman from
the sausage factor. I suspect that young woman may have been daydreaming a bit
and missed a certain death sausage . . . . . . . . Yes that was a major story
for me and that’s for sure.
Well that’s it a little ramble from inside the
mind of Rob Z Tobor. You will notice this is a small story of little consequence,
but I’m waving my pointy stick at the world a bit, but in a friendly and non-aggressive
way, life is too short and precious to be wasted on aggression.
As a final passing point do please try to help and
be friendly to you fellow man. Remember if there is a God he will I suspect
forgive mistakes but not hate, and if you think that is not right just wait
until you meet God, by which time of course it may be a bit late to say sorry,
Good blog, I'll wave my pointy stick too on this side of the world. I don't actually want to stick anybody, just wave it threatenly. 😏
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feel I need to tell folk that I am aware that there is a lot of things that are wrong or bad or sad or make me angry, but it was never the plan to do that here. This was always planned as a slightly odd chirpy blog with an optimistic outlook. . . . even when announcing the End of the World, which I have done a few times now.
DeleteBut I think God would shout if I did not from time to time mention that the world or at least us humans sometimes sort of lose the point and dont see the worlds beauty.
Excellent post Rob.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I missed the story on the rubiks cube playing cat.
Thats the kind of think I'd pick up on usually.
Cats are awful creatures at the best of times but they are now able to complete a complex puzzle like the Rubiks cube, we may all be doomed.
Mr H the cat appears to have cheated it owned one of those electronic self shuffling Rubik cubes and pretended that it knew what it was doing.
DeleteNever trust cats.
I was in the hospice shop today doing my good deed so I feel I have done my bit for the day and will chill by the TV for a while now.
Okay, you can't trust cats. But I'm enamored of my two furries. I tend to get my news online a bit behind everyone else. We cancelled our cable years ago and I don't miss it.
ReplyDeleteI think the online news is generally more up to date than most TV these days
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