Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
Fences and Walls
Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem
The Wall dwarfs humans and cars
What do you think of this?
Beit Hanina, East Jerusalem
The Wall dwarfs humans and cars
What do you think of this?
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Yet another tedious update
Added some more links in the sidebar. My mate Hammy is getting a project underway called the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice, and yes it is spelt CENTRE not CENTER as everyone else seems to be doing it these days. It certainly sounds important, and has a kewl looking logo, as designed by Stu, bringing me to the design link of the week. Stu's site is very slick, and he is a great guy to have a beer with. Then I was reading the comments section on Hammy's blog and find this guy called Mad Hatter making funny comments and decide he deserves a link in the blog section. His output is called Tramspotting. That's all with the housekeeping.
Now on to the debates I have been reading.
"Media is the devil, it's old, unwielding, tied to the money making class and its interests, fails to deliver any sort of betterment to society, etc, etc ad infinitum." So what? Read it with the university education you all have and dissect it, extract what you need from it and leave the rest to keep your chips warm. Or write a research paper. Don't whine about it. It is not endearing.
Porn. So some people enjoy porn and some people don't. Do the people that like it have the right to force those that don't to watch it? Of course not. But do the people that find it abhorrent have the right to impose their view? Why, of course. Moral superiority (real or imagined) has been the justification for actrocities performed throughout history. Need I list examples? Give up on the value-laden shit and allow people to decide for themselves what is right and wrong. If, as a society, we decide to punish people for acting a certain way, don't tell them they are wrong, just say, hey, there's more of us and this is what we are going to do. I'm sure you think you are right, so go be right in our prison.
The main issue is that we are finding a symptom and calling it a disease.
I feel incoherence washing over me, and I am reminded why I have been so quiet. Me out.
Added some more links in the sidebar. My mate Hammy is getting a project underway called the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice, and yes it is spelt CENTRE not CENTER as everyone else seems to be doing it these days. It certainly sounds important, and has a kewl looking logo, as designed by Stu, bringing me to the design link of the week. Stu's site is very slick, and he is a great guy to have a beer with. Then I was reading the comments section on Hammy's blog and find this guy called Mad Hatter making funny comments and decide he deserves a link in the blog section. His output is called Tramspotting. That's all with the housekeeping.
Now on to the debates I have been reading.
"Media is the devil, it's old, unwielding, tied to the money making class and its interests, fails to deliver any sort of betterment to society, etc, etc ad infinitum." So what? Read it with the university education you all have and dissect it, extract what you need from it and leave the rest to keep your chips warm. Or write a research paper. Don't whine about it. It is not endearing.
Porn. So some people enjoy porn and some people don't. Do the people that like it have the right to force those that don't to watch it? Of course not. But do the people that find it abhorrent have the right to impose their view? Why, of course. Moral superiority (real or imagined) has been the justification for actrocities performed throughout history. Need I list examples? Give up on the value-laden shit and allow people to decide for themselves what is right and wrong. If, as a society, we decide to punish people for acting a certain way, don't tell them they are wrong, just say, hey, there's more of us and this is what we are going to do. I'm sure you think you are right, so go be right in our prison.
The main issue is that we are finding a symptom and calling it a disease.
I feel incoherence washing over me, and I am reminded why I have been so quiet. Me out.
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
It's amazing what spending half an hour a day reading the blogs of friends can do for an expat's sense of alienation. The effect can go either way - a further feeling of isolation or a sense that no matter what oceans stand in our way a quickly typed, badly spelled message can engander togetherness, familiarity and love.
I don't always write so much anymore, my bad, and I'm not sure why. I check and read blog after blog after blog to see what is new in the world I once inhabited, but usually fail to add to the debate. So I guess all I'm trying to say is that even though I have stopped yelling from rooftops, I am still listening quietly from the shadows, and will occasionally pop up with witty, knowing comments.
And here is an article that would make you laugh if it wasn't so sad.
I don't always write so much anymore, my bad, and I'm not sure why. I check and read blog after blog after blog to see what is new in the world I once inhabited, but usually fail to add to the debate. So I guess all I'm trying to say is that even though I have stopped yelling from rooftops, I am still listening quietly from the shadows, and will occasionally pop up with witty, knowing comments.
And here is an article that would make you laugh if it wasn't so sad.
