ROYAL WEDDING NONSENSE

What's wrong with this picture? (The correct answer is: "Everything")

The plight of millions has been trumped again. This time by a pair of filthy-rich kids getting married.

A Royal Wedding. Media hoopla. Incredible cost to the public purse.

Are we so spiritually impoverished that we somehow need to be "a part" of this? I really don't believe so.

We don't need royal families. Personally, I'm quite convinced we don't need presidents since they do virtually nothing good and plenty that is bad. Many thousands of people die around the globe every day due to poverty related problems and the media feeds us stories about the stratospheric cost of a wedding dress. This is insanity.

Rich people wasting money is not news that we need. I say, abolish all royal families. Throw out all figureheads. Don't worship plastic prophets. These people are not our friends. They don't have our best interests at heart.

I believe most people no longer buy into all this garbage. But if you turned on your TV or looked at a news story on the Internet or in a newspaper this past week, you'd be led to think otherwise. This is the Idiot Culture at work and it's a drug we can't afford, don't need, must kick.

If you need to celebrate something, celebrate your life, your potential, your kids. Celebrate YOUR royal family. Celebrate the opportunity to make this a better world.

Let's focus on what's real and important and not let the mass media spoon-feed us distractions as the climate goes to hell and children starve.

We are better than that.

Take care,
Adrian
FOOTNOTE: In reading the comments threads about the royal wedding on various news sites, it seems the main theme of the "pro" comments is "Boo to the cynics. Thank goodness for a positive news story." This is so very sad. The fact is there are many positive things that the media could report that would be more meaningful to the masses. This isn't a choice between positive and negative. It's a choice between meaningful and absurd, and absurd won again.

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CHILD HUNGER -- THE SCOURGE OF THE PLANET

What do you do if your child says to you "I'm hungry"?

Or, if you don't have a child, what do you recall happening when you said this when you were a kid?

In most cases, I'd assume, Mum/Dad arranged a snack -- or advised you to get it yourself.

Well, guess what: For a lot of kids, food is a luxury. And I'm not even talking about the Third World nations that the "developed world" has so callously exploited and plundered.

Right here in the United States we have our own Third World. I'm not kidding. The distribution of wealth is that criminal -- and has been from Day 1. An alarming number of kids are regularly without enough food. I've read varying reports but I think you'd be pretty safe in saying that something like one in four kids goes to bed hungry at night in America.

ONE IN FOUR! HUNGRY! Not "I need a snack" hungry. I mean empty-belly hungry. Shame on us all for allowing this to happen! Just because these aren't our kids doesn't mean we should ignore this crisis. Here's a news flash: They're all our kids.

Please sign this important petition right now.

And don't stop there. Search the Web for other things you can do/sign/learn about hunger and poverty. Sponsor a child through World Vision or a similar reputable organization (it costs virtually nothing!). Go without something to give to someone more needy. You can afford it and you know it.

But definitely, DEFINITELY, contact your mayors, representatives, senators, prime ministers and presidents and tell them that child hunger -- and poverty in general -- is not okay by you. Write a letter to the editor of your local or city paper -- you can do it online these days. Call up your favorite talk show. But get off your butt and do something.

When there is enough noise, politicians listen.

This is a big issue, but every step counts.

Nothing troubles me more than the rampant poverty on this planet. There is no reason for it. There is enough wealth, enough food. The enforced "vagaries" of capitalist market economics even sees perfectly good food -- "excess production" -- dumped!

Til my last breath I'm going to make some kind of effort to rectify this. And there's nothing at all heroic about that. It's my duty as a privileged human being.

What are you going to do?

Take care and simply... care,
Adrian Zupp
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