primitivepeople

I'm amazed at the vast amount of misery that modern consumer capitalism brings to the majority of people, and how we all just put up with it.

Our working lives crush every last drop of spirit out of us. How could anyone design corporate cultures so utterly horrible? Who thought that modern office life was a good idea? When you look at the best that humans come up with - the most breathtaking and exciting things we can do - it's so tragic that we only manage to do this so little of the time. The rest of the time we spout management bollocks and are forced to interact with each other in the most revolting ways possible.

Ugh.

It's all down to money, of course. We all show surprising loyalty to that mercilessly cruel god, Economic Growth. As soon as he gets angry, all of us (apart from the grubby little minions who unquestioningly do his business) suffer his wrath - but no-one seems to question why. No-one takes issue with the outrageously unfair tax laws that benefit the rich, no-one questions the completely fucked-up housing market that only benefits those who own far more property than they need anyway, and no-one seems to want to do much about the fact that the economy is just a giant resource-wasting pyramid scheme anyway.

Those at the top have worked out ways to stay there, and a load of clever means to suck money out of the poor and powerless people at the bottom. And so it goes on and on and on...

Anyway, don't mind me - nothing to see here besides some ill-informed ranting and poorly expressed opinion, but the world pisses me off sometimes.

Revolution, anyone? I'm up for it if you are. :)

Poll #1425909 Music
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

Which of these albums should I buy?

The weekend was bitchin'. On Saturday, we went out to Epsom Downs and walked around and explored and shit like that, with the children and my nephew. It was very nice up there. I tried to find a couple of caches, but it was a naff effort - I hold Abby responsible for this. I can never find them when she's around - she has some bizarre effect on me, stealing my caching mojo.

Pictures of the day...voila.









On Sunday, we went straight into town after church, and had a somewhat spontaneous day out, that unfolded rather nicely. Emerging from Embankment tube station, we heard a band tuning up in the gardens nearby and went to investigate. Turns out it was the Oregon Ambassadors of Music, a group of high school musicians from 80 schools in...errr...Oregon. There were loads of them - a big band plus a choir. We intended just to stay briefly, but they turned out to be so good that we saw the whole show - they were most excellent.


Band


Band and choir

We went and got cold drinks after this and then took a Thames Clipper boat from Embankment to the O2. I was pleasantly surprised by how cheap this was, and how much fun it was as well. Views are great.




Bizarre explosion-in-a-nail-factory sculpture at the O2


Learn to bend it at the David Beckham Academy!

Here's a couple of shots of the O2/Millennium Dome. I really wanted to go to the Dome in 2000, but managed to be disorganised for an entire year and never managed it, mainly because Abby was pregnant for the first half of it, and we had a small baby for the rest of it. Shocking timing. Tsk.





Turns out Madonna was playing last night, and she got booed because she turned up late and pissed off all the fans. I lost all the respect I had for her after she developed a fondness for overturning legal bodies and stealing African children, 'cos Angelina Jolie had some. Grrr.

Anyway, you get the idea. It was a great weekend of interesting things in town and country, and it was good enough to keep me relatively chipper at work today, so that can't be bad. Work was actually surprisingly good, so life is really OK, all things considered.