Life in a Modern World

Life in a Modern World

Some of my thoughts on bizarre aspects of our modern world?

Unreality TV

Is it me or is the world getting weirder? This is a world where people
watch TV programmes like Big Brother. People sit around on a settee
watching the telly watching people sitting on a settee. I'm beginning
to get a headache. Now if they all had little cages on their heads with
rats in like in George Orwell's novel 1984?that would be interesting.
Maybe we could even throw in a few starving lions. It wouldn't so much
be Jade's been evicted as Jade's been masticated. Mind you even lions
have some taste. Now these reality TV people are starting to get
clever. The latest TV show is called Back to Reality and it features
former reality TV show contestants. Is it me or are these buggers
taking it just a little too far? Well the next reality TV show I'd like
to see is Nuclear House. It will feature all your favourite reality
show stars in a house in the middle of a desert and a very very large
nuclear weapon.

Text Messages

Have you considered the absurdity of text messages? With mobile phones
as popular as they are I wonder how far the bizarre text message
shorthand will go. Will future Shakespeare wanna be's type things
like:

U R B U Tiful Baby,
Can I Compare U 2 a new Nokia T3,000,000e (retail price 3339
euros),
U R dead fit luv,
Luv Romeo
Xxxx

Will our literacy evaporate like petrol in the mid day sun? Will future
novels be abbreviated down to 5 pages? Will the Sun newspaper be
considered a highbrow wordy tome? I am sure time will tell if we don't
all die first from global warming.

The Internet

The greatest collection of information the world has ever seen and also
a good place to buy cheap CDs. Some would have you believe it is the
work of the devil. Others hail it as the place they have met the love
of their life in a chat room called "Meet the love of your life forget
about the wife". Clean sites, dirty sites, mad sites, sad sites, news,
views, porn, scorn, curtains, e-bay, e-jay, blue jay, google, pot
noodle, alta vista, naked twister, hot or not, friends reunited,
relatives uninvited. Love it or hate the Internet is here to stay in
all of its insane immensity get connected or be assimilated.

Blame

It's your fault! You were negligent I am going to sue! Don't try to
wriggle out of it.