History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: i've gotten permission to post a pm that was sent to me earlier, about first world problems for some [View all]dballance
(5,756 posts)direct her to us here on DU.
Some days I want to ask for a group called "'Serious People and Serious Discussions' but I'm not sure how I'd define that.
It just seems too many times here there are so many people who want to have a serious discussion who get drowned out by the noise of people whose lives, at this time, are so easily equated with lattes and the front pages of papers and magazines that no longer practice journalism - at least not by the idealistic definition of journalism I learned. They overtake serious discussion with discussion of modern-day celebrities and their foibles. They overtake serious discussion with discussions of how they'll outfit their new offspring in brand-label wares and clothes. They twiddle over just what some celebrity is doing to the detriment of scrutiny within their own sphere, within their own control.
Like zombies they line up at the WalMart for the latest bargain regardless of the knowledge people in third-world countries have been beaten and barely paid to make that flimsy WalMart couture that they will be lucky to wear more than once before it disintegrates. Oh, but that's not really a problem. We just throw stuff out all the time. It magically disappears. We put it in those magical plastic bags from whatever trash bag company tells us their bags are biodegradable. Sure, they're biodegradable with a half-life of about a thousand years.
We are a sick, sick people. Mother Nature will eventually laugh as we go down, not in flames of the Bible, but of our own ignorance that will make our planet uninhabitable. Slowly and painfully.
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