the world of gayeSOOKY LA LA'S
July 9th 2009 01:39
More and more we are having decisions about our lives taken out of our hands by governments, minority groups and self interested big business. I really believe we are so mollycoddled by laws and health nazis we have become a population of sooky la la's. There are a few things that are now starting to interfere with my freedom of choice and I can't help feeling that even though they would have us all believe it is for our own good there is a sinister aspect creeping in to all our lives.
The other day while listening to the news there was a story informing me that in the UK they are thinking about paying people a pound for every pound they loose in the effort to fight obesity. Okay, the intentions sound good BUT where is the personal responsibility for our actions. Do we hand over everyday routine actions such as our meals to the government? Is it more about money than health? I think it is.
These bloody governments, banks and big corporations are making more money than ever before and they are looking for ways to make more. People will put up thier hands in outrage that I dare suggest we leave people to get fatter and fatter, but surely we should be able to control what goes in our own mouths. How would people feel if an official legislated what meals you can make for your kids?
Then we had the madness (in my opinion) of a school in Queensland banning kids from doing cartwheels. Yes, they may hurt themselves while they having some fun, but kids have been doing cartwheels and rolling down grassy hills for years and as far as I know nobody has died from it yet !! The boys can continue playing footy and soccer but the girls can't do cartwheels.........WHAT. Once again I believe it is all about money, the terror that they may be sued by parents because they allowed a child to be a child. Of course kids get hurt playing, but they get over it and I can guarantee as soon as they are better they will want to do another cartwheel. We buy them expensive toys and spend "quality time" with them but gasp in horror if they get a scratch playing games that bring them joy and don't cost anything.
And the insane quest for perfection that I am now starting to see in my own family really worries me. The world has gotten carried away with looking good and wrinkle free and if we are not careful we will have a world of clones. We preach confidence and a good self image to children while at the same time worshipping the outside, and not the substance of a person. We watch reality shows like Ten Years Younger and gasp in admiration at the what the doctors can do with botox, why aren't we watching reality shows about real heroes and gasping in amazement at what a heart surgeon can do?
Meanwhile we have the absolute condemnation of smokers. I am so sick of being made to feel like an outcast because I smoke. Yes I know it's disgusting,and yes I know it will probably kill me, and yes I know I am an idiot because of it. BUT I am not a murderer or a rapist. The argument about the cost to the health system doesn't cut it either. They now want to put cigarettes up to $20.00 a packet in an effort to stop people smoking. I can just imagine the government rubbing thier hands in glee at even more money coming in from "dirty" smokers. We already pay about two or three dollars tax on every packet, so at the end of twenty years we have paid a lot more tax than others and yet we are treated like lepers. I don't like alcohol, and I think the damage it does to families and women is horrendous but I don't treat people like outcasts because of it.
There are camera's watching us everywhere because there is so much anti social behaviour that is out of control now. But even if criminals are caught, we take the softly softly approach and treat them like victims anyway...........the laws in Australia are a joke. We have become an extreme world. When new suggestions are made or political correctness raises its ridiculous head, people just accept it. Not all changes are for the better and letting do gooders take over our lives inch by sneaky inch is a big mistake. I had two parents to teach me how to behave, I don't need more. And as for governments trying to get us to lead healthier lives, bullshit, they just don't want to hand over thier money that we have given to them in the first place, to look after sick people.
The other day while listening to the news there was a story informing me that in the UK they are thinking about paying people a pound for every pound they loose in the effort to fight obesity. Okay, the intentions sound good BUT where is the personal responsibility for our actions. Do we hand over everyday routine actions such as our meals to the government? Is it more about money than health? I think it is.
Then we had the madness (in my opinion) of a school in Queensland banning kids from doing cartwheels. Yes, they may hurt themselves while they having some fun, but kids have been doing cartwheels and rolling down grassy hills for years and as far as I know nobody has died from it yet !! The boys can continue playing footy and soccer but the girls can't do cartwheels.........WHAT. Once again I believe it is all about money, the terror that they may be sued by parents because they allowed a child to be a child. Of course kids get hurt playing, but they get over it and I can guarantee as soon as they are better they will want to do another cartwheel. We buy them expensive toys and spend "quality time" with them but gasp in horror if they get a scratch playing games that bring them joy and don't cost anything.
And the insane quest for perfection that I am now starting to see in my own family really worries me. The world has gotten carried away with looking good and wrinkle free and if we are not careful we will have a world of clones. We preach confidence and a good self image to children while at the same time worshipping the outside, and not the substance of a person. We watch reality shows like Ten Years Younger and gasp in admiration at the what the doctors can do with botox, why aren't we watching reality shows about real heroes and gasping in amazement at what a heart surgeon can do?
Meanwhile we have the absolute condemnation of smokers. I am so sick of being made to feel like an outcast because I smoke. Yes I know it's disgusting,and yes I know it will probably kill me, and yes I know I am an idiot because of it. BUT I am not a murderer or a rapist. The argument about the cost to the health system doesn't cut it either. They now want to put cigarettes up to $20.00 a packet in an effort to stop people smoking. I can just imagine the government rubbing thier hands in glee at even more money coming in from "dirty" smokers. We already pay about two or three dollars tax on every packet, so at the end of twenty years we have paid a lot more tax than others and yet we are treated like lepers. I don't like alcohol, and I think the damage it does to families and women is horrendous but I don't treat people like outcasts because of it.
There are camera's watching us everywhere because there is so much anti social behaviour that is out of control now. But even if criminals are caught, we take the softly softly approach and treat them like victims anyway...........the laws in Australia are a joke. We have become an extreme world. When new suggestions are made or political correctness raises its ridiculous head, people just accept it. Not all changes are for the better and letting do gooders take over our lives inch by sneaky inch is a big mistake. I had two parents to teach me how to behave, I don't need more. And as for governments trying to get us to lead healthier lives, bullshit, they just don't want to hand over thier money that we have given to them in the first place, to look after sick people.
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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very well said, i think about things like that all the time . . . as a community we value the most stupid and vain things while important endeavours go unfunded
i might write something on it . . .
Comment by the world of gaye
batty
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I watched a British Programme about this subject and although it was done in a humourous way it really made me think. We take what should be progress and run wild with it and I thin we end up going backwards. I remember when comouters came in and we were told it would create so much more leisure time to spend with our children...........what as load of bullshit that was. There are so many modern ideas that veer off in the wrong direction and muddle society up even more, and we are losing control over our own lives. I just don't think people have enough time to realise it.
Comment by Cheryl J
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Don't even get me started on banks. Greedy bastards!
Comment by the world of gaye
batty
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Comment by Janet Collins
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To do just about anything nowadays you need some sort of certification or registration that it really is ridiculous. The individual is totally regulated yet - even though our reporters and governments tell us otherwise - our companies and large institutions get away with blue murder...ie look what happened with some of the corporate collapses, etc.
It certainly is about time governments put a bit more effort into controlling the big organisations rather than concentrate their energies on the individual.
Interesting post.
Comment by the world of gaye
batty
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Comment by Kleonaptra
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And bravo the smoker. I want to cheer and pump my fist in the air whenever I see a fellow smoker. Choice is choice. Living is living. I think we forgot how.