A developed society?... your asking yourself. Well I too am questioning what the aim of this blog spot is too? To be honest it is a free for all on the most randomination of topics. From how your brother talks a lot of crap (as mine is doing so now) to how consumer culture has chewed us up and is ready to spit us out. As my attention is usually focused on things I love such as Mangoes and the soon to be jailed rapper T.I I was going to go on a spree of topical convo's surrounding such cultural necessities. But not long ago I attempted to start doing research for a photo essay I have to conjure for JCM 3100 module aka Photojournalism and came across P.A.P blog (http://filipspagnoli.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/human-rights-facts-8/), a blog dedicated to human rights and found the image above which was a common image I see more than often in the press. What really struck me was the comments about famine, one even saying "I feel sorry for them ………… NOT." Ok so there are losers out there who are too selfish and ignorant to care but the people who pretend to give a dame but are really more concerned about the latest going on in X-factor or which iPod to get next truly receive my pity. And to be brutally honest it is the majority of us!!Consumer culture and greed has made the world in to what it is today... advertisements are controlling our desires and programmes such as " I'm a pathetic, washed up/wannabe celebrity...Get me out of here!!" are turning our attention elsewhere to making us forgot that not everyone has got a apple pie, Ben and Jerry's or even... yes, Rubicon mango to come home to. I'm not saying let's all give up the things we love, because I'll surely be dead without my daily dose of mango juice, but take the time to reflect on the suffering that is hidden out there and think about how you can make a change. And of course you don't see hunger, you feel hunger and I am definitely feeling their hunger.
Mangolicious Out
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