Blog number 156 April 07, 2008
I've got two kinda funny things and one weird one.
1. I was listening to Dolly Parton explaining why she wrote a song called, "Backwoods Barbie" and she told about a woman in her hometown that wore tight clothes, red lipstick and bleached hair. Dolly thought she was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. When she told her mother that she thought the woman very pretty, her mother said, "Oh, she's trash."
Dolly thought, "That's what I want to be when I grow up - trash."
2. I was watching The Soup on the telly and Joel had a clip of this old couple who had won 124 million dollars on the lottery. The couple were pretty blase about the whole thing. The two, sitting in straightback chairs, were first asked by the interviewer if their life had changed any and the old man said in a very monotone voice, "I called my boss and told him I won megabucks and that I wouldn't be in to work."
The interviewer then asked what they were going to buy and the old man said his wife was going to get a Lexus and he was going to get a truck. The old lady, in that same "nothing" look, same monotone, said, "No, I'm going to get a Mercedes."
Joel, the guy who watches these shows so that we don't have to, said, "...and a bra." That's when I noticed that her huge tits were lying on her lap.
And 3. When I read "The Wreck of the Medusa," it told of the people on the raft fighting each other with guns, knives, swords, and fists. One group was trying to tear up the raft, which was made of timbers tied together, so that everyone on board would drown.
Why a person would want to kill others instead of just jumping overboard and ending it all alone is so weird, and the fact that these men that wanted to kill everyone actually formed into groups and planned and plotted to carry out their dastardly deed is beyond what fiction could come up with.
Several of the men would also switch sides, so one could never be sure of one's loyalties.
The book also described other incidences of such behavior in human history.
I am now reading "Dunkirk," the mass evacuation of English and French troops at the start of WW2 when the Germans so quickly overran the Allies front due to bad leadership, bad equipment, bad logistics and poor moral among the French troops.
Waiting to be rescued by the English fleet at Dunkirk amidst artillery, bombings and tanks, which created havoc and unspeakable sights, there were many reports of groups of French soldiers firing at other soldiers who were waiting to be rescued, which sounded a lot like what happened on the raft of the Medusa.
That doesn't sound very much like "survival of the fittest," does it? Isn't that odd, that when things get really rough with large groups of people, some of them try to kill others even though they are all in the same boat?
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