tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16319171.post113198941413060051..comments2012-07-03T00:01:14.495-07:00Comments on THE ARCADES PROJECT: A little tiradeAndrew Fieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00837535447180621963noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16319171.post-62660167173890417142008-10-12T16:07:00.000-07:002008-10-12T16:07:00.000-07:00There is one sight more sickening, and it's the si...There is one sight more sickening, and it's the sight of a complacent prick sneering at society's complacency without ever quite cottoning on that he's a symptom of it, just a different type of tumour.<BR/><BR/>Since being rich precludes you from giving a fuck about anything, or indeed being a human being at all, let's just <I>never do anything for anyone ever again</I> but sit and sneer at poverty and despair simply because a famous person is telling us about it.<BR/><BR/>Of <I>course</I> charity drives are essentially palliatives, band-aids over wounds caused by a greater sickness endemic to society itself, a sickness which can't be combatted with money but with education, understanding and work. But only a genuine simpleton would attack the painkillers; they don't cure the disease but they still help in the short term. You don't jump up and down on paracetamol just because it's a treatment and not a cure. You take the treatment and hope for a cure. You attempt to educate the public on the root causes of poverty and injustice. You don't sneer at them for trying to help, even if they don't understand how small that scale is.<BR/><BR/>And you certainly don't throw a paddy just because some rich people care about stuff.<BR/><BR/>In conclusion, for all your superiority, your ability to see the artifice in celebrity endorsements of <I>charitable causes for God's sake</I>, and your fantastically unique view of the wider issues at play, you're still contributing less to the world than Fiona Bruce, or Bono, or Terry Wogan. You're part of the problem. Get out of the road.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16319171.post-1132056616843631952005-11-15T04:10:00.000-08:002005-11-15T04:10:00.000-08:00"We are the children/ We are in need/ If you want ..."We are the children/ We are in need/ If you want to help/Help Children in Need"<BR/><BR/>Why should those lines course through my brain like cyanide; vast chourses in kiddies similarly plucked not from an orphanage/hospital but St.Thomas on the Bourne's award winning choir. <BR/><BR/>Tonight YOU have helped us raise £60m!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR/>Now go buy everything you see on Big Brother.Simon Hodgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00045940364682507474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16319171.post-1132020067655487532005-11-14T18:01:00.000-08:002005-11-14T18:01:00.000-08:00I think it's the bear, myself. Pudsy. There's some...I think it's the bear, myself. <I>Pudsy.</I> There's something slightly disturbing about that eye patch. It's a mascot made cute for cuteness's sake. Or it might be the detestable presence of Terry Wogan and others. There's just something particularly sickening about the whole CiN experience that doesn't apply to any other charity event.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com