Thursday, 14 April 2016

Today's five observations of society

Based on what I see in the news, or what passes for news, I'm pretty sure the end of the world will be instigated by Twitter, not nuclear weapons or environmental catastrophe.


The mobile phone and take-out food are the two greatest threats to intellectual progress. At the university where I study, there is way too much of both in the library. In the room there where I am sitting now, I have plain view of a discarded 1 quart fruit juice carton someone just left behind in the corridor. The adjacent bookshelves are used as telephone booths.


In Canada, our government is bringing people here from Syria to escape a repressive government. Canada's also selling military equipment to Saudi Arabia, which also has a repressive government. Does this make any sense?

Jogging pants in public.  This has to end.  We’re always hearing about how people need respect and affirmation.  Why don’t they dress like they have some respect for themselves?


In my neighbourhood, city crews have gone around and placed orange traffic cones next to each pothole.  That’s a lot of cones.  Why don’t they just skip a step and fix the streets instead?  People are running over them or kids are stealing them.

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