I Don't Want To Hear It...

I'll care about what the world's religious leaders/churches think/say/do when they all divest themselves of their riches and give those resources to the poor... 

I'll care about what the world's business/government leaders think/say/do when they all divest themselves of their riches and give those resources to the poor...

I'll care what the world's social elite/celebrities think/say/do when they all divest themselves of their riches and give those resources to the poor...

I'll care about "priceless art" and "precious jewels" when we don't have a single poor, starving person left on a planet that's being raped, pillaged and trashed...

 

An Apple A Day...

... doesn't keep death at bay - for Steve Jobs or anyone else...

I guess it's a sign of how far out of left/right field I have come, when the hooplah about Steve Jobs dying sets my brain in motion to see puns about "jobs" and "jobless" everywhere in what's being posted on the internet...

And makes me giggle (almost hysterically) when I see media outlets advertise their "live" events re Jobs' death on the same Twitter "moment" that other outlets are highlighting the plight of starving children in North Korea... 

Who needs/deserves the attention more? A dead Jobs or almost dead/saveable children? 

We are, I think, certifiably insane, living in a crazy, crazy world....

I admire some of what Jobs said/did/lived - love his "crazies" piece:

and at the same time he perpetuated the oligarchy's power/control wheel and allowed Third World workers' lives/health to be put at risk in manufacturing the products he created...

String of Suicides at Chinese Apple Manufacturing Plant

Inside Apple's iPod Factories

Apple's Ugly Side

But then, we're all hypocrites at some level...

I guess if your iPad is worth more to you than the lives of human beings and other lifeforms on this planet, then yes, it's appropriate to have a huge public wake for a clever man...

Personally, I think we're better off spending our time doing this: