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:

Variations On A Theme - Gold...

All that glitters... usually is quite beautiful...

But can you feed your body AND your soul with gold?

And at what cost?

Seems to me we've learned little
from King Midas...