Environment Vol. 3: Stuntin’ Like You’re Green
I’m going to have to agree with a lot of what Chex said in Vol. 2. Yes, politicians are mostly all cunts, no matter what their ideological leanings are. They are for the most part in ‘the game’ for the advancement of their own agenda, and of course to lend support to those people who are willing to support them. Some politicians may be more unashamedly obvious about this blatant friend backscratching (thinking of Bush’s support for incompetent fools like Rumsfeld, Gonzales, ‘Brownie), but for the most part ALL politicians just have to get really good at sucking dick and pleasing a bunch of people in order to fulfill their OWN personal agenda.
Adressing, Chex’s genuine beef with Al Gore that seemed to seethe from every word in the post’s second half, I have to say I’m less willing to agree with you. I’m not as willing to share your unbridled hatred for Al Gore, just because of all the people I see today who ‘fux’ with politics, he seems to be the most apolitical, probably because he’s not really so much in the game right now. I also doubt that he’s gonna jump back into the game in order to run for president in 2008, so I don’t think all this environmental stuff is a political points garnering scheme. Al Gore’s concern in this movie seems to be genuine, and although certain parts of it have been exposed as alarmist, most of the evidence used and arguments made in it are sound, if a bit cheesy at times. The fact that Gore’s house is a ridiculous plantation mansion that consumes exorbitant amounts of energy is just a reminder that he’s from an old gentried southern family, and a bitch ass politician, who naturally loves to talk a lot and point out the faults of others before truly giving himself a thorough self examination. Al Gore may be a bitch for doing this, undoubtedly, but the truly important issue to address is the message he’s espousing.
One thing that does alarm me about the ‘green phenomenon’ that Al Gore has created is how it’s being picked up by Hollywood celebrities, which pretty much automatically makes it lose credibility and seriousness. For some reason our society seems to think that what its celebrities think is important, hence GQ doing it’s main expose last month on how Leo is like, totally into this Green thing. I’m sure they failed to mention that despite having a hybrid and buying carbon taxes, he consumes more shit than 99.9% of the people on earth, therefore making him indirectly responsible for more pollution than almost anybody in the world. I think that people getting into being green because it’s ‘trendy’ are idiots. They are diluting the seriousness of the movement by making it into a pop cultural phenomenon, where it’s so simple to good for the environment, as opposed to treating it like the dire global problem that it is.
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 am
“They are diluting the seriousness of the movement by making it into a pop cultural phenomenon, where it’s so simple to good for the environment, as opposed to treating it like the dire global problem that it is.”
well said blax… i completely agree . hopefully, people who see this is a trend or phase will not just get bored of it soon and let the movement die like any other trend in the culture.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 am
This post is diluting the readability of this blog.
If these writings are to appeal to the people outside of the dC, we need to have some standards. Here’s a start:
1) Spell check things.
2) Introduce your posts before going into rant mode.
3) Returns between paragraphs.
4) When you write, ask whether your post would entertain or inform you if you stumbled across it without knowledge of its context.
If we’re only talking to ourselves, why not just use an email list?
Ok I’m done being a douche for now.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:02 pm
i don’t care if celebrity endorsement makes it corny, obnoxious, or less serious, as long as people start doing something about it. If it works, I don’t give a damn.
June 4th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
(Sweet… first comment on DiDa)
I see the problem of celebrity endorsements and credibility as only being a problem for elitist pricks whose attitudes are that once a cause goes mainstream it isn’t worth fighting for. I mean, this issue of hypocrisy and alarmism with politicians is nothing new, so why pick on Gore in particular? Yeah so he hasn’t taken a good look at himself yet, but at least this message that he’s espousing is one that concerns everybody instead of catering specifically to a group of nutcases. I haven’t seen Truth myself (nor do I care to anytime soon really) but I can imagine that some of it would be “alarmist” but so what? This crap worked on people with gay marriages (oh noes! the gays are moving in our neighborhoods and… increasing property values?!?!), Terry Schiavo (oh noes! we have to get her a Happy Meal cuz she’s alive and she be HUNGRY!), etc etc.
Given that the American public is generally busy/stupid I think it’s perfectly legit strategy to employ. Intellectuals of course should know better. More or less I think it’s a stepping stone (not the most perfect) in bringing environmentalism into the center, because it has in on the back burner for years. I mean, when polar bears are drowning and stuff cuz there’s not enough ice, I think it’s pretty appropriate.
At the end of the day, if those who only did it to be trendy decide to stop participating in the movement, it’s really no big loss. At least they did SOME things for a little while. Those who were true to the cause in the first place would still be there, and hopefully there would be new members.
PS and maybe for the short time when this is still a “fad,” there will be enough voices to get the government to establish a real recycling program… cuz goddamn the US fucking sucks at that shit! …but that’s more hopeful pondering…