Gaza

The bombs have started again in Gaza, children are dying

and people on Facebook are posting pictures of organic produce, greenhouse grown. Now I support these urban greenhouses. If they are actually economically viable I love the idea of cities growing their own food. So we can eat and drink, while tomorrow others die.

(and Harry Fear covers it live via ustream)

Atrocities are all around us. I wonder how many children died in Canada or the states today from deliberate violence or stupidity? But there's something different about Israel - some way that we all have blood on our hands. Our “allies” in the middle east, perhaps caught in an impossible situation - surely the Koch brothers or others like them are not actively fueling this bloody impasse between the Palestinians and the Israelis?

So where will it go? Will we just go back to our organic produce photos on Facebook, or the is it or isn’t it photoshopped picture of a hippo charging a naked man? And I'm all about inanity, I recognize that we’re all going to die - but how are we going to live? What will get us off our chairs? Harper seems to be busily shitting all over my idea of what Canada is and should be, yet I've got as far as making a few puppet videos.

I’m often existentially despondent at not having any purpose - well, it's clear I just enjoy feeling sorry for myself - there's plenty to do in this world, and the least effort feels better than doing nothing.

So, turn your attention to #Gaza , to #reality ... At the very least let it trouble you for some short while.