Original Post Monday, January 11, 2010 at 11:01am
So my amazing sister got some free tickets for any movie at a Ster Kinekor cinema; we couldn’t go while she was here so she left them for me. Sweet deal.
I asked Miss Sara P to join me.
We went and we loved it.
I’m going to give you a few options to substitute that annoyingly badly written and barely expressive sentence right there; simply because “We loved it” doesn’t do the actual emotion we felt any justice at all.
We had overwhelmingly Deep affection for it, we were totally besotted with it, we were enthralled by it, we were absolutely absorbed by it, we had an insatiable appetite for more. In short it was fantastic and we came close to worshipping the director.
Not only were the graphics and special effects out of this world (literally). It was a beautifully woven story. So delicately and well put together.
So very relevant.
The message was powerful beyond measure.
That we destroy priceless natural beauty & existence of any kind for a cheap man made commodity. Money.
It’s embarrassingly disgusting that those men & women who were all for the killing of tribes for the “precious stone” that would earn someone uncountable amounts of money are us. Us. We are those people.
Our population worships money, so much so, that we will push anything out of the way to obtain it. To clutch it only to inevitably let it go.
We apparently need it for survival. Funny that. A time existed when there was no money - only vast stretches of untouched land, fruit in abundance, vegetables for Africa, livestock, pure uncontaminated water & whatever form of shelter. And so you’re trying to tell me that a piece of paper with some supposedly important print on it with a pre-determined imaginary value is a worthy substitute?
Surely not?
Definitely not.
I came across this quote at the beginning of the year. It sums up what I’m getting at here:
`Only when the last tree has died & the last river has been poisoned & the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.` 19th Century Cree India
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