2 posts tagged “media”

We are apparently pessimistic about our future. A poll has officially declared that we hold a dismal outlook for our immediate future.

Daily we are assailed with climate change stories of woe. Just tonight I have heard that the ice caps will be gone shortly, that we are probably too late to save the Great Barrier Reef and the Kakadu Rainforest, and possibly our Murray-Darling River system may be beyond resuscitation.

I have also been told to expect that the oil will be $150 a barrel sooner rather than later, and that new green energies are going to add huge amounts to my cost of living. We aren't go to have enough food for everyone and what there is is going to cost more money as well.

As an aging baby boomer who only came to superannuation late I am not going to have enough money to live on in my retirement. My children are never going to be able to afford their own homes so they may have to live with us for ever...even if they marry. Hopefully I wont need old age care, because there wont be enough places in care for me, and if I need serious medical treatment I will either have to pay huge amounts of money out of my own pocket to ensure speedy treatment, or go onto a public waiting list where a lot of people only get the call for assistance after they have passed on (my Dad got an appointment with a dentist four months after he died).

The number of people on medication for depression and stress is growing every week. Small wonder. The media is, every day in every way, calling us to hysteria, mass moral outrage, and fear. Their motto, as always, is "if it bleeds, it leads".

I feel like my life blood is being sucked out of me and is gurgling down the public sewer. The only way for me survive is to rely on my own ability to build creativity, serentity and peace into my own exisitence and that of the people around me. I refuse to let "them" the self declared all knowing all seeing harbingers of doom to bring me down. I will surivive. I will thrive and I will overcome...

they are not going to push me over the edge... I will jump when I am good and ready

Do you have a go to photo? A go to photo is an up to date, clear, head and shoulders photo of you that, heaven forbid, if anything should happen to you, should you disappear, that your nearest and dearest can give to the police or media to assist in identifying or finding you.

I have been thinking about this lately. I think it is important. If left to my family they would give that ugly photo of me sleeping with my mouth half open and drool creeping down my chin that my husband took when he first got his new camera. I know he would not miss the opportunity to publicly humiliate me.

I fear that one look at such a photo and the public are going to decide that I will be no loss to humanity and leave me lost. They may even be grateful that I am no longer out there to frighten small children.

It may be harder to to obtain than I feared......