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AMUSED TO DEATH

AMUSED TO DEATH

Roger Waters: Perfect Sense


They significantly edge
Closer to the gold
Each man has his price Bob
And yours was pretty low
History is short the sun just a minor star
The poor man sells his kidneys
In some colonial bazaar
Que sera sera
Is that your new Ferrari car
Nice but I'll think I'll wait for the F50
You don't have to be a Jew
To disapprove of murder
Tears burn my eyes
Moslem or Christians Mullah or Pope
Preacher or poet who was it wrote
Give any one species too much rope
And they'll fuck it up
Roger waters

I started my crawl in the heart of a cultural metropolis of Lahore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore) surrounded by a population of 2.8 million in 1980 (http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/lahore-population/) saw it explode to 9.25 million by the time we moved to Sydney 2015 (http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/lahore-population/), I saw the division of rich and or divide and spread beyond any reason, walking the roads all around was an environment of desperation for Consumption and the greed for even more. Sustainability just being a word for Lounge conversations by the rich or academic dialogues in the Utopian Socratic debate. Power and Want rather than needs are the KEYWORDS of everyday. A developing Country powered by over consumption, dissatisfaction angst and rage all looping pack to a simple notion of Gluttony.  
Fast forward to a promise of a better life our move to the first world, AUSTRALIA, greener pastures indeed. Tolerance, freedom, Support and beyond everything Humane Sensitivity that was a term much desired in the high density "Developing Nations" of the world.
It is all a game of numbers, makes perfect sense. But why cannot we see how we silently edge to chaos, why can’t we see the human population becoming a melee that is increasing in numbers and the dissatisfaction showing in the search of a better world by leaving what is / was theirs to nurture and hold (Urban Sprawl).

Our need for instant gratification and Consumption is Amusing as it maybe leading to a sad demise of the only home we will ever call home, the tiny blip in the universe the 3rd rock from the Sun, that only our vigilance, pro-active and communal efforts can postpone. 

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