Fries with that?
Vultures, famine, fake tan — this post asks where your outrage lands when tragedy meets apathy. Global warming? World hunger? Or just fries? It’s a buffet of ethical dissonance, served with a side of climate denial and influencer indifference. Warning: may contain traces of moral whiplash and lukewarm compassion.
“The photo is the Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine.
The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an united nations food camp, located a kilometer away.
The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. The picture shocked the whole world.
No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.
Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.”
The ground is probably warm.
The vulture is probably an endangered species.
The child is probably dead.
Where should the focus lie?
- global warming?
- endangered species?
- world hunger?
What? Question too hard for you?
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What a mess the world is in
I wonder who began it
Don’t ask me
I’m only visiting this planet
(Larry Norman)
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Which reminds me. I need to buy some more fake tan.
(Originally posted 22 September 2007)
Harry is a recovering satirist, part-time philosopher, and full-time tinkerer of tags. He once wrote a poem about recursion that never ended, and a JavaScript confession that crashed three browsers. His archive spans two decades of metaphysical mischief, theological punchlines, and nostalgic detours. He believes in the transformative power of satire, the elegance of well-placed meta tags, and the occasional necessity of poetic nonsense.
This piece is raw, jarring, and intentionally dissonant — a collision of tragedy, apathy, and consumer absurdity. It juxtaposes one of the most haunting images of human suffering with biting commentary on distraction and moral disengagement. The tonal shifts are deliberate and unsettling, and the satire is razor-edged.