Thursday, September 23, 2004
Earth Share's Pop Philosophy
"There is really just one boy, one girl, one tree, one forest, one ocean, one mountain, one sky, one environment and now's there one way to care for it all..."
That's the beginning of an ad from earthshare.org. While the idea of combining various charitable environmental groups under a single umbrella is a good idea (in theory it decreases administrative overhead), the ad is just begging to be mocked.
"There is really just one boy, one girl..."
Well they better start getting it on if the species is to survive...
So we've returned to a state of Eden?
The rest are simulacra which aliens placed here to provide a carefully controlled environment to study you.
"one tree, one forest..."
Sometimes you just can't see the forest for the tree
That's a pretty crappy forest
In a degree of fairness, the one ocean and one sky are valid ideas, but those others are just silly.
Of course maybe earthshare has insights into physics that I'm unfamiliar with. Perhaps there is a single boy wave function which is probabilistically realized in the 3.5 billion or so people around the world we traditionally call "boys" and we are all "Being John Malkovich" at this very moment.
Or perhaps the ad is just silly.
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That's the beginning of an ad from earthshare.org. While the idea of combining various charitable environmental groups under a single umbrella is a good idea (in theory it decreases administrative overhead), the ad is just begging to be mocked.
"There is really just one boy, one girl..."
Well they better start getting it on if the species is to survive...
So we've returned to a state of Eden?
The rest are simulacra which aliens placed here to provide a carefully controlled environment to study you.
"one tree, one forest..."
Sometimes you just can't see the forest for the tree
That's a pretty crappy forest
In a degree of fairness, the one ocean and one sky are valid ideas, but those others are just silly.
Of course maybe earthshare has insights into physics that I'm unfamiliar with. Perhaps there is a single boy wave function which is probabilistically realized in the 3.5 billion or so people around the world we traditionally call "boys" and we are all "Being John Malkovich" at this very moment.
Or perhaps the ad is just silly.
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