Does it really need to be said that much.....

Most of you have been watching or reading the news this week and there is one story which i am starting to get tired of. Jade Goody has been told she has around 2 months to live due to cancer, sad story, yes, news worthy, yes. It is an emotive story she has young kids who wont understand why and shes using her last few moments to marry her partner. Beautiful. to constantly have it in the papers and in the news is outrageous.

Front page of the sun yesterday said how she is being brave shopping for a wedding dress. She isn't being brave she is doing what any other person would do in the circumstances, go and spend as much money as possible. The full story showed a picture of her in a wheel chair. Sad to look at, but not so sad when you look at the picture of Emporio Armani next to it.

I'm not saying I hate Jade Goody, nor am I saying that no one cares. But what on earth has she honestly done for the country. A thick sponge is put onto a reality T.V show and automatically gains celebrity status. The loud mouthed beaver gets put on the show again and tries to get more attention but making unintelligent and completely unimaginative racist, if you call it racist, remarks to a bollywood puppet. A huge media uproar started just because a slightly pale smurf stated a tasty yet dry indian snack after the name of an indian woman. Rediculous.

All i'm trying to say is if it were Sir David Attenborough in Goody's position, i would be upset and i would expect large coverage because he is a pure british legend and has actually done something for the respectable public. Goody appeared on Big Brother.

I was upset when Steve Irwin died, he did something. I was upset when Heath Ledger died, he did something. I was upset when Bob Munkhouse died, he did something. If keith chegwin died I would also be upset. But Jade has done sweet sod all apart from being stupid. It's upsetting yes, and I know i'm probably being rather cruel, but a page or two in a paper for 1 day would have been enough to make me go "aw thats quite sad", now it's getting rediculous.

Now a little more for paper stupidity. Front page of the mirror today states " Jade to get her dream wedding". Ahem, sorry did it just say "dream" wedding. I don't think her dream wedding involved her being pushed down the isle in a medical wheel chair on the drip thank you. I will take her side for this. I'm sorry her "dream" wedding, i'm pretty sure cancer didn't come into the equasion when her and her partner were thinking of the idea. Not only that they put a picture of her wedding location which actually looks beautiful.

Why isn't she putting money into cancer research? Why isn't she doing talks on how she has tried fighting it? She is winging and moaning about her cancer, but has she forgotten about the other 100's of thousands of people who also suffer? Attention seeking once again, still not caring about the other members of society.

Orwellian state

During the lecture today, we were foretold the ideas of the state, what it means and different variations of how the state worked, works now and how it could work in the future. I did notice that George Orwell was mentionned at sometime during the lecture, however brief, so i would like to do a little para on what George Orwell's ideas convey.

In Orwell's book, Nineteen eighty four, he mentions numerous ideas about how the state should work and what could be acheieved by this. You guys know that rediculous programme where a number of "randomly" selected individuals partake in a 13 long, long, long weeks of grueling stupidity, retina straining nudity and down right bolluks. Yes, yes, BigBrother. This idea that "BigBrother is always watching you", was origionally thought up by George Orwell. His ideas included a complete state of surveilance where no one was free from cameras, listening devices and the national service.

This may seem like a good idea to the naked eye, but Orwell predicted this outcome and also predicted the ideas of anarchy that is caused by this ordeal. Today, we are nearlly on an epidemic. CCTV lies everywhere we walk, our credit cards are tabbed everywhere we use them, the new chip cards in passports keep a record of wherever we travel. We are slowly falling into this "Orwellian State", and wanted to highlight an important factor of the state, but let you guys realise the horror of what actually goes on behind the picture.

Oh yeah, BigBrother is shite never watch it again :-)

Another addition, when i start i should be uploading a "terry's daily fun" section on this blog. This will include anything funny i find on the likes of youtube or any other website which i think you guys will appriciate. Most of them will be mildly rude and some of them fairly clean, but i guess your all adults and can understand this.

Be posting at some point soon goodbye!!

An introduction....

Obviously this is my first post and because this is fairly new to me, it might not be as literate as some scholars might think. So to start of my name is Terry, my hobbies will come to light at some point I deem neccessary to save my own dignity. This blog is going to start off slow, however, it should pick up as I get used to it. Items will include overviews of the lectures I have attended and political issues that are happening or upcoming in the news.

Will post another artical nearly straight after this one..