Around the world, children are starving, children are dying of preventable diseases. Children are being forced into child-labour, into slavery,
even being forced to fight as soldiers.
Meanwhile, in the west, a certain toddler from an ever-so privileged family goes on an outing with his parents...and it's front-page fucking news (in mainstream publications no less).
Look at the little boy rolling down a hill. Marvel in wonder as he kicks a ball ! See him running with his little toy-car in his chubby little fists... But it's newsworthy, because one day, if our species hasn't completely destroyed itself before then, the adult this child may one day become could get to wear fancy-dress and pretend-rule over the people of a portion of a couple of small islands in the North Sea.
I will give the Telegraph & Times credit for one thing though: Not being the Daily Mail. Because
they apparently felt
this particular combination to be appropriate:
There's a certain .gif out there on the 'ole Internetz that I could post here, that to put it mildly,
starts with someone banging their head against a desk. I'm going to refrain...this time.
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