Robert Small, The blog thereof.

or,

Why I think the lottery and X-Factor like TV shows are bad.

Society owes you little. It does not owe you fame and fortune, that’s something you may well owe yourself to earn, but it’s not something that society owes you. Relatively recently it has become the fashionable thing to want to magically become rich and sometimes famous.Life is not a lottery, even ‘ideal’ jobs like ‘network marketing’ require you to work hard and learn your trade before you have any chance of making much money. However it seems we’ve become enchanted with the vision of instant ‘celebrity in a bag’; hard earned success gained from talent and energy has been replaced by flash success based on luck and the opinions of a couple of judges.

Not only do we want to chose our celebrities by the proxy of talent show hosts, we want to chose our rich by the proxy of lottery cards. There have always been ‘lucky’ people who gained riches through inheritance and had no idea how to use them. Today it seems to be something we desire, to get something without working or otherwise ‘earning’ it. Personally I dislike gaining anything by raffle or lottery, I was brought up to believe that success had to be earned and not won.

I feel this way of thinking could be part of the reason why we have such a ’sue, sue, sue’ culture. People are always looking for ’something from nothing’.

I may be wrong, tell me how you feel.

Kind regards, Robert.

‘A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted “this is YouTube material” has been sentenced to three years in prison.’ bbc.co.uk report, thanks Auntie.

Listening to this BBC report on the radio I contemplated what a sick society we live in; however, my incredulity was not tried enough, yet. I was only half listening to the news now, imagining the woman’s humiliation as the man covered her in shaving foam and urinated on her. I can hardly imagine a more terrible scene of death.

Given in his defense is that he was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol. This is no defense, surely the court is meant to measure out judgment as some level of compensation for the man’s actions; his state of intoxication makes no difference to the crime from the victims end, not only did he not help or phone for help he gloried in making her last moments as close to hell as possible. He may feel that it’s YouTube material, but I feel that it’s more than a valid excuse to lock him up for many years. That he was a former soldier makes this crime even more horrific, this man was trained to help in extreme danger zones and impartially remove resistance with an aim to preserve human life, it would seem that dialing 999 (the emergency services) was too much for one of such high caliber.

‘A director who presided over redundancies as she swindled money from a company to support a lavish lifestyle has been jailed for five years.’ bbc.co.uk report, thanks again Beeb

As I said, my mind had taken precedent over my ears as I mused over this terrible incident, however, one thing was left to shake me to the core. It would appear that the courts in this country value corporate theft above the defilement of and failing to aid a distressed and dying woman. Gentle reader, I do not intend to be judge, jury and executioner; I have no intent nor the pretension to believe I have any right or even the ability. However, I do feel a deep resentment and what I can only describe as riotous wrath that the legal system should treat someone in this way.

I’m unsure what can be done to rectify this situation, after all, past experience would bring me to believe that it’s only one of many. Past experience would also bring me to believe that we are probably not told everything which we might be and would need to be to discover the true state of affairs, however, I still express my genuine outrage at what seems to be a great injustice.

Yours, disgusted, Robert.

Edit 01:27 27 Oct: Fixed more to Valtr0n’s liking