See, I knew you wouldn't like it.
But seriously. I don't know if you've ever seen a film called " Good Will Hunting"? It's about a guy who's a genius at maths. Long story short, at one point in the film, he finds himself trying to explain to a university professor a really complicated maths problem and he gets frustrated, because to him it's so obvious he feels like he's on another planet.
Well I'm crap at maths but that's more or less the same thing. It's like we live on two different planets, you and me. That's why I joke, because I don't know how to talk to you. It's like I don't speak your language.
To me it's obvious that looking after the environment we live in comes before everything else. I can't understand how with impending climate disaster anyone could run away from individual responsibility.
I am not totally devoid of logic and sense, actually. But sometimes sense and logic tell you that if you try to explain somebody why their seat-counting argument isn't relevant, you're going to fail. So I don't bother.
This debate has more to do with feeling and , you're right, morality.
It's very ironic and twisted that someone like Morrissey who once had a strong feeling of right and wrong about the way we treat animals, ended up writing a song that is interpreted by his dumbest fans as an excuse to "refuse" morality. (That's the privilege of the artist, to be able to say things and not care how they are going to be interpreted. Morrissey always says provocative things, and it's mostly to provoke one person. The only response he ever gets is not getting any birthday cake or card, by the way.)
So anyway in my case, morality is the good old-fashioned term for gut-feeling for right or wrong. For Morrissey, it was animals. For me, it's the environment as a whole. Any fool could see that it's silly to think of saving animals without protecting their habitat, but that's where logic and sense abandon Morrissey and Julia, curiously enough.
And why? Because caring about the environment and taking responsibilty contradicts their interests. In Morrissey's case, the need to tour compulsively, and in Julia's case, the need to feed off Morrissey touring. Nothing matters more to them, and so they're happy to shun morality, when, when they talk about animals, they'll feel so strongly eating or harming them is "wrong."
Strange, isn't it?
Now, why did I bother saying all that about Julia?
It's not that I care about her. I don't even care about Morrissey anymore. I've tried to make sense of what he does, and I've tried to help him see it doesn't make sense. Morrissey sent me packing, so I doubt I'd have more luck with Julia. Incidentally, don't blame Julia for what she is. It's not entirely her fault. It's mostly Morrissey's attitude to her that's made her like that. People always forget he's at the origin of things quite a lot. Not always, but quite a lot.
So, I bothered saying all that about air-travel,
to make people think about global warming.
to make people think about acting in a responsible manner. (no matter how old, young, or a crazy Morrissey fan you are
)
and finally, to let them know that I don't support people who put Morrissey before everything else, including the planet we live on.
If I've managed to make
one Morrissey fan think about all that, then I will not have wasted my time.
And to conclude... I'm probably going to touch the Southpaw-grammar lovers the most.
...But of course, there's never any way of telling.:
And, you're right, I'm close to Dagenham.
And...Well...Whatever I say, the moral intent is always, mmmmmmmmmmmmm-
dum dum tek. For everyone and everything. Even in the heat of global warming.
PS: Silke, Jesus thinks you're ok. And more importantly, so do I.