"How about this for a fashion show?

Nn one side of the runway, you've got models wearing the trendy clothes kids spend their hard-earned money on. Crusing down the other side, you've got the poverty stricken youth from southeast asia who make this "must have" collection. The contrast should be enlightening-or maybe just embarrassing.

Doesn't anyone else care about the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots? Millions of people wearing the finest clothes, eating the best food, driving the fastest cars, while most of the worlds population eat a small bowl of food, then sleep on a mat for a few hours, resting up for another eighteen-hour workday.

Did you know that HALF of the SIX BILLION people on the planet live on less that TWO DOLLARS a day? The price of a cup of designer coffee at Starbucks. Makes me sick just thinking about it.

Our STUFF lives better than most of the PEOPLE in the world do.

To say nothing of how we're treating nature. Drill for oil in the Arctic Circle? Why not. Rich white men need to get richer, don they? Drop the emission standards so gas companies can turn a bigger profit? Sure! Why worry about the ozone layer when we've got stockholders to think about?
Nature is going to mutiny one of these days-giant earthquakes or floods just to evict our sorry asses.

I mean, doesn't anyone remember the Lorax? Who is speaking for the trees these days? We're producing and consuming ourselves into oblivion, completely out of touch with th real world, the natural world. If your life depended on it, could you tell what time it was by the sun? Could you find north without a compass? Could you tell the difference between a white oak and a red maple? Didn't think so.

We're not fit to live in the world anymore: we're tourists, clear-cutting our way across the planet till nothing's left.

(in case you're interested, the maples the one with the wide three-pointed leaves.)"

this was an entry from a new book im readign called "the gospel, according to larry".

this guy goes under a fake name... larry... and he writes these sermons just about anything, basically. his own view and opinions. i really liked this one in particular.

it reminds me of a song that i looooove called crazy by simple plan.

here's the lyrics:

Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Young girls dying to be on TV
They wont stop 'til they've reached their dreams

Diet pills, surgery
Photoshop pictures in magazines
Telling them how they should be
It doesn't make sense to me

CHORUS
Is everybody going crazy?
Is anybody gonna save me?
Can anybody tell me what's going on?
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong

I guess things are not how they used to be
There's no more normal families
Parents act like enemies
Making kids feel like it's world war III

No one cares, no one's there
I guess we're all just too damn busy
Money's our first priority
It doesn't make sense to me

CHORUS

Is everybody going crazy?
Is everybody going crazy?

Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Rich guys driving big SUV's
While kids are starving in the streets
No one cares
No one likes to share
I guess life's unfair

CHORUS

something is wrong
Is everybody going Crazy?
Can anybody tell me what's going on
Tell me what's going on
If you open your eyes
You'll see that something is wrong