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Showing posts with label Elton John. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elton John. Show all posts
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CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT A CELL PHONE?
Everything I imagined before land lines became obsolete and public phone booths were destroyed.
DAILY MAIL : COULD YOU LIVE WITHOUT YOUR PHONE? Celebrities
This article from Daily Mail on line (Daily Mail UK) about celebrities who go without is of interest.
However, celebrities usually have other people who can and do handle their necessary communications.
The distraction of cell phones, the pile of work that e-mails can be, that we have more privacy and time for life - and actual encounters with people - when we aren't on the Internet, and the addiction to news and information or constant back and forth - all mentioned, all encountered.
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9/24/12
LOVE IS THE CURE : ELTON JOHN : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW
LOVE IS THE CURE
On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS
C Elton John AIDS Foundation
Publisher : Little Brown and Company
The writing was smooooth; Strunk and White would be proud!
Elton John kept the focus on AIDS, so while some personal information is woven in, it's not the focus, and the focus feels relentless.
The information Elton John has to deliver is appalling. Most utterly appalling is the frequency - normalcy - of RAPE OF WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA, where Blacks have extremely high rates of AIDS.
I cannot help but apply my own values; it's horrific and disgusting. Apartheid ended but insane sexism and homophobia has not. South African leader Nelson Mandela appears in ads but maybe these people DON'T WANT LIFE! This is not about Whites oppressing Blacks in South Africa. This is about Blacks doing themselves in. Elton John is too kind to say so.
There are other examples, other countries. In South Africa the women are raped and it's strangly frequent enough to be implied acceptable and yet they are afraid to admit it which means it is not acceptable, so people go without medical treatment until they are about to die, hiding the secret of their rape... and the children... they become orphans... they die too.
Yes, there are other countries where AIDS is taking lives because of ignorance, other examples in the book. Elton's not picking on South Africa.
So, after getting over my fury about South Africa, I took a moment to ask myself the question that that was part of the "prime directive" on the old Star Trek series.
(If you don't remember, on Star Trek the crew beams down to various planets surfaces where they are, by their very presence, going to influence the culture, while trying not to. They are supposed to attend to their business for going there, take care of a problem, and leave.) Can we take our values and try to make another culture conform to them because we think or know that these people would be better off with our values or can we avoid doing that?
How can we as outsiders address RAPE CULTURE in another country on another continent when we still have a rape culture here, though not as horrible as in South Africa? Or does change have to come from the inside, from people there admitting the truth about what's going on and how they are ruining their own lives and the lives of others and stop behaving that way?
Hard question. Left unanswered.
Celibacy still has its charm
C 2012 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
On Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS
C Elton John AIDS Foundation
Publisher : Little Brown and Company
The writing was smooooth; Strunk and White would be proud!
Elton John kept the focus on AIDS, so while some personal information is woven in, it's not the focus, and the focus feels relentless.
The information Elton John has to deliver is appalling. Most utterly appalling is the frequency - normalcy - of RAPE OF WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA, where Blacks have extremely high rates of AIDS.
I cannot help but apply my own values; it's horrific and disgusting. Apartheid ended but insane sexism and homophobia has not. South African leader Nelson Mandela appears in ads but maybe these people DON'T WANT LIFE! This is not about Whites oppressing Blacks in South Africa. This is about Blacks doing themselves in. Elton John is too kind to say so.
There are other examples, other countries. In South Africa the women are raped and it's strangly frequent enough to be implied acceptable and yet they are afraid to admit it which means it is not acceptable, so people go without medical treatment until they are about to die, hiding the secret of their rape... and the children... they become orphans... they die too.
Yes, there are other countries where AIDS is taking lives because of ignorance, other examples in the book. Elton's not picking on South Africa.
So, after getting over my fury about South Africa, I took a moment to ask myself the question that that was part of the "prime directive" on the old Star Trek series.
(If you don't remember, on Star Trek the crew beams down to various planets surfaces where they are, by their very presence, going to influence the culture, while trying not to. They are supposed to attend to their business for going there, take care of a problem, and leave.) Can we take our values and try to make another culture conform to them because we think or know that these people would be better off with our values or can we avoid doing that?
How can we as outsiders address RAPE CULTURE in another country on another continent when we still have a rape culture here, though not as horrible as in South Africa? Or does change have to come from the inside, from people there admitting the truth about what's going on and how they are ruining their own lives and the lives of others and stop behaving that way?
Hard question. Left unanswered.
Celibacy still has its charm
C 2012 Christine Trzyna All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights
8/16/12
NEW BOOKS BY and ABOUT MUSICAL ARTISTS: ELTON JOHN'S and MITCH WINEHOUSE - AMY'S DAD HIT THE KEYS : COMPUTER KEYS THAT IS
Elton John wrote LOVE IS THE CURE - On Loss and the End of AIDS, and Amy Winehouse's dad. Mitch Winehouse, wrote AMY, MY DAUGHTER. I have both in hand, and am hoping to read them soon. Both fall into one of my favorite genre, pop music.
Now where is that wine and cheese?
Now where is that wine and cheese?
4/22/10
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