Reality Green

Long time no write, but life gets in the way, but what do you care?

Anyway, reason for post, idea for a new Reailty show, "Reality Green"

The concept, the public dob in anyone they see littering, or the like, we then find that person, follow them for a week or so, collect all their garbage that they dump recklessly, then give it back to them, in their living room preferably.

What we would be doing is combining the elements of tabloid "foot in the door" expose/shaming journalism and radical envirmonentalism with a splash of education.
Yes, thats right, education. The last bit of the show we would invite the litterer/victim to learn what the effects of all their crap on the enviroment are.
Ask anyone who's participated in one of those state or national clean up days how much crap is out there.

Anyway, someone go on and take that idea and run with it...........

And if someone did manage to make a go of that, let me know, I've had lots more sillier ideas...........


DC

Finding Common Cause

Do you remember the last BIG THING?

The creation of an object/media that we all shared in?

Rubiks Cube, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon, Star Wars, Titanic, The Matrix.

Can you remember anything in the last few years that has had that sort of impact?

Music now has more new artists every week than I could imagine in a year, Movies last in cinemas maybe two weeks, Television gives you a choice of thousands of programs, some might be called “Must See” but will fade away in the next few years.
Our culture has reached a pivotal point, where it has diversified so greatly that all messages, from the trivial to the terrifying get lost in the static of Cable, YouTube, Myspace, Digg!, TV, Radio, Cinema, DVD, Torrents and the like. People can now set themselves on fire in protest and it doesn’t make a blip on our culture.

Is there a common point left, a communal space where all and sundry will hear the call? A psychological well from which we draw that can be tapped to change the world? Many used to think so, back before the Internet was let loose by ARPA, back before CD’s became so common that they can be used as coasters. Back before “sending a message” was more important than doing the humane thing.

But now, how could you tell?

We have thousands of groups all clamouring to be heard, all telling us it is someone else’s fault that things are the way they are (usually one of the other groups) and that only they can fix it. Of course most of the more reasonable of these groups have had their chance in the last few decades, and that’s how the same problems have never been addressed.

We have so many questions, so many purported answers, but I’m afraid no real solutions.

And yet, so many of us, live our lives thinking of the weekend, the next party, or how we will buy that new TV, that new thing our consumption of goods deems necessary.

There are those that still hold onto the spirit of hope for mankind, but there isn’t any real profit in it. Weapons, technology, pharmaceuticals, that’s where the real money is to be made. And capitalism is built on one thing, profit.

I might just be looking for some sort of common link with mankind these days, some hope that the fear and ignorance that causes so much devastation in our world might be reduced one little bit more.

A little “Damage Control” if you will.

Maybe it comes down to the age old question those who feel alone against all that would prevail against them ask into the dark night:-

“Is there anybody out there?”

Global Warming

Ok, so the arguments go we are producing too much greenhouse gases and the planet is warming up, Ice caps will melt, deserts will expand, water will dry up and we will all be in the shit.

Or, its all a pile of garbage and nothing is wrong.

Is it just me or are we just worried about car mileage without worrying about the brakes?

Aren’t we talking pollution in the first place??
Does it matter wether Global warming is real or not when you get to choke on smog?

Do any of the critics who say we shouldn’t be concerned about Global Warming say we shouldn’t be concerned with pollution?
Or would they prefer to suck on a truck exhaust for an hour?

Do the anti-global warming people think we can just go on dumping crap into the oceans and into landfills forever?

What about the world population when its 10 Billion or 20 billion. How do we handle all that waste, dig the biggest whole possible and hope it doesn’t fill up to soon.

Or is pollution not a problem for them?

Maybe I can shit in their cereal and we see how that goes.

Pollution is the issue.

Human beings make waste. When we were simple agricultural peoples it was all pretty easily dealt with, although please don’t pee upstream.
Now that we can produce carcinogens, neurotoxins and radioactive substances with 10 thousand year half life’s we should be more concerned.
We as a technological civilisation produce some of the most sophisticated and hard to deal with waste every conceived in the history of our world.
And it seems we are not truly concerned.

Remember, pollution is the issue, the only real issue.

Me, I’ve gotta go take a dump in someone’s cereal.

Reflections

The Damage Control Group

A foolish enterprise started by an ignorant in a time before 9-11

If you’ve heard the song “I wish I was Born a Punk Rocker………….” you’ll understand the zeitgeist of hoping to change the world, and how it has succumbed to the behemoth of human greed, bureaucracy and populism for many. Well the DCG was inspired by the same spirit that the song talks about, the naïve belief you can change the world with words and effort. Before the terror, the war, the us and them, the with me or against me madness that has cost the lives of so many in Iraq on both sides, or the resurgence of the Taliban, which we knew nothing of, in Afghanistan.

It was an idea of using advertising to make people think. Simple words, covering topics common to us all, but in their simplification of the issue, hoping to provoke a response, any response, to make people think.

What the hell was I thinking?

With more organisation, more dedication, and whole lot more funds and professionalism maybe, just maybe, we might have had some minor effect.

But that is past.

The truth is a virus.
The world is growing immune.

Greetings and Salutations

Well, well, well, The DCG are back, or at least I am, DC, the group as a whole fell apart and disbanded.

Well who are we?

Read the below, one of the first statements of our intentions, so many pre 9-11 years ago:-

The D.C.G.

Urban Terrorism, Civil Disobedience, Social Engineering, Media Coercion.

We want to use advertising to bring attention to the point of view that it seems is not touched by the mainstream media.

In doing this, with acutely tuned ideas, the media will not only be the venue, through advertising, but will also, through our somewhat controversial subject matter, provide additional publicity.

Education, Drugs, Crime, Economic Rationalisation, the Environment, Globalisation, Genetic Testing, Reconciliation, Homosexuality, Equality and any other issue you care to mention.

And why should we do this?

Take a look around you.
At the world you live in.

The human race is capable of solving, or at least tackling all these issues with heart and compassion.
It needs to be reminded.

And that is our aim.

Think about it.
That’s all we ask.




Maybe more later,

DC

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