Thread: Pass the NGO please...Sunday Rant

Originally Posted by JohnnyCool

OK - so I manage to rip out the ignition key, hand over a business card, leave the bike in the middle of the traffic and drive off. How long do you think it would take for the big brothers to come knocking at my door and probably beating me up?

Ok if my plan was too daring for you Johnny let's try some creative thinking: How's about getting the key (traffic is usually walking pace in the south anyway and here in the east kids really aren't much of a problem yet - hell, all the traffic is shit!) and then just giving the kids a card pointing them to the local police station - where you leave the keys (anonymously?) possibly with another card saying why you have left them? Let the cops figure it out and tell the kids off - I'm sure they would be scared shitless just having to go to the cops, whatever the reason.

Knowing Indonesia's finest they might discover a new source of cigarette money in the whole deal :lol:

Originally Posted by JUDY

How disgusting those rich bastards are.

Judy personally I think that's a bit harsh :lol: . You have to try and understand these people a bit - IMHO they really are as far removed from reality as their "plans" seem.

They honestly believe that forming committees and having meetings is the real way to bring in change because that's all they have ever done in Europe or America. Gotten someone else to do the dirty work while they "organize" and in many places that can work - it's better than doing nothing!

Just, my minimal understanding of the island says to me that "hands off" just aint gonna work here :( Too much "goodwill" will get lost between meeting and help.

My 2000 Rupiah's worth

Actions speak louder than words Eh! :D

Like I said, here in the East kids aint much of a problem.

But if I was as incensed about the subject as Johnny Cool, rightly, seems to be I would try something before I get a haemorrhage (don't you love spell check?). Talk is cheap and saying "someone should do something" even cheaper - "Someone" is US.

Come on Johnny give it a go and tell us how it went - do something instead of just writing about it!

Shit at our age what can happen to us - we're all gonna die. Save some of those kids from a wheel chair or worse.

What to do with our trash and where do they end up?

This is a very interesting website on trash art photography. http://www.chrisjordan.com

well it is also a reminder about the stranglehold of consumerism and our perpetual pursuit of more stuff.

Hey Kadek, long see no time! Thanks for the photo links.

Consumerism is a funny old thing - within living memory we used to be "citizens" and at some stage in the last 40 or so years we all changed to being "consumers".

A citizen, in my opinion, is a rational and considerate member of society supporting a democratic governing process with his or her vote and participation.

A consumer is a hole to pour things in.

Consumerism + Throw Away Society = Economic Growth + Better GDP = Jobs = People with Money = Consumerism. :shock: Is that full circle? I may have missed a couple of points in between and it is a very simplistic view - of mine of course


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6_EGyf6Swo

Here is a nice education video by IDEP Foundation at local schools in Bali. Great job!