60. Crocheted Cake
April 24, 2009
Funded retirement now poses a dangerous threat to the industriousness of humankind.
When we consider the problems facing our world–carbon emissions, terrorism, HIV, hunger, crime, war, etc.–the fact that someone has time to crochet a cake is truly depressing.
This paucity of spirit would only be seen in affluent, Western nations. Developing countries do not have the time nor resources to crochet a cake. More importantly, they need to find food and survive.
One may go as far as labeling this abomination as the symbol of our Human Crisis.
How will we know when this Human Crisis is over?
When every individual in every country has the wealth, time and peace-of-mind to create a cloth cake.
In the meantime, this ostentatious display of leisure and status must be abolished. It is as tasteless as it is garrish.
*retarded item courtesy of etsy.com
are you joking here?
in what way is blogging more beneficial to human culture than
art? (not that this is the best example of art)
just look at the hand painted trucks in pakistan and india.. those ‘developing nations’ actually have more public art than ours – full of homogenized aesthetic and advertising, millions of people planted in front of computers staring at banner ads 12 hours a day.