Bonzer Words!: Barking Mad
Betty Collins finds herself bemused by the world and its ways.
I am not sure, really, whether I am barking mad or just hopelessly befuddled: how on earth can one make sense of a world in which, at one and the same time, in the same newspaper, or during the same TV Newscast, one can be informed of famine in Ethiopia and a lavish State funeral for one individual costing millions? Within the short span of few minutes see pictures of patient beasts breathing their last for want of a few litres of water; human babies starving at the breast—and crowds of overfed men and women being further offered loads of luxury food and drink—a lot of which we know will simply be thrown away into the garbage? All the 'left-over' cream and eggs and wheaten flour which will not even be fed to the pigs in this wealthy land 'in case it should carry something harmful' (thus disturbing the chain of financial profitability).
Maybe being hopelessly befuddled is not so far off being 'barking mad'.
Or maybe just plain stupid?
What does 'multi-cultural', for instance, mean? It certainly seems that some are permitted to be more multi-cultural than others? Could someone perhaps spell out in words of one syllable the meaning of this term?
And in the United States, the Brave New World, Big Brother now freely taps the telephone lines in the land of the free?
Folks, that's enough to keep my little head buzzing for another month.
© Betty Collins
