Live Earth Saves the World, I didn’t watch it and here’s why

Here I am getting all political and it’s exactly what I wasn’t going to do with this blog. The massive Live Earth concert is now over and I didn’t watch a damn thing from it. It was a fortuitous conjunction of politics and utter disinterest. Nice really to have one’s political convictions dovetail so nicely with doing nothing. It wasn’t even that I objected to the gross distortion of a very important message by self serving and profligate rock stars although that was certainly worthy of consideration.
I heard that Snoop Dog ( an utter punk and disgrace to the planet ) had a particularly grotesque blinged out microphone that would have done Tutankhamen proud, but even that is only a part of the story for me.
This whole sorry story is just an excuse not to do anything and not to get involved. The utter maximum that this series of media events requires Joe Public to do is go to a rock concert. Political participation has been reduced to passive entertainment.
It's no good saying that these celebrities and entertainers raise consciousness or highlight causes or bring in the uninterested youth, they may do that but at a price.
Their price is this; "Entertain Me, Amuse Me, Stimulate My jaded psyche". If the price for getting the younger generation to get involved is massaging the inflated egos of Rock stars and Gangster Rappers then I would sooner they didn’t even try.
This sort of activism is soporific not stimulating and utter poison to a democracy. It places celebrities of questionable intelligence and dubious morals as the spokespersons of global issues that they have no understanding of or dedication to. Lets face it, if Bono was so desperately concerned with Darfur he would move there, either with a rifle or a shovel in his hand (take your pick Bono, no pun intended) and actually do some work. Bono looks like a decent enough man but he is dedicated to his own celebrity first. He will do a lot for Africa but he will do a lot for himself as well. And that really is the whole weakness of these charity events they have to serve the rich first so the poor will always be beholden to them.

And now I feel a bit of scripture coming on, stop me if you’ve heard it before but it goes a little something like this

" And so I say unto thee;
When thou say thine prays be not like the Pharisees who pray at the street corner, for they have already had their reward,
When thou say thine prays go unto thine private place for the Lord God will see what thy do and he shall reward thee "