A Year On The Soapbox

Yes.

Mike's Soapbox Is One year old this month.
I've had a great time in the past year commenting on our world.

So many things have happened between September 2006 and September 2007. Tthis is an update on my blogs of the past year. Have I been right? Have I been wrong? Or do we all have to wait a little longer for the soapbox to be vindicated?

I started back in September 2006, after idiots in a city bar were behaving like yuppies. Unfortunately these types of people still exist but I have never been back in that bar again.

Then I talked about the dangers of fertility treatment.
In the summer of 2007 a woman announced that she had donated her eggs to be kept in storage for her 14-year-old daughter that has fertility problems, if she chooses to use them. As she will not be able to conceive in later life. The ramifications of which is dire as this girl will give birth to her half sister, and the egg donor would be both mother and grandmother to the child. I think this is the first time that morality of fertility treatment has ever been bought into question.
Has anyone considered that the gene pool can be polluted like any other natural system on the Earth. The damage now has already been done and the gene pool may never recover. The gene pool is for every species of plant, animal, or single celled organism on the planet not just for Humans. Life will continue on this planet long after we are extinct.


Consumerism is still rampant on the planet, with our desires treated like trends on a graph, and products invented to save time and labour on a problem that we never noticed before.
No change I’m afraid to say readers. Be patient the day will come.
Although, I issued a challenge on the message board of www.levellers.co.uk I asked them to write down every single brand name in just one room of their home. The purpose was to highlight the invasiveness of the corporate identity. Only one person took up the challenge and was predictably shocked at the result too.
I am quite happy to open one set of eyes at time. You never know what that one person can achieve with opened eyes.

I take great care in what I wear. It annoyed me five years ago when people started wearing Che Guevara T-shirts or ones that say Cuba on them blatantly not knowing who Che Guevara was or any thing about Cuba. I remember upsetting someone over that too. I guess that I just asked too many questions over it….
"Have you been to Cuba?"
"No"
“Are you Cuban?”
“No.”
“Are you going to Cuba?”
“No.”
“Are you planning to go?”
“Not really. No.”
“Do you smoke cigars?”
“No.”
“ Do you contribute to the gross national product of Cuba in anyway?”
“Huh? Err No.”
Now this last question, for some reason I don’t know why, gets peoples backs up, it really need not.
“Are you a Communist?”
“No I’m not.” The annoying person then left us in peace, hopefully with a new concept of “Fashion Sense”.

People still get offended when you offer them advice.
Now girls and boys are wearing Arabic head scarves. You know the ones you see worn by an Iraqi militant on BBC news 24 as he bounces out of the back of a Toyota flat bed firing his AK-47 wildly in the air.
Well this young girl got offended because I merely informed her of what the headscarf was.
I believe a degree of understanding would not have gone amiss on her part, considering there are people of her own country and town shooting and being shot by people wearing those things. Which brings me nearly onto.

More terror attacks on British soil, after a refusal to withdraw from the illegal battleground of Iraq. Prince Harry predictably never went to Iraq.

But a major victory for the “Mike’s Soapbox’s idea of world order” though.
On the subject of text voting and TV phone-in Quizzes.
After a massive exposé was launched in to them, the media regular fell on them like a tonne of old brick mobile phones.
ItvPLAY was taken off the air indefinitely and big brother had to have serious rethink of their live evictions after more gaffes in the same week. Blue Peter got its knuckles rapped for faking a competition winner live on air, but got a away with receiving a hot teaspoon on the back of the hand.
Blue Peter appeared to be recidivists too, they staged an online competition to name the Blue Peter cat even though the cat wasn’t Christened with the winning name, or that name Mike’s Soapbox wanted to call it.

Britain has a new Prime minister too, although most haven't noticed the change.
It appears the illusion of democracy is still alive and as strong as ever. People care more about some illiterate, loud-mouthed skank on the latest reality TV show, than the person or government charged with the protection of the nations wealth and population.

Avril Lavigne is being sued for allegedly plagiarising her song "boyfriend". I hope she gets her purse well and truly emptied over this.

More and more daft products enter our lives in attempt to make things easer. This won’t happen in our current capitalist society, which is designed to make life harder. We used to just need food,water and shelter. Shelter was a luxury.

All in all it has been a tough year for most people that I know. Some things are getting better but most things are getting worse, so expect many more blogs posted soon. Please keep reading and together we can make a better world.

And Sir Topham Hatt AKA "the Fat Controller is still at large. But I hear that James Bond is being sent to sort things out.