TOUGHEST READER CHALLENGE OF ALL TIME
Today’s quest: try to work out how North Korean poverty is anything at all to do with “the vivid intensity with which the rest of us are destroying our home”.
Today’s quest: try to work out how North Korean poverty is anything at all to do with “the vivid intensity with which the rest of us are destroying our home”.
It all makes sense to the ABC’s Jonathan Green:
i guess this shows two things: 1. how deprived and impoverished the people of North Korea truly are, and 2. the vivid intensity with which the rest of us are destroying our home. https://t.co/g8SmWNpp3u
— Jonathan Green (@GreenJ) June 3, 2018
not intrinsically, but the ways in which we produce energy, our dependence on it, the intensity of our population and its effects on the broader planet are destroying it. it seems clearer every day. #seriously
— Jonathan Green (@GreenJ) June 4, 2018
I guess this shows two things: 1. Jonathan looks at light and sees decay, and 2. a blighted, ruinous North Korea and a lively, illuminated free world are both bad.
UPDATE. This explains everything. Carlton has lost seven night matches so far this year. It’s made poor Blues fan Jonathan hate electricity.
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