There is just something so crazy funny about this Simpsons’ painting.
Homer is mad as h*ll and has Bart by throat!
Bart is screaming for help.
It so funny how art imitates life.
Where people drive others $%#&^*)* crazy.
And the other person just wants to wring their freakin’ neck.
Yeah, this never really happens. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Thought this was a pretty scary mannequin.
Aside from the disheveled hair covering her head and half her face.
You can see that her mouth and nose is taped over with clear masking tape!
Clearly she looks like she has been abused or worse, and the image is that she can’t even scream for help.
Why anyone would advertise women’s fashion in this misogynist way should be beyond all of us.
There are a lot of crazy nuts out there.
This photo is a small reminder of what we face in terms of ugliness in this world.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So I used to have a boss who said something really funny.
He used to go, “Everybody says they want to help us” and then bemoaningly he would seem to repeat that a few times.
The next part which he didn’t need to explicitly say was that “But no one does!”
It was the words, but also much the tone–yes, the walls could be caving in, the ship could be sinking, everything going up in flames, and of course, everyone is there looking on, shaking their heads pitifully, and seemingly stretching out their hand in an offer of help.
For this boss though, the help couldn’t come fast enough or with enough resources to help resolve all the issues going on at the time.
I suppose first and foremost, we have to help ourselves.
Secondly, there needs to be a core understanding from the beginning of what is really doable and what is simply fantasy fare.
Third, if help is on the way–great, but it’s got to be timely enough and come with enough raw horsepower to make a genuine difference.
Finally, sometimes miracles do happen and everything works out great–the day is saved–but even then so much underlying damage has been done that you need to rebuild from the core foundations again.
And for the next time, you’ll need to ensure capabilities beyond what was ever imagined before. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
IF
1) you are a dissident living in a country that suppresses basic human rights
OR
2) you are a person seeking to help others suffering under authoritarian regimes
THEN
consider signing up at Movements.org, an organization that connects people in need of human rights help with those wanting to provide assistance.
After you create a profile, which is given a star rating depending on a vetting process, you can post requests for help or offers of services to help others.
Available services for “advice, contacts, training, and services,” include those from:
– Lawyers
– Journalists
– Technologists
– Translators
– Policy Makers
The great Soviet Jewish dissident, Natan Sharansky, who spent 10 years imprisoned in a tortuous gulag, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Movement.org is a “transformative approach to an old problem” for collecting and trying to get information on human-rights abuses to reach the free world and to seek justice and freedom.
While dictators looks to suppress freedom of speech and information flow, social media is combating it, and Movements was provided a grant from Google, I believe, to do just that. 😉
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