CHANGING THE WORLD MY ASSET!!!

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 If you are anything like me, I know there is a very little chance of that but it’s worth the try, then you are as mightily pissed off by swollen-headed, self-conceited, vain humans who brand themselves as artists and have the nerve to stand in front of a camera and shamelessly proclaim to the whole world how they will, and have, changed the world.

When it’s pointed out that what they are doing is called earning their upkeep, they shamelessly say "it’s not about the money, it’s all about the art and what I wanted to do". Pleeeassseee then if you love your art so much why not get a job, do your art at free time and give it away or at least don’t charge me an arm, a leg, an eye and a ball for a canvas with some paints? Normal people too have things they would like to do, called hobbies, and you do them at their free time. I want to be a millionaire, and am having rotten luck with that. It’s all about the money baby!!!

Am not trying to downplay the impact of artists in our lives: what will we do without Soulja Boy’s Marco Polo after barely escaping with our lives after being caught in a shootout? What I abhor is Britney Spears saying she wants to change the world. The only thing she will be changing any time soon is diapers, whether she wants it or not. 

All people do have an impact in the world, yes, but there is no room for the self-deluding in my heart. We all have heard the line I am changing the world in a small way. Now that a line used by all losers and low self-esteemed people to make themselves feel better and to feed their malnourished egos. Picking up a paper does not change the world: the paper is simply transferred from the sidewalk to a landfill. If you had eaten the paper, now that would have changed your world!!

Listed below are some of the people or groups of people who should refrain from using the cliché:

Musicians

 Your throwing in of a line on global warming in your song and then flying halfway across the world in a personal jet did not, I repeat, did not reduce the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere and neither did your telling me to read books instead of listening to the radio (how then was I supposed to get the damn message?). If you start a social hall in your neighborhood, now that changes lives. If you want us to read, open libraries we can access, otherwise shut the fcuk up and make those self-serving and exalting songs we shall listen to when we want to escape our sorrows and leave advice to the pros.

Artists

In this category am talking to painters, sculptors mainly because they make easier targets, and also because I fall in the other category of writers, playwrights and bloggers. Ha! Splashing colours and paints on a canvas does not in any way change the world, in fact your adding to the pollutants in the environment and the mind (more on that in a later article if I get round to it), nor does it help anyone, except of course you, who ends up with a big hefty paycheck. Changing a slab of stone to an animal-looking thingy I would agree is of aesthetic value but I digress on its importance to human civilization and advancement. A sculpture never helped a starving man, unless he is the sculptor, and is what my grandmother would call a fool’s endeavor: wasting so much effort that could have been put to better use working on a farm.

Athletes

I may stay up all night watching the grand slam, the IRB sevens or the Champion’s League, but I would advice you to reduce the quantity of hallucinogens you are taking if you think a WWE superstar impacts in any way on my life (why are they called superstars? Only young boys and a few psycho men know them). Sports might change the world. (Keyword: might. Let me research that one first. I have shot myself enough times in the foot and have no intention of shooting my leg too). Athletes don’t. 

YOU DIGG!!!

So you are all wondering, who then changes the world. I will give you some examples:

Wangari Mathai changed the world.

Nelson Mandela changed the world.

Einstein changed the world. 
Shaka Zulu changed the world.
Osama changed the world.
Bush changed the world for the worse.
Martin Luther King changed the world.
Churchill, not the comedian, changed the world.
Hitler did change the world.

Anyone with a single or a painting out there who feels they should be on this list?

  What the Fruit?!

I was recently dragged to an art gallery against my will, purportedly to help me appreciate life, emotions and struggles frozen in canvas (not my word). What I did appreciate was the luxury money affords one, for the buyers, did I tell you we were there to just watch? And Federer was playing against Nadal? , were doling out money for paintings which if given to me, would end up in a trash bin and the frame sold for a few shillings. One suspiciously looked as if the painter had simply taken paint and thrown it on the canvas. Which he indeed confirmed as true saying it signified the chaos and randomness in life. Let’s try that shall we?
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Was that a master piece of a sentence or what?