I don’t know why I only just came across this. But I am convinced it is the best thing on the Internet.
And out of all the countless “remixes” of this clip out there, this is my favorite. The curses one is close, but this is really well-made. And it has Lost in it. Awesome-ness.
As pretty much everyone undoubtedly knows, there’s a bit of a problem in Burma. A problem that has existed for 19 years. So why is it that people have only decided to speak out against it (and by “it,” I mean the military junta controlling the country) recently? If it’s been going on for so long, why haven’t people protested before? Well, I suppose that there may have been protests at some point in the past (I would have been mucking around in a sea of amniotic fluid when the junta was established), but if it’s that big of a deal, people should have been protesting non-stop. I mean, do you think people protesting the genocide in Darfur are ever going to let up? They’ll probably wait for a couple years after the genocide has stopped to quit handing out T-shirts and leaflets.
Anyways, this whole deal reminds me of a Maddox post about Christopher Reeve, calling him out for not supporting cures for paraplegia until after he became one. He has a point, however rudely (should there be a c before that?) he presents it. The same, I think, goes for the situation in Burma. It’s been happening for 19 years. But no one noticed until the Burmese government pulled a fast one and raised the price of diesel 500%, which eventually raised the ire of Buddhist monks. When Buddhist monks get pissed, you know something’s going down.
