Money Is Not The Measure Of All Things!!

You, Kind Readers, out there in the Nothingness of Electrically Charged Silicon Particles that is the Blogosphere, may well be under the illusion that all us Pop-Schlop Wannabes dream of is Money : The kind of Money that finances the crass displays of Empty-Headed Materialism we all readily associate with the Venal & Wacky World of Pop Excess & the Woeful Inadequates who inhabit its middens & its Glory-Holes! The kind of Money that can pamper the most developmentally-stunted Ego and indulge the extreme Whims & Under-Educated Caprices thereof....I mean, smuggling your pet mountain lion into your hotel suite as you lob yet another television set out of the window!?!?......but, Lo! the STONEDHOLYBLOGGER, your convivial host, must avow it to be not always so!

True, my Mettle is somewhat untested, for in the Trial by Marketplace that measures the worth of what you do in units shifted, it seems I am practically Worthless! Who knows what Depravities I have been saved, what Cesspits of Human Debauchery I have been stopped from sinking into by my almost complete Failure in the Business part of the 'Music Business'.....I can, of course, content myself with the fact that although, yes, it would be good not to worry about paying the next electric bill, Money Is Not The Measure Of All Things and this World of Pop Slop is an arena where "thieves & pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason!!"

Leaving aside the manifest failings of yir average Popslopper as any kind of human being worthy of respect we must direct our gaze at the Society that Spawns these Air-Brushed & Tousle-Haired Disasters. We are constantly sold the idea that choice in all things is good, but if we're a Society that chooses Hospital Treatment in the same way we choose what Arts & Craft fittings to adorn our 1930's bungalow it doesn't say a lot about what we value. If we choose university education in the same way we only ever shop at Harvey Nichols then the Society we're part of is in serious trouble. If we're a society that thinks being ferried by Mumsy to the other side of the city every morning through the gridlocked streets to reach our school of choice is the same as buying handbags then trouble lies ahead! What all of these things boil down to is MONEY.....and as always, there's thems that have it and thems that don't. All of which doesn't do a lot for Social Cohesion and the idea that we ALL have a place and a stake in something called Society. We could use other words here to further illustrate the point ; words like Humanity, Group, Community, Collective or Union. 'Society 'though,  is not really a word the present bunch of dullards who sit at the helm of 'HMS We're-All-In-This-Together' like very much, unless it's part of the phrase'The Big Society' which any right-minded person knows is nothing more than hot-air! Britain is falling apart at the seams!

 Once upon a time when Nazi bombs were raining down on British cities and we really were 'all in it together' the bonds that connect us all were plain for all to see. And after the dust cleared the people who had done the dirty work of cleaning the mess up voted for a National Health Service and the Nationalisation of Rail & Coal. But, things are somehow different now and this is a Modern World where Money Is The Measure Of All Things........There Must Be Better Things! There Must Be Better Songs To Sing! There Must Be Better Scenes! There Must Be Better Dreams To Dream!

Maybe Martin Luther King hit the nail on the head when he said "A Nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."....then again, as Woody Allen once succinctly put it "Money Is Better Than Poverty, If Only For Financial Reasons." Well yi cannae argue wi that, can yi?!?!