The Vegemite
Last week bleary eyed and fumbling around in the fridge I dropped a full $6 jar of Vegemite on the kitchen tiles! The impact smashed the glass pulverizing it into a fine dust at the point of impact.
The Vegemite was in the fridge because we have tiny ants that are so determined to get our food that they will chew through just about anything. They are capable of eating through plastic and although the jar is glass the lid is not and so the Vegemite goes in the fridge with all the other stuff that Southerners would leave in a cupboard.
This morning I replicated the exact scene with pinpoint accuracy! Butter in one hand Vegemite in the other I was trying to slide it over the peanut butter when the condensation on the jar caused it to slip just enough to clip the peanut butter jar and fall precisely where the other one did last week!
I couldn’t believe it, but it really happened sometimes things like that just do.
We replaced it this time with a plastic tube instead.
On a completely different note. We watched The Corporation tonight and the reality of the whole corporate situation was so glaringly obvious that I wondered why there hadn’t been some kind of revolution to free us of this tyranny. Then I remembered that of course there will be no revolution. It’s too late for that now that we are all share holders; our pensions are dependant on superannuation contributions that are channelled into investment funds the success of which is intrinsically linked to the profits made by the very corporations our consciences would otherwise forbid some of us from dealing with.
The film asked one very good moral question.
“What kind of person is the corporation?”
(The Corporation : a film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan)
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