Song:
THIS IS NOT SILVIA NIGHT
This not Silvia Night
She has left without a fight
Now´s a time to think, and a time to care
something Silvia would never dare.
This is not Silvia Night.
Come has the morning light.
With pain-throbbing heads we now can see
that greed really does not set us free.
This is not Silvia Night
She has gone all out of sight.
Now it´s time to see the world exactly as it is
letting honesty and fairness no longer go amiss.
This is not Silvia Night……..
Silvia Night (Silvía Nótt) was a fictional Icelandic TV-character and singer. She was conceived by the authors as a spoof on a hyper-commercialized, over-sexualized and thoughtless Icelandic youth-culture, which in turn was only the reflection of a greedy egotistical adult culture. The character became very popular among Icelandic kids, although the actress of the role, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, often got the feeling the kids did not get the irony and the social criticism behind it.
In 2006 Silvía Nótt was chosen to be Iceland´s contribution to the European song-contest with the song “Congratulation Iceland”. Staying in character she offended everyone and made last place.
This did not hurt her popularity among Icelandic children, though. After a last CD with a near pornographic cover the act was retired.
Today, after the bust, “Silvía Nótt” could make an excellent metaphor for the culture surrounding the Icelandic boom-times.
But her times are over now, in Iceland and everywhere else.
Where do we go from here?
Let´s think about it.
[...] Not Silvia Night [...]
Hey, I want you to have a new post, you are on my check in list when I log on to the interwebs. I have been to Iceland and I want to go there to write my book. You have a good take on the world and I want to know more! What about all this stuff on Japan? And the pending collapse of the almighty US$$ I want to see a new post!
cheers!
anothershamus
Thanks anothershamus
for reading and your encouragement. I will get to writing again.
And I have been thinking about the consequences of the Japan disaster a lot recently. Different from many of the alternative writers, although a terrible threat for the health of many Japanese people, I still don´t think it to be the end of the world.
The Chernobyl disaster had severe consequences for the Ukrainian and Belorussian people in the immediate area, but although the radiation clouds went all over Europe the radiation had seemingly very little impact on the health of other Europeans, which means that the human immune system in general can deal with some temporary increase of radiation.
As for the Japanese people, I´m speculating that they might find ways to boost the immune system´s capacity and possibly find and allow alternative cancer therapies to counter the effects of the radiation. (I think that alternative cancer therapies and prevention measures, which are outlawed in the West, since they don´t bring money into the coffers of big Pharma, might also have a positive effect on radiation caused cancer.)
Another effect of the disaster might be, that there will be enough public pressure world-wide to end the drive towards replacing carbon sourced energy with nuclear energy and possibly a pressure towards the truth about “Global Warming” and “Climate Change”.
As for the US$.
I don´t think it will be very relevant for the rest of the world. The elites are planning for a global currency, basically controlling the monetary policies and from the economies of all the world´s countries. And this will be relevant