That blasted BOOGIE MAN!
"Miss I want to be a dangerous man...like Fifty Cent...killin people an ting." These are the words of young Joseph, a five year old Fist Year Infant student, in an early morning class discussion, after seeing Fifty over the weekend in Get Rich or Die Trying.
In Trinidad and Tobago the demand for boogie-down merchandise is ever growing, the booming $10-$20 DVD market being the most current and obvious example. Our need for pirated goods is quite honestly getting out of hand but even more alarming is the fact that this obvious symptom of our moral and social depravity is accepted as a mere convenience.
My mother often told me "stealing is stealing, whether you take a hundred dollars or one cent if you take something that belongs to someone else it is wrong." I believe that. It is hard to imagine a scenario where the buying and selling of these stolen foreign products could be legitimized and the market continue to thrive as it now does. These goods would become too expensive and demand would fall followed by their decreased influence on the masses. For our honesty and commitment to fair trade we pay by having to rely on our own creativity for entertainment. Instead of filling our consciousness with the sex, bling and violence ofHollywood
With the blimp, and the anti kidnapping squad, the constitutional reform, and the community integration programmes, spending a few minutes and a few dollars to deal with this notorious Boogie man must be part of our agenda.
In Trinidad and Tobago the demand for boogie-down merchandise is ever growing, the booming $10-$20 DVD market being the most current and obvious example. Our need for pirated goods is quite honestly getting out of hand but even more alarming is the fact that this obvious symptom of our moral and social depravity is accepted as a mere convenience.
My mother often told me "stealing is stealing, whether you take a hundred dollars or one cent if you take something that belongs to someone else it is wrong." I believe that. It is hard to imagine a scenario where the buying and selling of these stolen foreign products could be legitimized and the market continue to thrive as it now does. These goods would become too expensive and demand would fall followed by their decreased influence on the masses. For our honesty and commitment to fair trade we pay by having to rely on our own creativity for entertainment. Instead of filling our consciousness with the sex, bling and violence of
With the blimp, and the anti kidnapping squad, the constitutional reform, and the community integration programmes, spending a few minutes and a few dollars to deal with this notorious Boogie man must be part of our agenda.
posted by dregus | 4:29 AM
3 Comments:
I am glad to see that Bessjooce is once again up and running.
It's so shameful... Trinidad even teefin cable! and more than likely even the shows that we watch on local...and imagine the cable company, that should really be some little backstreet piratey schupidness is our LOCAL cable company!! we poor dread.
yeah i hear de local cable compny does teif half of them stations and programmin...de feel dey must do anyting it takes to have a bess cable...
this is just as bad as downloading music and listening to the same song over and over again...wat?:|
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