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An Open Letter To Everyone Trying To Sell Me Something
Get your shift together.
As I watch the Australian skies blacken, the news channels go ticker-tape orange or decide whether or not it is smoke-safe to take my children outside, I feel the shift.
As I talk to people in the street, in my office, on the phone, on Facetime, at the Post Office or in the coffee line, we feel the shift.
During these first days of the brand new decade, society is at a standstill to see if it will still stand.
Do we need to stay the same? Busy, organised and important? Trading marbles and building card houses? Competing and comparing? Or do we just need to focus on staying indoors? Securing water and our windows? What matters now? We don’t know.
Behind the glow of our TV screens and smart phones, we are watching the tumbling destruction of a future. We are seeing the evaporation of nature, cuddly koalas, entire species, ecosystems, and the flora and fauna that supports us all.
And then up pops a Sponsored Ad.
“Be Gorgeous This Summer in Florals.”
A girl with perfectly placed teeth under a perfect sky with a fake laugh and a polyester Panama-appropriated straw hat.
Um. What the.
