Fatal separation of the act and the consequence... I'm becoming old ?

A young guy kills his little sister with a hammer and a knife after a heated debate over a math calculation. Then he also kills his other sister who is just coming back home so that she would not see her little sister dead. The boy says that nothing would have happened if the hammer would not have been lying next to him.

Four young guys aged 17, 19 23 break into a random appartment. They torture to death 66 years old man and his 33 old son and then burn the appartment. They get some money.

The horrible incidence in Jokela at end of last year, and in Myyrmanni 5 or so years ago, and actually now when I think of it the list of such deeds seem to go on and on ...

I cannot help thinking that commodization of the violence in everything we see (TV series, TV news, movies, games, ...) has managed to permanantly separate the act and the consequence from each other in the minds of our new generations, and that the results can now be seen everywhere.
Not a world and future which I specificly would like to live in and nor do I like the idea that it's where the boys have to live for the next 60orso years. I feel old.

1971 Grange, horse races, taxi licences and rare coins...

This xmas I bought 5 course dinner in Postres for Nina. While I waited for her in the restaurang I had my hands on a great looking magazine Fine - Scandinavien fine wine magazine if I recall it correctly... very interesting story about Penfolds Grange as an investment. Had a good spontanous "räkänauru" when I bumbed into this: "For many year Access Economics was using 1971 Grange as measurement for economics. As an investment it beat other top alternative investments as horse racing, taxi licenses and rare coins" ;o)

well actually not too much to laugh at since 40x return on the investment is not too bad ? just that the combination of top investments was so odd

WidSets adverts...

Pretty awsome to see WidSets adverts in Metro station, inside metro, inside busses ...

Eco cars ? Ego cars ....

Sort of tragicomic ? Since once we now start downscaling (in terms of fuel consumption) why not then really downscale (also in terms of our oversized "egos") - who really needs them that big and for what ?

This is how it should work...

Anguished by the vanishing snow and shitty rain I was searching for "Äkkilähdöt laskettelu" with Google... the 1st sponsored link was
"Hiihtokeskus - www.google.fi/igoogle Snow Report iGoogle Gadget tietää aina missä lunta riittää!"
Click and wham ... I got a very comforting and (sort of) usefull gadget for following weather, piste and snow info in the preffered centers.

For me this was the first time I saw it all working like it really should.

We do because we can....

A thought from Pentti Linkola's 75-year anniversary interview in Hesari has been wondering thru my mind ever since I read it ... "People buy SUV's because they can." Unfortunately that is true - we buy big consuming cars as long as we can, we fly long and short distances for our holidays and work as long as we can, ... then when it's over we do something different which we yarn for as long we can. In intellectual level total costs matter but unfortunately in emotional level way too few of us (me including) just do not act as we say we should.

One of driving things for mankind but also main source of our disasters...