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so i finished watching A Dime with a Halo.
It's amazing how much one forgets in 56 years.
It's a good story. Money can just slip away
so easy. It was sickening to see how the sister
suddenly was nice to the young guy. She was all
over him AFTER she found out in was going to be in
the money. True gold digger. But in the end
those kids didn't get down too hard, they kept on
trucking as though nothing happened. That's how
you gotta live. Keep your spirit up, ya never know
when your dream is going to land. Be ready, it could
happen. :)
### - haha it was a horrible story really, very well made & am glad i saw
it, but a sad tale wherein even jebus wasn't much help in the end huh,
their only hope/dream cruelly smashed and their noses rubbed in it: poor
you are and poor shall you forever remain, and trying/hoping to get out of
the situation is only the evil spawn of the devil as hissed by the
priests...
fuck that! (laughing hehe...)
but this 'is' the world in all it's un-painted glory!
strip away all the 'gloss' and what's going down on this planet is
genuinely shameful, no wonder then we sweep it all under the carpet so
keenly & avidly... like many movies and books of this genre this one too
was immediately destined to be deliberately lost down the back of some
obscure & forgotten filing cabinet, stories that disturb us and leave
their mark because they hint at an underlying truth...
everyone all as greedy & as two-faced as that, all the women whores & all
the men gangsters, all hustling for a living and robbing each other, the
poor robbing the poor, the upper 20% all living in the lap of luxury far
away in another world and well protected from the rabble by a police force
and armies and stuff, the other 80% left to squabble & fight over the few crumbs that fall from their masters' table, the world as it is in glaring
black & white, all of us those same street kids in one form or another...
thus kinda appreciate old shorty's somewhat heart warming tale re a
similar bunch of street kids actually being better off in some ways, in
that some of them may go on to become men of knowledge whereas the people
they beg from haven't even gots a hope in hell despite all their
affluence...
the truth, however, is that this actually applies to all, that everyone
has an equal chance and it's just that some are more buried in the mire
than others are, the more invested one is in that mire is the more it
captures your time & attention, the less you have (the poorer you are)
being the easier it is to let go because you ain't carrying that much to
begin with, that less is more is actually true in that sense and for that
very reason... the wealthy being far too busy with other pursuits to even
care live-on in their ivory towers, or their "just cages with golden bars"
as charles bukowski once said heh...
how true :)
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