Glob-a-log

(What the world really needs…)

You know, what with reality TV, the daily examples of the eloquence of Gordon Brown, the preposterous posturing of wannabe foster parents like Madonna and delightful billboard ads that offer such wild varieties of consumer delights as candle lit Big Mac dinners for two and full Brazilians for pets, it could be argued that the Western world is in dire need of a cultural shake-up…

… and while it would make for a pleasing image to send a few Bin Laden blow-up dolls to the various persons and offices most responsible for our own brand of old Gibbons’s Decline & Fall, that would not be a very nice thing to do…

… and, far worse, it would only inspire the Endemol crowd to come up with yet another Big Brother type series – a Big Beardie House, or something like that, with Our Lady of Sorrows, the Divine Davina, clad in a see-through Burkha, interviewing the wannabe martyrs…

… which would not really help the wider cause of elevating the masses.

No, we need a more cultural revolution – and not the kind that leads to Mao posters replacing the old Bambi posters in the bedrooms of spoiled, Western adolescent boys, thank you very much.

We need a proper upholding of our cultural upholstery, so to speak. So, what we really, really need is more museums.

Hey, don’t take my word for it. Ask Jorma Toivonen, a Swedish male nurse:

“Jorma Toivonen’s dream is to open a sex museum, but municipal councils have been lukewarm. In the meantime “Scandinavia’s largest collection of erotic items” will be put on show in a Stockholm suburban garden. Toivonen, a 52-year-old nurse, has long harboured ambitions of putting on display his collection of more than 15,000 articles, a collection he believes to be the largest of its kind in northern Europe.

Toivonen is in no doubt that a sex museum is needed.”

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