Monday 24 April 2023
Spoof v Reality
It’s a rum business writing blog posts. Ideas pop into my head or I read something online which is worth sharing and sometimes it becomes a blog post and sometimes it doesn’t. Ideas don’t become blog posts for a range of reasons - here’s an example from this afternoon.
I had an idea for a spoof post where somebody in government proposes a breathing tax. Most unlikely to be an original idea, but easy enough to dream up some kind of tiny monitoring device linked to a smartphone. It would register the amount of oxygen consumed during breathing and transmit it via the phone to a government department.
Two options all adults would face would be to have the measuring device fitted or pay a standard, unmeasured tax. The ultimate goal would be for everyone to wear the monitoring device apart from the usual suspects.
The trouble is, I decided it wasn’t quite right for a spoof post - not quite daft enough to make the post worth writing. There is a dark side to it behind the daftness. It’s a little too close to the crazed levels of micro-managed behaviour we see already. A little too close to current absurdities.
In one sense I’ve written the post already, but not as a spoof. It wouldn't have worked.
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6 comments:
“ sometimes it becomes a blog post and sometimes it doesn’t”
I’ll have to study this and learn how to do it.
It certainly has worked!
I've just had to breath an extra three seconds while I stand up to refill my glass of red, so the Drinks Commissariat, Wine Division, Tunbridge Wells, has even more details on our imbibing habits!
It's just as well that they haven't cottoned on to the mobile phone owned by Cynthia Molestrangler, as she does like the odd gasp as well...
...and as for Edwina Baggage, well, .....
James - it's a kind of restraint :)
Scrobs - Drinks Commissariat, Wine Division, Tunbridge Wells sounds like the kind of job Ms Abbott may soon be looking for.
When they force drivers onto cycles in their 15minute cities they claim it will reduce vehicle CO2. I wonder how much extra CO2 is panted out by the increased number of cyclists and walkers?
I can see why it should be, but isn't now, spoothworthy. Just a bit too contiguous to the recent Dutch government's attempt to close down their agricultural production to save on nitrogen emmisions.
Woodsy - and if they have to wear masks during the next pandemic...
Tammly - good point, that one is even crazier than the spoof.
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