I have decided this week’s posts to be me commenting on things I find elsewhere. Today’s story is one that is featured on most newspaper’s website and commented on by a lot of people. My commentary will be in here though (see reason in previous post). Anyways, I am of course talking about the newest ‘Global Peace Index‘ that rates UK as the 49th most violent place in the world, measuring external and internal turmoil. UK is placed just below Panama (48) and one place above Mozambique (50) which probably makes it a bit more atrocious (literally speaking this is). The top countries are Iceland, Denmark and Norway, respectively. Iraq, Somalia and Sudan unsurprisingly take the bottom three places in the index.
For me being a Dane, this isn’t that surprising - I’ve always known Marcellus from Hamlet was wrong when saying ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’. Now, I’m just grumbling about why I chose to live in England (London which is the worst place of them all, I guess) when I could have stayed put in little Copenhagen? I should maybe grumble about why I didn’t move to Iceland instead. But then again, their foreign minister’s name is ‘Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottiir’ - which would probably give me some language barriers to struggle with on second thoughts.
But I don’t want to complain or sound lugubrious - I’m happy where I am. At least most of the time.
And while sitting here in my flat in East End London (Jack The Ripper’s old area actually) thinking about crime and violence, I haven’t really got anything important (or stupid) thing to say about it. Firstly because the word ‘crime’ alone just nauseates me. Secondly, crime, I believe, is one of the subjects that one either discuss in length or neglect by the rule of reason. So by taking the second, and easy option, I have decided to upload some pictures I took earlier today as well as quote The Kinks’s song called Apeman (I know it’s a bit corny) as it seems a bit more deep than what I could come up with:
I think I’m so educated and I’m so civilized
cos I’m a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
All pictures above are taken and copyrighted by Christian Halsted ®
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