{"id":15473,"date":"2011-03-21T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2011\/03\/21\/forget-the-children\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:16","slug":"forget-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2011\/03\/21\/forget-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig and I watched the movie Last Night<\/em> the other evening (Last Night<\/em><\/a>, 1998, Canada). It’s a great movie, full of moments and emotions I haven’t encountered in other media forms — not to mention that it’s set in Toronto and says it’s Toronto instead of pretending it’s Chicago or wherever else.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s a pre-Millenial film contemplating the end of the world, and there’s a great line at one point that I bark-laughed at:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Rose:<\/em><\/strong> I don’t give a damn. People are always saying ‘The children. Pity the children’. I’m tired of the children. They haven’t lived, given birth, watch their friends die. I have invested 80 years in this life. The children don’t know what they’re missing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As our local by-election approaches, candidates keep dropping off flyers that play on that theme of making Wick a great\/safe\/not-derelict place for “our children”. I’m with Rose: Screw that! I’m living here now. Fix it now!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But to the local council I’d say “Leave it alone! Stop tinkering with public services and historic buildings, because you’re only going to break them.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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