I needed some kind of inspiration for me to make an interesting post, and some of the best inspiration I can always get from work, and that's what I did today: I went to work. Yahoo for me!
Today in the till I noticed a twenty dollar note unlike any other, it had a protest on it! Check it out!
Now if you can't read neo-greenie high horse it says "TRUST JOHNNY HOWARD. ? (Squiggly mark) No No No (Squiggly mark) ." and even if you can read it, that's still what it says.
Did you get the ever so subtle message? Howard has the word "war" in his name so they've highlighted it to refer to his connections with a war! It's like since his last name has "war" in it, he is destined to participate in a war! *poke* Geddit? *poke poke*
Clearly this twenty dollar must of been scribbled on by some self-righteous hippie whilst the election between Mark Latham and John Howard took place and people were still bitchy about the 2003 "invasion" of "Iraq" by "The Coalition" and wanted "Mark Latham" to be "elected" in the 2004 "federal election" because they "reckon" he could "stop it" (Ok, I'll stop with the quotation marks). It was also scribbled on during a time when that phrase would of still been considered clever.
Nowadays, your average Australian citizen cares a little less about the war in Iraq because we're all focusing on some war between Israel and Lebanon, and we've even stopped focusing on that because it's footy finals season. So this twenty dollar note represents a moment in time when a whole lot of whiny Aussies decided that they don't like the war because people die in it, and we all stepped up and let John Howard know that we don't like him anymore because he sent troops out to kill and get killed. It's a piece of history, basically, so I might keep it for a bit until I lack money and actually need to spend it and then some other unfortunate sod will be stuck with a twenty dollar note that has a slightly outdated protest scribbled on it. Or it's still valid, I don't know how hippies think.
But wow, what a great way to protest. Sure it's illegal, sure people will be embarrassed to use it now, but at least people will read your message and you will be heard by the masses due to the power of consumerism and money circulation. Besides, nobody wants to chuck a twenty dollar note away, do they?
Think about it
-C
3 comments:
What fun! You could take a foto-album and put it in, along with various other "historical artifacts" you find (or create) and call it A Political Pocket History or some such thing of the kind.
Don't you wonder at what the protester hoped for? Just a desire to be heard by someone out there, or something more than that?
I think the protester just wanted to get on his/her high horse and complain about John Howard and didn't want anyone to know who was doing it because he/she is a coward, but I respect the concept.
I have a few items of recent political history Lada. Out of sheer curiority I decided to collect the pamphlets and propaganda they were handing out during the weeks... and weeks... and weeks... of protests in France earlier this year. After what seemed like an eternity of general strikes, stoppages, demonstrations and even riots, the disgraced government folded like a poorly-constructed house of cards and the misguided student activists had their way (as is commonly the case in France, where all disputes are resolved by one or both sides surrendering). It all turned out to be a pointless waste of time, and I suspect the souvenirs are now worthless. Bah. C'est ça la France...
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