Damned near every day you see another list, a slide show over at Huffpo about the 10 most livable cities in the world, 10 of the strangest recycling items, 10 foods you should eat before you die, or something forwarded via facebook about what are the 15 novels everybody should read or some such and you have to wonder, first, who makes up these fucking lists and, second, why.
Actually, I know why. I studied journalism and have dabbled in it a bit, probably more even than Christine O´Donnell dabbled in witchcraft, and the reason people make up lists like this is because an item is needed to fill space and anybody can write a list piece because you just make the bloody thing up, now, don´t you? I am getting to something, bear with me.
Wonders of the World to Come
Anyway, I just asked my wife to give me a topic for tonight’s blog and we happen to have a big coffee table book on our big coffee table, Velke Divy (great wonders) so there you have it. Now, the 7 wonders of the ancient world, which we all accept as an official ranking, was originally just that. The ancient version of a puff piece in whatever the ancient version of Home and Garden was.
I have to wonder, though, would my version differ? If I had to choose the seven wonders of the world today, I don’t know if I’d differ that much from the official version. Certainly if we are talking about natural wonders the Grand Canyon and some big waterfalls would have to be on it. Big stuff is awesome. As far as man made wonders I would put those islands off Dubai on the list. People are going to live there and they’re large enough to be seen from space. The channel tunnel. Giant cruise ships. The internet. Mobile phones. The Hubble telescope.
Actually,the next step is the 7 wonders of the information age, and the best is yet to come.
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