Hedonism and Dirty Water

sewage in Dubai waters

For all it's much declared  love of liberty and fairness , morality and justice, Hollywood has been a major contributor to tourism in a place where slavery and degradation of servants seems not to bother the rich and privileged much at all.

Here  is a very good report on the desert vacation spot that stays one half step away from being engulfed in the sand from which is sprung. It deserves a good read and some thought.

As Johann Hari says,
"Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history."

Why are the elite who go there able to suspend humanity and feed cash into this awful place? How are expats who delight in it not called back to reality and an end to self involvement?
Why is recreation today centered on mindless consumerism and also never ending self involvement?
When the world comes crashing down on itself,and it seems more likely that it will each passing day,  people will have to do some serious hard thinking about where they placed their values. It is past time for the world to consider what really matters and to begin to focus on truth and goodness.

Here is a place were working men and women from impoverished nations are taken shameless advantage of, imprisoned and held like slaves, defrauded and duped.  A place where the beaches that attract those hungry for the "good" life are polluted with human waste.
Do they even know the meaning of  'good'?