Do You Want Fries With That?
Vultures, famine, fake tan — this post asks where your outrage lands when tragedy meets apathy. Global warming? World hunger? Or just fries? It’s a buffet of ethical dissonance, served with a side of climate denial and influencer indifference. Warning: may contain traces of moral whiplash and lukewarm compassion.
The photo is the Pulitzer Prize-winning image taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine.
The frame captures a child, hollowed by hunger, crawling toward a United Nations food camp. A kilometer away. An eternity away.
The vulture waits. It is patient. It understands the economy of death better than the humans watching from behind their screens. The photographer, Kevin Carter, took the shot and left. Three months later, he left the world entirely, unable to reconcile the click of a shutter with the silence that followed.
The ground is probably warm. The vulture is an endangered species. The child is likely dust.
Where should our ‘engagement’ go?
- Global warming metrics?
- Biodiversity preservation?
- Systemic famine?
It’s a buffet of ethical dissonance, isn’t it? Too many tabs open in the soul. System failure. Error 404: Compassion Not Found.
Which reminds me—I really need to buy some more fake tan before the weekend. Do you want fries with that?
Harry is a satirist in remission who now moonlights as a metaphysical desk jockey. He specialises in cosmic admin, recursive nonsense, and the occasional algorithmic incident report. One poem he wrote still hasn’t stopped, and several readers claim it whispers back during thunderstorms.
This piece is raw, jarring, and intentionally dissonant — a collision of tragedy, apathy, and consumer absurdity. It juxtaposes one of the most haunting images of human suffering with biting commentary on distraction and moral disengagement. The tonal shifts are deliberate and unsettling, and the satire is razor-edged.