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I herby submit to the general population, the suggestion that any food product advertised as a specific type of food, must actually contain 51% of the type of food advertised, or put the name in quotes.
For example, no more Kraft Mac & Cheese. Either print Mac & Dairy Product Solids, Whey, Cheese Cultures and Disodium Phosphate or just label it as Mac & "Cheese".
Every night I go to bed more and more pissed off that I live in a country that values what is far more than what makes sense.
Americans demand convenience, even if that means sacrificing common sense and actual, proven convenience. Does your automatic toothbrush really make brushing your teeth any easier? If I didn't live in a state that devotes approximately nothing to public transportation, I would say my car is a complete waste of space. How about you?
And Americans demand low, low prices on the newest, coolest piece of shit, too. There's always going to be a new cellphone, or TV, or automobile or ergonomic desk chair with heated/chilled cup holders and a secret stow-away arm tray for holding your other useless electronic shit. So who cares? Why is keeping up with the trends, a fundamentally futile exercise, considered to be a normal, healthy pursuit by so many Americans?
The quest for cheap crap doesn't end there. Americans want cheap clothes, cheap furniture, cheap energy, and cheap food. You really don't want to spend extra money on a shirt, to keep jobs in this country? You really don't want to keep the sea level from rising 12 meters because you wont pay extra for fuel? You still want to eat beef, even though it costs the government about $20 per pound of your tax dollars to produce it? (Or you can buy it Imported and forward your cash to a South American government which burns down the rainforest so you can eat a Big 'n Tasty for $1.39)
Apparently there's a demand in this country for fake chain-operated YE OLDE TYME COUNTRY INNE style restaurants, pre-fabricated franchise owned Diners and quaint Main Street USA style outlet stores. Ok, well... Then why the hell are real diners and real pubs and independently-owned main street shops going out of business like there's an epidemic!?
Why are they so many god dammed fat people?
I think I am the only person I know, or that I have ever met who puts a(nother) sweater on when I'm cold, and doesn't crank the heat to 80 and then leave the house and forget it was on.
Am I the only person who's realized that a "six-figure salary" is far more than any normal human being needs, or deserves to be paid in a year? Or that, with 35 Million people in this country who need to worry about starving on any given night, that maybe our focus shouldn't be on celebrities retarded exploits? If our society is only as strong as our weakest members, how is America number one when thousands of people starve to death while thousands more die of obesity?
In an age when we don't need to ride around the Nation on horseback to tally votes, what is the point of the electoral college? And for that matter, in an age of mass-production ideology, where every point of view you hold has been forced upon you by someone else (including the notion that you're free to think for yourself), how can we expect democracy to work? Only 26% of the American (vote eligible population) voted for W. Bush in the 2000 election. He became president of the united states when about 50 Million of all 281 Million Americans voted for him.
Is there any good reason why profit is far more important than people in this country? Am I absolutely out of my mind when I get angry at people who complain that unions and fair trade are detrimental to a healthy economy? Is making sure that Americans (or the people we outsource American jobs to) can earn a fair living wage working reasonable hours in safe conditions really, really that difficult for you to agree to?
Why do we treat nature as an enemy? Nature will always exist, and it is far more powerful than anything we can do to try and control it. Should we keep plundering our environment simply because we're too stupid to stop applying stone age agriculture principles to industrialized food production? If the tools have changed so dramatically, why can't farming?
Just a reminder: There are cars that run on frialator grease, and get better performance than gasoline powered cars, using free food garbage.
Did you know that American copyright law is specifically designed to protect gigantic corporations from ordinary citizens? Actually, most law is these days. Unless you slip and fall walking into WalMart.
The police don't have any legal obligation to keep you safe. The police don't have any legal obligation to inform you of your rights unless you are being arrested, either. In fact, the police don't have any obligation to do anything except maintain the state monopoly on the use of force. At this point our government (or just about all governments) maintain control of their citizens not with laws, but with the threat of violence or death. That includes everything from shooting you for armed robbery to forcing you to work with the threat of poverty and starvation.
In any case, I think a Nation that's far more concerned with coupons, American Idol and cheap gasoline, over workers rights, democracy and progress needs to maybe work on its ideology a little bit.
Or at the very least, acknowledge that there is an issue, but its far to enormous and impossible to change, so we're all going to go back to watching "viral videos" and refusing to walk anywhere.
For example, no more Kraft Mac & Cheese. Either print Mac & Dairy Product Solids, Whey, Cheese Cultures and Disodium Phosphate or just label it as Mac & "Cheese".
Every night I go to bed more and more pissed off that I live in a country that values what is far more than what makes sense.
Americans demand convenience, even if that means sacrificing common sense and actual, proven convenience. Does your automatic toothbrush really make brushing your teeth any easier? If I didn't live in a state that devotes approximately nothing to public transportation, I would say my car is a complete waste of space. How about you?
And Americans demand low, low prices on the newest, coolest piece of shit, too. There's always going to be a new cellphone, or TV, or automobile or ergonomic desk chair with heated/chilled cup holders and a secret stow-away arm tray for holding your other useless electronic shit. So who cares? Why is keeping up with the trends, a fundamentally futile exercise, considered to be a normal, healthy pursuit by so many Americans?
The quest for cheap crap doesn't end there. Americans want cheap clothes, cheap furniture, cheap energy, and cheap food. You really don't want to spend extra money on a shirt, to keep jobs in this country? You really don't want to keep the sea level from rising 12 meters because you wont pay extra for fuel? You still want to eat beef, even though it costs the government about $20 per pound of your tax dollars to produce it? (Or you can buy it Imported and forward your cash to a South American government which burns down the rainforest so you can eat a Big 'n Tasty for $1.39)
Apparently there's a demand in this country for fake chain-operated YE OLDE TYME COUNTRY INNE style restaurants, pre-fabricated franchise owned Diners and quaint Main Street USA style outlet stores. Ok, well... Then why the hell are real diners and real pubs and independently-owned main street shops going out of business like there's an epidemic!?
Why are they so many god dammed fat people?
I think I am the only person I know, or that I have ever met who puts a(nother) sweater on when I'm cold, and doesn't crank the heat to 80 and then leave the house and forget it was on.
Am I the only person who's realized that a "six-figure salary" is far more than any normal human being needs, or deserves to be paid in a year? Or that, with 35 Million people in this country who need to worry about starving on any given night, that maybe our focus shouldn't be on celebrities retarded exploits? If our society is only as strong as our weakest members, how is America number one when thousands of people starve to death while thousands more die of obesity?
In an age when we don't need to ride around the Nation on horseback to tally votes, what is the point of the electoral college? And for that matter, in an age of mass-production ideology, where every point of view you hold has been forced upon you by someone else (including the notion that you're free to think for yourself), how can we expect democracy to work? Only 26% of the American (vote eligible population) voted for W. Bush in the 2000 election. He became president of the united states when about 50 Million of all 281 Million Americans voted for him.
Is there any good reason why profit is far more important than people in this country? Am I absolutely out of my mind when I get angry at people who complain that unions and fair trade are detrimental to a healthy economy? Is making sure that Americans (or the people we outsource American jobs to) can earn a fair living wage working reasonable hours in safe conditions really, really that difficult for you to agree to?
Why do we treat nature as an enemy? Nature will always exist, and it is far more powerful than anything we can do to try and control it. Should we keep plundering our environment simply because we're too stupid to stop applying stone age agriculture principles to industrialized food production? If the tools have changed so dramatically, why can't farming?
Just a reminder: There are cars that run on frialator grease, and get better performance than gasoline powered cars, using free food garbage.
Did you know that American copyright law is specifically designed to protect gigantic corporations from ordinary citizens? Actually, most law is these days. Unless you slip and fall walking into WalMart.
The police don't have any legal obligation to keep you safe. The police don't have any legal obligation to inform you of your rights unless you are being arrested, either. In fact, the police don't have any obligation to do anything except maintain the state monopoly on the use of force. At this point our government (or just about all governments) maintain control of their citizens not with laws, but with the threat of violence or death. That includes everything from shooting you for armed robbery to forcing you to work with the threat of poverty and starvation.
In any case, I think a Nation that's far more concerned with coupons, American Idol and cheap gasoline, over workers rights, democracy and progress needs to maybe work on its ideology a little bit.
Or at the very least, acknowledge that there is an issue, but its far to enormous and impossible to change, so we're all going to go back to watching "viral videos" and refusing to walk anywhere.