Keep Fiddling

Here's the thing.

As long as we hand over our thinking to the media bobbleheads, we have no reason to question why our nation is a big fat mess. If you only believe Rush Limbaugh, you're an idiot. If you only believe Truthout, you're an idiot. If you can't be bothered to try to find any opposition to your own opinion, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

It's pathetic, and it's another symptom of a society that is completely fat and lazy and has never had it this good. We see refugees and we go spend our money at Macy's for a 20% discount that will get donated to an African AIDS fund. We worry about our energy consumption and we buy pointless carbon offsets and flex fuel SUVs. We crow about our freedom as we invade sovereign nations. We buy bottled water while billions starve. We watch commercials for pharmaceuticals that our own citizens can't afford to buy. We groan under the weight of obesity while we subsidize the industries that promote it. We demand low prices because we have allowed our jobs to be outsourced and can no longer afford anything of quality. We frantically throw ourselves into debt to prove that we are not struggling. We pay for the privilege of being brainwashed into every purchase. We buy into being socially conscious by people who tell us that a $100 organic spa treatment is responsible.

Ugh. Come on, folks. Wake up.