Modern Living
So I was looking through some political cartoons during work today. Things are bad. And really fucked up.
Americans are getting more and more overweight, but fatty/unhealthy food is more and more overwhelmingly abundant.
The music industry, in their quest to "protect intellectual property" are suffocating the ability for people to really enjoy music without spending a fortune.
A fortune they don't have due to the state of the economy, or whatever is going on. I've been told the economy is getting better, but why are things getting worse?
Bush's attention is anywhere but where it should be. Iraq, the moon, mars, whatever. What about solving problems here first before taking on even more that we obviously can't handle?
Michael Moore's statements of a "society of fear" in Bowling for Columbine don't seem like much of a stretch anymore.
There was an article, in Time I believe, last month about how people (Americans probably) are living less and less well and contentedly regardless of our supposed "progress". Seriously though, I don't think we're heading in the right direction at all. We need to learn a new (or old) way of living, we need to focus on our own well being as people rather than trying to do all these crazy things as a nation and so on. Okay, good for patriotism, but we're forgetting the individual in all this, people aren't taking care of themselves. None of us are, really.