HOW FAR WE'VE COME

I am not one to post political crap or even feign interest in the constant flow of excrement that spills from my TV, phone, etc... but the past couple days I've been stuck on this "where are we" and "how far have we come" couple of thoughts...

We are paying interest to banks to dwell in the buildings and homes that we built. We are paying interest to banks to drive the cars and trucks that we built.

We are being shown 60 second commercials advertising drugs that will kill us and that represent a 19:1 ratio (advertising : R&D) at the hands of Pharmaceutical companies while simple (but not profitable drugs like the Flu and Polio vaccines remain in short supply because they dont represent a massive profit margin).

We are tolerating a government that is so incredibly massive, that it has the staff, the funding, and the time to govern vegetation (marijuana, psychedelics) and restrict what grown human beings can and cannot do to or for themselves, while this same government advocates and even promotes the sale of controlled, chemical substances to the tune of prescriptions equaling 64 pills per day per every single American citizen.

We pay monthly subscriptions to watch a little box in our living room that tells us not what we need to know, but what we want to know (eg-not breakthroughs in science or exploration, but which red idiot said what to which blue idiot).

We pay to watch billionaires play a game on Sundays while our soldiers, police officers, firefighters and teachers are eligible for welfare.

We pay a percentage of our wages to an unknown pool that gets spent on who knows what, and then we pay more for the same year after year.

We cast a popularity contest to see which liar we should follow for the next four years.

We listen to millionaires puke insults on the radio about the color of each others skin, and we pretend that its okay.

Then, in all of this we pick sides rather than siding with one another and asking WTF? We all see these things and a million more like them... we all know it's wrong... but what will we do tomorrow? Same fucking thing because the rest of the flock hasn't shifted directions yet...