Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Whats Wrong With This Country

I've been trying to pin down what exactly is wrong with this country. Is it our obsession with Oil? Is it our mis-understanding and therefor hatred of other cultures? Or is it our lack of responsibility when it comes to decision making when it come to our politicians or our local government? Ladies and gentlemen it is all of the above and more. I give you the following:






The mini-fucking ketchup bottle.

Personalized little pieces of glass that are filled with ketchup just for you! GREAT! How absolutely quaint. It really is cute, I was admiring them from afar looking to use one of them on my fries. Funny little aside, I used to be in the military and they used to, and maybe they still do, include little bottles of Tabasco with every MRE. Fan-fucking-tastic! Believe you me, when your out in the field, and it's cold and wet and you are hating life, remembering that you have a little bottle of heat and maybe some crackers to get you through, awesome! Anyway, where was I, oh yeah little bottles of evil. After I got my mini-me-sized bottle of Heinz I asked the waitress what they do with the empty bottles? Do they take them back and ship them back to Heinz central, like Budweiser does, wash them out and re-use those cute little fuckers? "Oh no, we just throw them away" as she points over to a barrel filled with these things.

You have got to be fucking kidding me! Not only is it a waste to throw away perfectly good bottles just waiting to be recycled, but the cost of packaging and the waste of fuel to transport these fuckers across the nation! The lack of efficiency and the absolute waste of resources that this must be to produce this crap just does not make sense in the long-view/world-view.

And I think, nay, I believe that this is why the world hates us. Because we are such fucking pretentious, narrow-minded, selfish prick bastards that we could give a fuck that if what we are doing now in regards to local and world energy and resources is going to have any impact on what happens to us or the rest of the world. We are just oblivious retards that we just move along single-person-to-a-car commute and have these little fucking cute bottles of evil and the world be damned. And that is exactley what we are doing. Damning ourselves and the world. Because we think we are entitled to do what ever the fuck we want to do.

We are like the person that wants to believe that we are doing something good by donating our old clothes, or giving money to our local shelter all the while consuming more than we can produce and importing what we can't.

We are headed for a very bad time my friends... And I am part of the cause.

We are such pretensious fucking assholes.