I’m Not Freaking Out.

Ebola

I know that there are many things out there that we should be really damn concerned about… like the environment. Sure, there are plenty of brainwashed, unqualified idiots out there that don’t think there’s such a thing as ‘climate change’… or if they think there is, then they don’t think that man plays any role in it… But when NASA says they’ve surveyed thousands of scientists at hundreds of scientific organizations around the world, and 97% of them agree that climate change is real and man has had an impact on that, then it’s probably time to stop listening to the morons and become concerned about it.

And what about the flu? Holy shit, the flu kills between 23,000 and 36,000 people per year. Damn. That’s scary. I thought people just generally got ‘the squirts’ for a few days and that was it. But no… apparently tens of thousands of people reach the threshold of ass-squirting every year, and then run out of juice. So we should be worried about this.

I should also probably be concerned about the obesity epidemic that runs rampant throughout the United States. Two out of three adults in the US are considered to be overweight in this day and age, with one out of three being in the ‘obese’ category. The range of health issues that stem from this is staggering, from diabetes and heart disease to cancer. Are we addressing this at all on a national level? Hell no! We just continue to feed the swamp inside our bellies with total shit food and then top it off with a few pills to mask the pain from the damage we’ve done. And if your ass isn’t big enough… guess what? We can give you an artificial ass! Ass implants! Are you f**king kidding me? The fact is… In the US, we don’t fix problems that kill people when there’s money to be made. So I should probably be concerned about this.

Maybe I should be concerned about the mid-term elections. We have two parties that are sodomizing our country (at differing degrees, to be fair… but it’s all the ‘unwelcome’ form of sodomy). Both parties are only looking out for special interest groups, not us. They’ve effectively managed to both convince us that they suck miserably (with approval ratings hovering in the 15-16% range), and at the same time convince us to fight feverishly for them on social media outlets across the land. HOW F**KING STUPID ARE WE TO KEEP VOTING FOR THEM? One party wants to invade and occupy every country that looks sideways at us, put a fundamentalist theocracy in place, use a completely unregulated scorched-earth free market to drive the economy no matter what the cost, and police the bedrooms of the citizens of the country… The other party wants to offer great ideas without any viable means of attaining them, allow flagrant abuse to social systems and dismiss it as ‘part of the deal’, and offer the thought that a conversation filled with love will fix every problem when sometimes people just need their ass kicked. Both parties screw us with the banking system. Both parties screw us with corporate welfare. Both parties are sodomizing us. One more than the other? Sure. But it doesn’t matter. We’ll re-elect them. And we’ll argue about how awesome they are. Our country is fine, though. It’s making progress in spite of our politicians. But we should be concerned about our political system.

But at the end of the day, I find myself being way too concerned about the wrong thing. I found myself pushing a massive cart through Sam’s Club yesterday, getting my Ebola Apocalypse gear together. I knew it was stupid. I knew it was crazy. I knew I’d bought into the fear that the media sells because the really important shit isn’t interesting enough to sell advertising space. But there I was… with my 25 lb. bags of rice and beans, countless cans of veggies and fruit, large tubs of peanut butter… All I could think of was how shitty the cuisine would be during the fall of civilization. I was pissed that the media managed to rope me in. I still am. It’s insane.

We have no depth of vision in this country anymore. The media has robbed us of that, and unfortunately we turned out to be a great market for zero long-term thinking. All we need is the constant scared panic of impending doom mixed in with a ‘get rich quick, money is all that matters’ flavor in our pop-culture, and PRESTO! Ad space is being sold. There’s nothing more sad about our country than the simple fact that this bullshit is so effective.

F**k you, soulless corporate media. I’ll be out back in the bunker if you need me.

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