2003-12-22 - 3:04 a.m.
Because this is the information superhighway, I should do facts. The averageAmerican works 49 hours a week and this doesn't include driving time or time spent outside of work with continuing education. Rome had 179 festival days. So what the hell are we doing? Coffee. The egonomic system has taken advantage of our biology. We were born premature and had to be fed and then burped. We tried to please our parents and are still trying to please people. Our identity must be appealing so that we can be loved or just not abandoned. we buy cars with names that announce our potency and genetic worth with names like Intrepid and Explorer. "DOn't leave me momma, I'm going to continue to look for a food source when you become sore."
If there was not an illusion of lack, then it would be easier to expand into higher moral spheres by avoiding the inevitable cultivation of greed, jeolousy, and avarice through the current economic system. Avarice could be good if it is wela and wealth or rice in the older, uncorrupted sense of mental richness. Currently, one of the only times a possession is bad is when it involves spirits. The initiate does some community service and then the community and the individual are "even." There is always this urgency of trying to be even, being owed. Because we know that we will be reduced to dust, we want to see this process valued with coins. A good way to wipe out a society is to encourage the use of plastic instead of metal coins as metal is a substance that limits the growth rates of microorganisms.
If the taste buds were forced by the hands with bad mixed vegetables on Thursday and by Friday, there is a deadline. A critical frontal lobe pathway closes prematurely, then the brain is forever locked into lack or just a finally negative experience. All within ear shot or gun shot are subject to that experience despite keeping up with the expiration dates and not ruining their taste buds with Mad Dog 20/20 or hot Starbucks coffee.
What happened to leisure? There is this attitude that if a person is not working full time that they are lazy. Is to be lazy also to not be anxious? Machines were supposed to give people more leisure time and they have done the opposite. There are functional machines lying in a dumpster right outside of my complex. I found a GE toaster yesterday that works just fine but it is harvest gold and we all know that harvest gold is no longer en vogue. The GE stands for Geriatric Enema and Global Effect.
I almost bought a Plasma TV to save a little of my space, but instead was given a non stick pan for Christmas. Thank you, anonymous giver of things.
