First of all….I hate television. I can’t think of anything productive from even owning one and when I use my own I am aware that I’ve essentially lost a small battle in the constant war against becoming more stereo typically American. I admit that while traveling abroad I have been embarrassed to appear too “American” to the natives in whatever place I visited. I’m not ashamed of my country as a whole, our world leaders, or our history……I am ashamed of our people. With each passing year we are getting fatter, lazier, and incredibly dumber. I don’t know what came first the chicken (in this case the dumbing down of our nation) or the egg (the increasingly widening asses of my fellow Americans).
Does it matter which came first if they both suck?
Either way I think they go hand in hand. The dumber we allow ourselves to become, either by spending 100x more on defense than education or replacing things like learning with American Idol, simply wreaks havoc on our quality of life by forcing us to depend solely on a handful of practitioners to make every important decision about our bodies. The next time one of my elders tells me “I was just fine until I went to the doctor”, I am going to poke my temple with a fire poker. Yes, we are that fucking stupid that we allow this to happen to ourselves and simply expect the medications to fix it to not only be affordable but provided at no cost to us as consumers. This stupidity contributes to the expansion of our hind sides and general decline in health which forces most of our sub-human com-padres to solely sit on their asses and turn on the idiot box or some other form of life wasting activity.
As for the egg in the scenario, it isn’t innocent by any stretch. I’ll admit that it is very entertaining, however many of us watch it while doing things that are simply terrible for our health and well-being. It is all too common for us to shove food in our faces while sitting on our asses and watching television. Something should click at one point that this activity just isn’t healthy. The more time we sit in front of the shit box the worse we get. Not only is it addicting, watchers get more out of shape and less likely to actually get up and move.
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