Wee Hours Rant on National Breakdown #1

It's all aimed at making us as bland and susceptable physically as entertainment and poor education make us mentally. If all you ever see are montages of products you'd like to buy, if every work of art is also a commercial, if this is the situation in which you were born and raised; you're not just open to suggestion you are helpless. In the same way, if all you ever eat are empty calories, if you just get the minimum nutrition you need to survive, the rest of turning into fat, diabetes, heart disease and cancer; viola! You are slow, weak AND sugestable! You are the perfect subject to a ruling class who control every last monetary, physical, mental and spiritual resource. Make the middle class fat and it will begin to sink and then once it realizes it is mentally, spiritually and physically empoverished it will be so weak, lazy and stupid it can never rise again.

Welcome to the last stage in human evolution...sediment!

Oh come on - you are talking as if you think there is a grand conspiracy by unscrupulous psychopaths and sadists who want total control over the rest of mindless society. Take heart - as long as our President is in charge and leading us in our noble war against this terror thing - I will go to sleep and rest easily. I do have a bit of concern that the drug companies seem to want to pathologize normal reactions to realistic life limitations including anxiety, depression, and frustration. I am also a bit unnerved that 70 percent of the prisoners in jail are drug addicts who lanquish between being morally depraved or are psychologically ill therefore should be treated for their illness- not ware housed and used in the service of scape goating. Aside from these and perhaps a hundred other gross contradictions I find little to be concerned about. Sweet dreams.

I wouldn't say that this is particularly a conspiracy. It's all about profits. For example, companies want their product to last longer, so they invent synthetic preservatives that fend off bacterial attack. No microbe is able to digest this chemical and so the food stays fresher, longer. Unfortunately, we can't digest this chemical either. It just stays in our system and never breaks down. The company only had their on interests in mind, and that mentality can severely affect the trusting consumer base. Haven't you noticed all the "natural" labels being added to brands like Doritos, and Cheetos, etc. That's because the surgeon general is about to make it mandatory for all products containing hydrogenated oils and trans fats to place a warning label on the package. That's pretty scary. I won't lose sleep over it, and all this talk has gotten me in the mood for a greasy snack, but it's something to be aware of.

From watching the show "How it's Made" I learned that soda pop cans are sprayed with shelack to prevent the acid in the soda's from eating through the can. I no longer buy or drink sodas.

"No microbe is able to digest this chemical and so the food stays fresher, longer. " I wouldn't bank on that. What is happening is we are getting microbes, weeds, and insects impervious to the chemicals and antibiotics. The microbes and insects adapt much faster than higher life forms because they go through so many generations so quickly. In the '60s the general thought was that the insects would eventually takeover once they became immune to everything and we had so polluted the earth that it was unfit for human habitation.