I am sick and tired of corporate America and their relentless pursuit of the "Almighty Dollar" at the expense of just about everything that I care about. There is something so insidious lurking on our horizon that I shudder to think about the state of this world in 50 years. We are being baited into focusing our attention on the war in Iraq, the political scene, high crime rates and the deplorable state of the health of so many people, not to mention the economic downturn that is inevitably in our very near future.
We are being frightened into submission by the news media that so gleefully reports every shocking and tragic incident they can parade out in front of the American people every evening at 6 and 11. I am disgusted with the garbage that is on television and I am talking about the advertising, not the programming, which is another category all by itself. What we should really fear is quietly spreading like a viral video on the Internet and it would be my guess that 90% of our population is completely oblivious to what is happening.
It is my firm belief that the world that my granddaughter, who is almost 6, will live to see is going to be that bleak, devastated wasteland that is so often portrayed in apocalyptic visions of science fiction writers. That is a very scary world to think our children and grandchildren will inherit and it breaks my heart to think that in my lifetime the destruction was happening and nothing was done to stop it. Now I am not sure that there is any way to reverse the damage that has been done.
There are so many things that just make me furious that I need to stop typing here before I blow a gasket. I am going to go out today and see if there is anything I can do that won't destroy the planet in 50 years.
Later.
