Interrelated problems
Here’s a list of tightly interconnected modern ills. Everytime I hear a news story about one of them, I think of the others. I rarely hear the news media, even NPR, making the connections. Americans seem to be trapped in a rut that’s taking the rest of the planet with it. Here’s a list of interrelated global problems that I believe are of great significance in the lives of Americans :
- Global warming and everything that comes with it
- High gas prices
- Obesity in the U.S.
- Heart disease in the U.S.
- The occupation of Iraq by the U.S.
- Instability in the Middle East
- Traffic fatalities (38,253 in 2004 according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
- Urban Sprawl
when i see those problems i immediately link factory farming, meat consumption and non-organic farming. i believe we’ve probably trained ourselves to see these topics in that light. it’s rather annoying to be honest. : ) but i feel keeping those things in a holistic perspective is my responsibility. fucking responsibility.
today at the gym there was a story on some news show on one of the tv’s about women with big asses and whether or not they liked their asses. next to it was an infomercial where someone was cooking a burger with some new contraption. next to that was footage from iraq. from well fed ass to iraq in a mere three tv’s! it was a perfectly logical linear progression for me. ( i was listening to judas priest at the time, unrelated but thought i’d throw it in.)
Comment by herbivore — August 1, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
I was at Walmart once (but only once I swear) standing in line at the pharmacy. In front of me, stacks and stacks of diabetes treatments. Behind me, stacks and stacks of bags of snacks–candies, chips, all kinds of
industrial wastejunk food. How convenient!I read this on a bathroom wall once, “You’re momma’s so fat, she’s got type II diabetes”.
Comment by snort — August 3, 2006 @ 7:01 am