When I’m driving down the highway at the speed limit I love being cut off by an I-have-a-small-penis-yet-large-salary Escalade laden with Life Is Good stickers. Then of course there’s the logo on Nalgene bottles (I’ll get to that at a later date), shirts, tire covers, and Spot’s matching leash and collar.
OK WE GET IT! Your life is good. Perhaps you have not been hit by the recession. Perhaps you are unaware of all the horrible things in the world. Perhaps you live under a rock.
Let’s be real – life is not exactly good. What are we dealing with in this lifetime? Putting aside homicide, suicide and genocide, I suppose you could argue the tradition of fratricide sadly died out (excuse the pun). World hunger, a recession, and Starbucks are just three things that seem to disagree with your bumper sticker, Harry “I-Bought-This-For-HOV” Hybrid.
Harry Hybrid says "thanks!"
Anyone who is going around advertising how great their life is should be shot. Who likes happy people? Nobody. Prepare yourself, I am about to make a gross (yet true) generalization about western culture: NOBODY IS HAPPY. Maybe if PC vs Mac took it down a notch, internet was free, and a new iPod didn’t come out the second you bought yours… but that’s just not the case. There are many things to be unhappy or at least unsettled with… turn on the TV and see for yourself. Note: you may have to ask your cable/satellite provider what channel MTV is on.
NV/R,
Maria
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The happiest year on record for the United States was 1957…it all went downhill later…
I think a lot of the gross unhappiness of the country has to do with the blitzkrieg media () broadcasting nothing but bad news or putting negative spin on positive events (although no news is good news, right?). Granted, a lot of things that happen in the world are bad (i.e. genocide, famine, death, taxes), but news stations don’t look at good events because they don’t make headlines and don’t boost ratings. Sure, it’s important to know about a lot of the bad news, but it would be nice to see some good news, too. We can also blame commercials and rampant consumerism for a lot of unhappiness, too. Every moment ads tell us to buy stuff, and a lot of people act on those ads. Apparently, a lot of people forgot that “money doesn’t buy happiness.”
And we have to remember, too: life is quite good as opposed to death.
http://myfeveredramblings.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/weve-always-been-at-war-with-eastasia-or-televisions-most-annoying-things-part-2/
Regarding the nature of the blitzkrieg media.