This is pic touches on something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. No, not Miyazaki (though he is awesome and worthy of much awe and ponderance)
Its how all the worst shit in America is dirt cheap. I can buy 2 cheeseburgers, fries, a box of Little Debbies and wash it all down with a gallon of gasoline for 6 bucks. Which incidentally is the price for a gallon of petro in countries like England and Italy.
Jeff Garland, the chubby guy from Curb your Enthusiasm, has recently become health conscious because he wanted to be around to see his kids grow up. When asked about his new lifestyle he said that it is insanely inconvenient. And he has time and money! Imagine being poor and a mother of 3 who works some $10 dollar an hour job.
When I was a kid cigarettes were dirt cheap. $2 a pack. Now they are $10 in the big city. And you can’t smoke anywhere. Say what you want but you don’t find many 2 pack a day smokers anymore.
Lets face it. Most of us are convenience junkies. I don’t eat healthy, cuz Dammit! I don’t have time to land my flying car and get out. I’ve got terrible pointless shit to do… like blog picture of kittens on the net! And someday this is where the aliens will find us. Fat, alone and in some desolate wasteland littered with Dr. Pepper cans. Transfixed by some grainy hologram of some little thing that makes us smile or cry. or perhaps its porn… just something that makes us feel alive inside.
- Hookers or Cake
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