Shallow Americans

When I think of my youth and the depth of my thinking compared to my peers who were into sports, girls and cars, it's not difficult to see the result of them growing into shallow old men and women.

You might, being among the shallow, ask me for proof of that.

Alright. Let me start with the billions that Americans spend on sports and other entertainment. At the same time, the poor and lower middle classes complain that rather than giving money to them our government throws our money all around the rest of the world.

And what would the poor spend the money on? Video games? Concerts? Football?

Do you need more evidence? How about the shallow folks we run as political candidates to represent us to the rest of the world as the faces of America? Seriously, Biden vs Trump? Can we really take ourselves seriously?

Still more evidence? Okay, we let "Rig Economy" companies like Lyft, Uber, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon, manipulate the hell out of us. They distract us all day long, then offer us driverless cars that nobody wants.

Then we Americans pretend real viruses don't exist. We look to totalitarian leadership that's manipulated by Russia and China, and making America more like their own messy places. We buy the latter's goods so that they can make hypersonic missiles that they point at all the Chinese goods we just bought. I suppose that's a type of planned obsolescence.

I see all that evidence as a logical result of our shallow childhoods. We've come a long ways from a real Santa Claus and Easterbunny, or maybe not. ;-)