Dumbfounded
This is apparently nothing new, but then again, I don’t hang around Wal-Mart or Exxon.
While traveling to see my daughter this weekend, I was forced to do the unthinkable. Well, not forced, but my poor planning left me with few choices. I had to purchase gas at Wal-Mart.
Cries of astonishment and displeasure from the crowd….food thrown at my website….
So I pull up to the pump, get out of the car (the photo isn’t me, by the way) and go through the motions of filling the tank with the precious, blood soaked substance. My eyes drift upward and shazam! there’s a TELEVISION. A real tee-vee blaring newsentertainment mush-mush and nothingness. And at Wal-Mart. Gas, Wal-Mart and television have come together in a single, unholy trinity.
Fill your car with gas and then fill your mind with soundbites and crap. The purpose is to keep citizens constantly consuming and constantly in the front of the propaganda window. Tends to keep your mind off what’s really going on in the world. An idle mind might just begin to think, and if people begin to think, well, the whole thing might fall apart.
It’s not just at gas pumps, either. At the doctor’s office, in elevators, airports, restaurants and bars. There are numerous models for your car so you can talk on the phone and watch tee-vee while driving.
And don’t forget about the cameras watching you while you’re watching the tee-vee.
Surely this is a sing that the end is near, but there is a solution….
No shit? TV at the gas pump? Have we really fallen that far? This country is headed down hill so fast…