why everything sucks

artificial ingredients

Red 40, Blue 15
Hormone injections and

Too much supply?
"it will look good on my resume"

artificial ingredients

I was looking at my mom's old General Electric egg-beater the other day. The thing is at least 30 years old, but still works exactly as it's supposed to. It seems as the decades rolled by, there was no progress, but a regression. Today, we have more things with less substance. Nothing is built to last--electronics, [American] cars, relationships--there are virtually no things in this world that are genuine anymore.

Ever hear the phrase "it will look good on my resume"? Yes, you have. It's a way to manufacture our resume so that it appears good to some future, unknown employer (who apparently is too obtuse to see that this purported genuine interest is not some false desire to please him).

Obama's latest "Cash for Clunkers" is yet another way to artificially manufacture something--in this case, by artificially creating a market for cars people don't actually need or want, but will buy because of the incentives. Manufactured. Not real, and thus it won't last.

Nothing without passion will last very long. If there's no heart behind it, no genuine, legitimate interest in the thing itself, you cannot expect that thing to last