Yesterday at the checkout line at my local Safeway I saw a young boy handling a large bottle of "Unsweetened Tea". As his Dad behind him unloaded a few more items from the cart I thought to myself, have we really become so consumed with distractions of all sorts that we can't find the time to make iced tea from a few bags of tea and some boiled water. Again this wasn't some weird concoction marketers created when we all became bored with plain old iced tea. There were no exotic fruits infused. Not even any sugar. Give me a break here!
There really is no hope for the future if Americans can't make there own iced from scratch. Never mind our failures with the education system. Where will that young person on line find motivation to push himself through engineering school someday if he doesn't learn how to make goddam ice tea from scratch.
I guess the lesson is: Hey son, if you want to make enough money to have all the good things in life (like a glass of ice tea) then you better get in your room and play some video games to get ready for the future. And if you want to have a glass of iced tea while you're paying off all your student loans I'm sure there's a Youtube video to show you how.
American Exceptionalism is now American Patheticism
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment