Day 1

I watched the documentary Sicko, by Michael Moore, for the first time at 3 a.m. this morning. It's appropriately titled because I literally felt sick to my stomach after I watched it. The issues discussed by Michael Moore, such as the price of health care and education in this country, are yet another reason why I continue to gain resentment towards the ethics, or lack thereof, practiced in this country. Is the strength of a country attained by the intellect and health of it's people or by the insane wealth of a few men? I would think that in the long run it would be the intellect and health of the masses. Then again what sort of strength am I talking about? I don't think intelligent healthy people are interested in world domination so that doesn't help those few insanely rich men out... plus they wouldn't be insanely rich if they weren't enslaving the masses by putting them deeper into debt due to insanely pricey health care and tuition.

We're ranked 37 in the world for health care (France #1 and Italy #2) What the fuck?!?
Fuck Nixon for contributing to the corruption of this nation... I wish there were more folks like Hillary in office fighting for universal health care. Who knows when this will happen though. Perhaps never, as there are too many lies and plenty of manipulated American citizens to keep us at 37.

Enough of this rant... But! If you haven't seen Sicko you should check it out.

Here is my 1st of daily posts:



So is an industrial organic food chain finally a contradiction in terms? It's hard to escape the conclusion that it is. Of course it is possible to live with contradictions, at least for a time, and sometimes it is necessary or worthwhile. But we ought at least face up to the cost of our compromises. The inspiration for organic was to find a way to feed ourselves more in keeping with the logic of nature, to build a food system that looked more like an ecosystem that would draw it's fertility and energy from the sun. To Feed ourselves otherwise "unsustainable," a word that's been so abused we're apt to forget what it very specifically means: Sooner or later it must collapse. To a remarkable extent, farmers succeeded in creating the new food chain on their farms; the trouble began when they encountered the expectations of the supermarket. As in so many other realms, natures logic has proven no match for the logic of capitalism, one in which cheap energy has always been a given. And so, today, the organic food industry finds itself in a most unexpected, uncomfortable, and, yes, unsustainable position: floating on a sinking sea of petroleum.

The Omnivore's Dilemma (page 183-184)