Idiot Generations

If we watch television, and who does not, we know that bad food habit and mismanagement of personal finance are two of the major evil of our North American world. It is safe to say that infomercials, particularly the late night kind, are the mid-tech con games of our time. It is easy to see that the religious infomercials are after money and not souls. The rest is either about making money or making, eating, or not eating food. Even in major news programs, the financial crisis and increasing obesity of our society occupy vast portion of the time slot. We are told that this present world wide financial crisis happens because devious bankers lent money to us, a bunch of mortgage-delinquent idiots. We are also told that we, the same bunch of idiots, and our children are duped by devious food manufacturers to buy over processed, over packaged, and over priced food that not only contain next to no nutrition but make us obscenely fat, give us all kinds of deceases, and eventually kill us well before our life expectancy. After being thoroughly frightened and worried, we cannot sleep and look for help in late night infomercials. The success of the informercials testify to this sad state of affair. No one though ask why this is the case? We are on average more educated than people from any previous generations. Yet, we know nothing about the two most important things to our survival in our world. We do not know the basis of our bank accounts, mortgages, and credit accounts not to mention stocks, commodities and all their derivatives. It is not better when it comes to food—all we do is look at a colourful plastic box and go “yummy.” How do we come to this? We learnt how to read, write, calculate, sciences, history and all the other things in school but nothing about managing our own lives. How is it possible? Is it because our school is there not prepare us for life but to prepare us for work. We learnt the skills to work but we do not learnt what to do with the rewards of our work. In the end, even the best of us become nothing but highly skilled idiots working hard, eating badly, worring all the time, watching infomercials and being blamed and pitied for causing the evils of our world. Oh, isn't that cubic zirconium ring just as lovely as can be?