The Lowest Denominator

I wish there were some sort of rhetoric to make what I'm about to say sound like more than a hollow complaint, I really do. I just have such a problem with society at large.

Hold on, bear with me. I know more than some of you must have just almost hit the back button there, but hang in for a sec and think about this for me.

Everything we provide and create caters to the lowest denominator. Everything. From education to household appliances and technology to public laws/rules/regulations to what we put in our bodies to, sad as it is, modern literature and music.

The problem with catering to the lowest denominator like this is that society becomes factored by the lowest, most insignificant parts of us. Stupidity, ignorance, laziness, false comfort and hollow satiation, spiritual deficit and overall mindlessness; that's what's capitalized on and milked out of us by...get this: ourselves, our motivations/motivators, and our means of attaining contrived goals.

Here I am in America complaining, and America has the best of this compared to the rest of the world.

See, people who wonder why the world economy is sliding haven't looked deep enough into what exactly we're doing and what we've done. If you wonder why you had to pay $4.50 for a gallon of gas and contented yourself with the idea that some monopolizing asshole in the middle east upped the price just to milk money from the U.S., you're just trying to clear your conscience.

You paid $4.50 a gallon because you fucking had to. Because without your automobile running, your life as you know it stops, and you will pay whatever you have to to ignore your dependency. Yeah, our American corporations that we trust to run the economy upped their price too to keep their precious profit and that's why the price-per-gallon was $4.50, but that's not why we paid it.

Car companies being run into the ground isn't why you will have to pay extra money to the government for the rest of your life. You need those companies, you need them for your everday functioning life, and that's why you're gonna pay it till the day you and your children die. We all will willingly pay for our dependency and our laziness, and we will pay to keep our eyes closed.

We pay to be factored by the lowest denominator. We pay to be factored by the lowest denominator. And the price is astounding, while the products received are shoddy imitations of cultural achievement.We intentionally pay for that crap, and then we willingly pay for the negative repercussions rather than bother to haggle the price or renegotiate the deal.

I hope I didn't get too vague there.

But if that's not frustrating to some degree, you have too many cc's of complacency, friend.