Thursday, May 6, 2010

Caffeine Rules

I just read how an Arizona police force got a tip about illegal aliens in a house and mounted a full scale swat team attack.
In making the following remarks, I realize that there will be those who say I diminish the dangers faced by everyone in Arizona (and particularly along the border) by the drug wars in Mexico and the threats to life and property all citizens in those areas face.
But attaching a residence because people are inside?
What's the rush?
Set up a "human blockade". Surround the place, hire some of the unemployed and feed them round the clock to keep vigilant until whatever is in the house starves or gives up. Wow!
What has happened to us that we "attack", "attack", "attack".
Why not "think"?
I have a feeling its because our nation is ramped up on caffeine.
Anytime a TV commercial can advocate drinking something that will make you feel wide awake at 4 a.m. after having driven a race car from 130 -5:30 p.m in a 500 mile race and not have people realized you are selling a mind alerting drug is beyond me.
A cup of coffee has enough caffeine to wake most people up. There are now people who need a Double-Shot just to get started.
It isn't just me who has to really make an effort to keep up with a TV program? Is it because those who are still "sober" can't keep up with the "juiced-up entertainment" being offered so don't?
In fact, Caffeine may be at the root of almost every man-made catastrophe of the past decade. People are more hyped up on attacking the next moment rather than "reflecting and planning ahead" (think 9/11); others spend hours on line trading stocks rather than hours in research making informed decisions (read stock market collapse); "experts" don't test for results rather just put\something in place that has so many built in redundancies that it should work but doesn't (read the Toyota recall or Deepwater Horizon) while those in control of the media rush to make-up news about all of the above (read all 24 new hour stations).
Here is a thought--
Mind altering drugs in this country have been illegal for just over 100 years. Not Caffeine.
Read 1984.


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