Taking Responsibility
There is a good chance smoking cigarettes will kill you. You may also die from any number of cancers whether you smoke or not. Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle may take a few years from your life, and contribute to your lack of good health. How many times do people have to hear this before taking it seriously?
Vice, especially nasty little things we can do legally, is a fact of human nature, and will never be stopped. Some of the more ungodly vices, prostitution for example, will not be stopped either. Feel good things. whether food, drink or sex will never be eradicated in spite of all the rants and raves of the do-gooders.
Americans have gone from a freewill society, i.e you are responsible for your actions, to fatalists, blame it on someone else, whimpering, pathetic chumps. Over the last 40 years we have become dependents of media hype. We are conditioned to accept the whims and vagaries of mag writers and rapacious corporate media who need to sell the latest fashion.
The irony of all this is, the big guys use every vice known to man to sell us things we don’t need. Sex, lies and high-def video keep us fat, smoking, and generally unhealthy in body and mind. Granted, to sin and eat the forbidden fruit is to be human. It’s just so damned easy to exploit even a cynic like me. And that is what is scary about America today.
