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10/31/2004: "Judging America by our Television/Radio Commercials"

If you were from another country and spent one or two days watching television, here are the conclusions you would draw about the American people:


The men are all bald or balding
We all have arthritis
We are mostly all depressed and need to be medicated (including the kids)
We all --- everyone of us --- has terrible heartburn.
We all have high cholesterol and need medication.
We are, for the most part, impotent --- the men can't get it up --- the women don't give a damn.
We are all fat.
We take a pill for damn near everything and wouldn't have it any other way.

To this list we could add that we all have various "syndromes" and that we enjoy watching violence and sex on television. We are dumb as hell for the most part.

Well, whether or not any of this is true (and I suspect much of it is) this is what a non-American would think of us after watching our television for one or two days.

Perhaps we need to take a look at our society if this is in fact the way we are. But first, let's have a few pills.