THE TRULY AMAZING UNITED STATES: FROM TOO BIG TO TOO SMALL TO TOO WASTEFUL AND TOO TOXIC

Source: thinkprogress.org.

By Gundhramns Hammer

December 24, 2014

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The United States is a land of incredible contrasts. Environmentally, biologically, chemically, sociologically, anthropologically, ideologically, economically, geographically and biogeographically, the contrasts can be like day and night.

It is an amazing land (Video 1)!

 Video 1. The beauty of Yosemite National Park in California (USA).

 

And the contrasts can go from too big to too small to too wasteful and too toxic. 

Biologically speaking, as far as the human sphere is concerned, some men have a hard time dealing with their snake package and would be the damn envy of any high prized longhorn bull in Texas whereas other guys would be the joke of the roosters in any chicken coop in Alabama (Videos 2-3).

Video 2. The envy of all men: The biggest balls in the world.

Video 3. Penned human cattle: The 1st annual small penis contest.

Women are surprising too.

There are some American women who carry around gigantic artificial mammary glands whereas other girls are small or flat-chested, a condition that may pushed them to become the daily bread of plastic surgeons or a good economic boost for the bra industry (Videos 4-5). 

Video 4. Of  megaknockers & plastic surgery: Biggest mammary glands.

 Video 5. They´re OK but don´t feel OK: How to deal being a flat-chested girl.

There is also the weight contrast in the USA.

In this wonderful land full of wonders of all kinds, some of which are being pushed out of extinction and falling under the mall and urbanisation fever under way, you can find a wide variety of human chunks of walking meat (Video 6).

Video 6. Big pig time.

Let us move on.

We can take food as another example in terms of sociology and economics.

More food is being produced in the United States now than ever before. But more food is being wasted at the same time. 

It is ironic. 

Some people have too much to eat and are prone to or do not give a fuck about squandering food whereas others have not got much food and have a fucking time surviving.

Living becomes an odyssey for these poor people. 

Making ends meet at the end of the month is an ordeal because of low paying jobs which puts poor people under so much pressure that some folks go crazy or do crazy things to get out of the situation.

Other poor people who have lost their jobs become scavengers of the trash cans to fill up their bellies on a daily basis. 

This poverty problem has become so huge that in some parts of the United States being homeless is now consider a crime, according to some reports (Video 7).

 Video 7. Homeless: Being poor is a crime in the United States.

Some of these poor folks rely on food stamps, charity organisations or generous people to get by daily.

For those who swim in abundance, there is way too much to eat and one one stomach, so food waste becomes a normal thing in their zombie lives.

Because of this, municipal landfills are having a fucking hard time coping with the over 30 million tonnes of food that are thrown away in the United States alone each year (Video 8).

Video 8. Tossed out: Food waste in America. Uploaded by Harvest Public Media.

On the opposite end, we have those folks who have said fuck to a "civilised life", a life slaving away to pay eternal debts, chupacabra job stress, tough peer competition and ridiculous social chamaeleonage and other aspects when a human supposed to have been born free ends up voluntarily or not on the rat race chasing the fucking Matrix economic pod. 

These brave folks, or crazy from the economic point of view of the global chupacabras sucking people´s blood, have abandoned the cities and headed south to a warmer climate where they have found a place to set up a humble camp in the bush or the middle of the Arizona desert (Video 9). In a land overflowing with food and crap, these bugging out folks have turned to living off other people´s waste or on road killed animals without any problems whatsoever. 

 Video 9. Man bugging out in the Arizona Desert. Uploaded by Mark Allen Channel.

Now, let us briefly examine another contrast in the USA.

Regarding the chemical aspect, there is a curious investigation on people´s toxic load.

A recent study (Tyrrell et al., 2013) has found that rich people have different toxins accumulated in their bodies than poor people. 

Rich people have higher levels of heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, cesium and thallium because they have wads of money to spend on shellfish or fancy fish dishes like radioactive sushi. 

Since rich people also like to tan to make the social point in society that they belong to the leisure class, they also have a higher toxic load of benzophenone-3 (oxybenzone), a chemical found in sunscreens.

Poor people, on the other hand, have higher levels of lead and cadmium due to their smoking habits to contain their nerves to keep somewhat sane in their Matrix pod. 

They also have a blood stream rich in bisphenol A [4,4'-(propane-2,2-diyl)diphenol], a chemical found in the lining of cans and food containers (Table 1, Video 10).


 Table 1. Toxic loads of rich and poor adult people in the USA. Based on Tyrrell et al. (2013).

Pollutants	Levels of toxic load
	Rich people	Poor people
Arsenic	Higher	Lower
Bisphenol A	Lower	Higher
Benzophenone-3 (oxybenzone)	Higher	Lower
Cadmium	Lower	Higher
Cesium	Higher	lower
Lead	Lower	Higher
Mercury	Higher	Lower
Mono(carboxyoctyl)phthalate	Higher	Lower
Perfluoroctanoic acid	Higher	Lower
Perfluorononanoic acid	higher	Lower
Thallium	Higher	Lower

Video 10. Rich people have different toxins in their bodies.

So much for a "healthy" diet on fish and shellfish!


Conclusion

Rich are fucked. Poor are fucked. We´re all fucked (Fig.1), mon ami.

Figure 1. Democracy & progress: Toxic waste sites in the United States. Source: Bullard et al. (2007).

But, mon Capitaine, they call this a democracy and progress, don´t they?

Oui, mon ami! 

Fuck!

Mon Capitaine, no matter what, humans are already eating shit. Everywhere!

Oui, mon ami! We´re fucked!
 
The whole world is imitating America´s mess
 
We human have made a mess out of this beautiful planet. It is a fact.

To change our present course, running straight towards the precipice, we all have to pitch in, one way or another. Definitely.  

How? Consuming less crap, for instance. 

We need new paradigms, above all.

This is our most urgent task.

We need sensible new paradigms to come forth to pull us out of this mess - a mess that is getting bigger and more toxic with each passing day as the whole world is imitating the United States mess and not what many Americans stand for: Their love of freedom.

Since the United States is in many respects still the leader, we believe there is a good oportunity for this happening here due to the high innovation, ideal flexibility and social plasticity.

So, wake up, Americans! Don´t fall asleep! You have an important call with destiny!

The whole world is watching you! God bless America!

All in all, this may happen in this country or any other around the world as long as other serious alternatives are searched for including the social ones. 

They must be totally different from the actual philosophy: More technology to patch up messy technology.

More technology which chances are will complicate the next technology and the next and all of the former tecnhologies until there is so much damn technology that the whole fucking technology building may come down crumbling under its own weight of too much fucking technology one day. 

The stars are still too far away and the day to get far away is still far away and by that time we may all be gone because we got too carried away chasing the fucking crazy toxic Matrix pod every which way.

As the American poet and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once said: "Simplify, simplify!"

This is one most important key that most people chasing the Matrix pod do not want to pay attention to and face up to in a planet of limited resources, for humans are falling bewitched like dead flies everywhere under the fancy technology spell bound to an ever pervasive high profit smell.

At what cost? 

Messing up the whole world.



See you later alligators! 

Source: Jessica´s Health Blog.

References

Bullard R.D., Mohai P., Saha R. & Wright B. (2007). Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty 1987-2007. A Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries. United Church of Christ, Cleveland, OH, USA. 160 p.

Tyrrell J., Melzer D., Henley W., Galloway T.S. & Osborne N.J. (2013). Associations between socioeconomic status and environmental toxicant concentrations in adults in the USA. Environ. Int., 59: 328-335.