Ahhhhh....the richness of black, Columbian style coffee. The aroma of it waltzes through the dimly lit kitchen area and reminds the lone occupant that it is once again time to go about the daily business of living.
At the flip of a switch, the radio on the dining room table begins to spout the latest news in finance, foreign relations, and crimes against humanity (which all seem tied together). The typical newscast sounds something like this: "Today in a far off land, two men belonging to an extremist religious group funded by a terrorist organization that may someday be discovered to be tied to members of your own government, disguised themselves as well-meaning police officers, entered a crowded house of worship and promptly detonated the explosive vests they wore, killing an alarming number of men, women, and children for reasons you will never understand. Members of many governments denounced the action and called for peace talks, but naturally, nobody's interested. In other news, blah blah blah devastating floods, blah blah dirty former Enron executives, blah blah in the stock market today...."
A great deal of effort is put forth to pre-digest news of the atrocities committed in the name of progress and prosperity so that it may be funneled to the masses. Pipelines carrying the sewage and savagery of the world are fitted directly into your mind and come in the form of radio, television, newspapers, books, and the internet. And what are you to do with this information once you have it? People like me set time aside at some point in the day to absorb this data, yet I for one have thus far failed to produce anything useful with it, let alone remembered all of it.
Perhaps if everything I knew of and thought about were strung together in random fashion, it might produce something with entertainment value. Hey, it worked to George Carlin.
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