I witness items in the Boston Globe that do NOT look like news to me. I do not consider car crashes, fires, bizarre human conundrums to be news. Here was a monumental construction of human engenuity. And, a week later, another reader had a letter to the Editor, expressing the same emotion. But, I am dismayed to see that the current political scenary has dulled even these pundits of sobrity.
Advertising keeps America's economy up.
In this, American's economy is able to expend gargantuan amounts of energy in order to produce one-half of the world's trash so that its citizens can be odorless, overweight and unencumbered by thoughts which are too weighty to be reduced to slogans which can be read in less than twenty seconds. Everybody's too busy at their jobs to think longer than that. Yes, this is the mainstream American as I have come to know it. That I spent some ten thousand hours trying to rescue people from environmental pollution, job risks, and bathtub falls, just doesn't get much attention today. Perhaps I am feeling a bit sorry for myself.