Thank you notes and Chicken McNuggets
After watching the second installment (actually the second hour) of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution on ABC last Friday, I finally reached rock-bottom on the John McEnroe “You can’t be serious scale.” I had always that “reality” TV shows like The Kardashians and Jersey Shore were populated by third-rate actors that preferred to act stupid in front of a TV camera than serve pancakes in a diner. After watching Jamie deal school administration officials and cooks in Huntington, West Virginia, I now realize that “being dumb” is no act and we: our parents, our institutions, the media and big-business are making it easier for this new generation of American to become “dumber.” It is time to wakeup.
It is hard to imagine that while many people are applauding the passage of Heathcare Reform, our kids our eating themselves to death in our schools and homes. Am I missing something here? Shouldn’t we be “fixing” the toxic waste our kids eat day rather than enable a healthcare system to pay for their excesses. Seems pretty straight-forward to me.
Which brings me to stationery and the thank you note. How can we expect people “write” or “use proper etiquette” when kids in school are only given a spoon to eat until the age of ten! No wonder “finger-food” is so prevalent, the poor kids don’t even know how to use a knife and fork. McNuggets are more more recognizable that chicken and our school kids can’t even identify ”real” vegetables. I guess this is the ultimate triumph of form over substance.