It is pretty sad that certain people rely on 900 telephone numbers for intimacy, friendship, conversation, and even as a confessional. Certain people spend their spare-time watching so-called Infomercials, even though they are little more than extra-long advertisements disguised as talk-shows. Mopeds are just what a sedentary, overweight, air-polluted society needs. It is pretty pathetic when certain people want to 'Ban War Toys' to allegedly discourage aggression in children, when those same kids could easily buy a real gun on the streets with their paper route money, or by dealing drugs. The so-called cause of Banning War Toys is even more ludicrous when we have such legitimate gripes as: exorbitant and exclusionary health-care and health insurance; the fact that there is no equitable graduated income-tax, where the rich pay more and the poor pay less (as it should be), etc. It is also a sad commentary when someone could get a drive-through marriage in Las Vegas, without any thought or previous planning, and then get a quickie divorce as soon as five minutes later.
Even more pathetic than the Wave, the New Age movement, or any of the above is the continued loyalty of many Americans to George Bush. Most, if not all of Bush's policies are as useless and pointless as those old-time 'Duck and Cover' drills. He assures us America's problems will just go away if we all pretend they don't exist and keep up our vigorous and cynical flag-waving. Perhaps we can start to end our Mediocrity Streak if we start by getting George Bush out of office. Twenty-nine years of mediocre leadership is more than enough.
[Originally published in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early 1990s and part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays]
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