Ramblings

This country is crazy for pills. We also seem to have a lot of outbreaks of diseases. Think there’s a connection?
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American TV is just as bad, if not worse, than Mexican TV. In fact, there are a lot of copycat programs on right now. I don’t know if they started in Mexico or the States. Either way, they suck.
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I saw a commercial this morning that showed people in situations where they had to make a choice between two activities – do you do one thing or the other. The commercial was for a bank’s financial services, basically saying that if you make the right decisions, you’ll be ok. Which is all good and fine. But what seemed particularly American to me was one shot which showed a guy looking out at his back yard, trying to choose between raking the few leaves that littered his lawn and relaxing in his hammock. The implication was that the “right” thing to do was to rake the yard, to do the work. In Mexico the clear choice would be to relax in the hammock. Not out of laziness, but out of a feeling that you need to enjoy life while you can. And at this point, I agree.