Signs of the Apocalypse
Aug. 22nd, 2006 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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When I was learning to speak French in High School, I laughed at the silly French for their habit of drinking bottled water. I'd pay fifty cents for a bottle of pop, but who would pay for a bottle of plain old WATER?
We all know what happend in the years since.
Now, though, the grocery store is selling little envelopes of flavoring, sugar, food coloring, and caffeine. So that you can make your bottled water back into pop. So that, instead of buying a bottle of pop in the first place, you can pay the same amount for a bottle of plain water and the same amount again for the stuff you'd get for free in the pop.
It is a sign of the apocalypse. Kurt Vonnegut is right; surely, the species is too stupid to survive.
We all know what happend in the years since.
Now, though, the grocery store is selling little envelopes of flavoring, sugar, food coloring, and caffeine. So that you can make your bottled water back into pop. So that, instead of buying a bottle of pop in the first place, you can pay the same amount for a bottle of plain water and the same amount again for the stuff you'd get for free in the pop.
It is a sign of the apocalypse. Kurt Vonnegut is right; surely, the species is too stupid to survive.
