We're Officially The Worst of the Best

I know, that's not exactly the most optimistic title for a blog post in the world, but right now I really don't care--I'm angry.

Go ahead, ask me what I'm angry about!  I dare ya!

The medical and technological advancements that've been made in the last year are astounding.  Add those in with those made in the last five, ten, twenty, fifty, and 100 years, and forget it, we've lapped centuries in terms of rate of development.  Some of the brightest minds that have ever lived would KILL to see what we've done with the theories, formulas, and ideas they came up with back in the 1500s, and even the late 1800s/early 1900s.  Heck, I'm sure the inventor of the computer's head would be spinning if he knew that we've now made it smaller than pocket-sized!

.....but yet, we've used these advancements to make products that kill people.  The worst uses of the best minds possible.

No, I'm not talking about guns.  I'm talking about products we see and/or use every day.  BPA-laden plastics, which are known carcinogens; artificial sweeteners, which are loaded with false promises of cheated health and have devastating effects on the body; methods of transportation that use more fuel and create more noxious gasses in one day than we should be exposed to in a lifetime; ways to genetically modify our food to make it more easy to reproduce and simultaneously deplete its nutritional content.

It makes me sick knowing what we, as humans, have done to this world.  Life may be easier to live, but is it really?  How many of you microwave food in plastic containers?  Surprise, you may be diagnosed with cancer in a few years.  Oh, and if you were heating up vegetables in that container, they've been officially zapped of all their nutritional value due to the high heat.  Think that apple you just ate will keep the doctor away?  It's only got 25% of the nutritional value it would have had 50 years ago, thanks to the scientists who figured out how to mass-produce them.

It's "thinks" like this that make me want to move to the middle of nowhere, where life has not been touched by science or technology.  The world is clearly moving too quickly for our own good; people are not being properly educated about all the "latest and greatest" advancements and God knows we're not going to look for any danger ourselves--we're gonna wait until someone else points it out for us and then ignore them, dammit!

This entire entry was brought on by a NY statewide ban on the alcohol-spiked energy drink "Four Loko."  For YEARS we've known that mixing alcohol and caffeine is horrible for your body, but the advent of Red Bull made it seem like it's totally okay.  Red Bull and Vodka is the new "It" drink, and all those people saying "NOOOOOOOOOOO, DON'T DO IT!!!!!!" have gone right by the wayside.  Thankfully, the FDA will be putting a ban on creating drinks marrying alcohol and caffeine within the next few days, but really--should they have to?  It's long since been known the devastating effects of this combination, but nobody's listened.

Listen.  Read.  Educate yourself. 

...it's all we've got left--nobody's gonna tell us on their own.