Is this what we have been reduced to? A down and out American car-maker "competing" against a more down and out car-maker? I don't know what else to say.
A "celebrity" (who I'd never heard of, though I have been a life-long "consumer" of as much of what the media has to offer as anyone could possibly have ever been able to process - years circa 1968 to 1997) said verbatim the sentence I used as my diary title. I learned through my brother that the "actor" who spoke that sentence is the host of a reality show, named Mike Rowe. Well, it turns out that Mike Rowe is also the spokesperson for a highly popular line of denim bluejeans. And in the "commercials" that air promoting those jeans the "middle-aged" Mike Rowe is more than once seen acknowledging that the highly-attractive, much younger woman who has just "accidentally" witnessed his butt must be sexually appreciating his butt. He does this with witty comments, and furtive, telling looks, but this is exactly what he does.
I just don't feel as though I need to go any further into parsing what is potentially right and potentially wrong with these messages. But, at the risk of once again running my mouth off, what the FUCK is going on here? Well I'll tell you, as if you didn't know - ALL the "money" in the world is going to a very, VERY few people who dish it out to a very few more people, who then dish that money out (after, of course, they have taken theirs too) to a few other people who then are expected to extract the bulk of the energy required to actually "get things done" from the "workers" and relative slaves that remain within the "bottom" EIGHTY to NINETY percent of the "economic" population. See?
I so welcome any further commentary. And please forgive me.
UPDATE: I see how this can come off as an insult to Mike Rowe. I sincerely didn't mean it to be that way. I really didn't know who he was, and I do not think that he does not have a nice butt. I am "middle-aged" and don't consider myself the worse for it. And I did not mean to demean the specific person "Mike Rowe" in my diary. I just was using him as an example. I am sure he is a stand up guy. And from what I have heard about what he doe son his reality show, I highly admire him. And again, while I see how my use of him as an example in the admittedly thin description of some of what seems do wrong with out culture could seem to seem like a denigration of him as a person, that was not my intent.
I did write off the cuff, on the spur of the moment. I do not have as much time as I wish I had to refine my thoughts further every time I find the opportunity to express myself. For any offense I caused, I apologize. And I hope that the sentiment of my attempt finds empathetic minds. Thanks to Markos, and to all who contribute to this site, where we can try and make our feelings and thoughts known.