"Okay, we can't live without spunk, you got us...but we sure as fuck can live without bullshit bottled water."
I always see a recycling bin full of those damn water bottles. From schools, to offices, to parks, to houses, there's a bin full of those wastes of plastics. At some apartment buildings I work at, the recycling bins are overfilling with that crap on a daily basis. I could somewhat understand people buying bottled water for when they're on the go, but at your home where there's water that's practically free, you don't need to stock up on bottled water and go through a case every fucking day while you stay home (staying home and drinking bottled water, am I the only one that sees how retarded this is? I can picture someone just drinking a bottle of water right in front of their fully functional kitchen sink....meanwhile people in third world countries would kill just to have clean running water that idiot Americans have but don't take advantage of cause the water isn't packaged and advertised to them enough, gawd forbid you drink water that wasn't sold to you in a containter, ugh).
"But they're recycling so what should it matter if there's so many water bottles?," you say. Recycling is so overrated, it still fucks the environment over due to a lot of processes and materials involved to get recycling started. TRUCKS that cause pollution pick up all that recycled junk for chrissakes, you can try to bitch about car pollution being a bigger problem to bitch about but it's much easier to stop drinking bottled water than to invent a dependable, affordable, clean alternative energy source isn't it? If you can't do something simple, how do you expect to change ANYTHING? Lets also not forget all the processes and wasted resources used to make those precious plastic bottles to begin with.
The answer is not recycling. Recycling is just a way for people to pat themselves on the back as if they're doing the world such a big favor after fucking it over. Here's a bright idea, why not just have NOTHING TO RECYCLE TO BEGIN WITH? Just drink tapwater from one of your glasses. "But tapwater is disgusting and dirty," you say. That's funny cause tapwater actually has higher standards than bottled water due to the government's scrutiny of it and do you really think bottled water is shipped straight from the lakes of heaven as God mixes some fresh batches of hydrogen and oxygen together? There have even been blind taste tests where some people preferred the taste of tapwater over bottled water, although most people didn't even taste much of a difference. And if tapwater was so dirty, why the hell do you bathe yourself in it? That ain't bottled water coming from your shower is it?
We're in a mindless consumer-driven society where people feel insecure and displease if they didn't purchase something packaged and overhyped. And bottled water is one of those things to purchase. Corporations make bottled water look like some sort of magical and pure elixir. They dress it up in all these stylish bottles and slap a name that sounds like some refreshing mountain forest place (Crystal Geiser, Arrowhead, Deep River Rock, etc) or just plain metrosexual (Dasani,what the fuck is a Dasani?). They must get the same creative team that cooks up metrosexual names for fancy cars and contrived shampoo scents like "Spring Shower Passion".
Can't really put all the blame on the corporations though, they're just trying to take advantage of everyone's stupidity to make money (isn't that what we all do in this capitalist country?). I blame the moronic consumers for this the most. How can you be so fucking stupid that you rely on buying bottled water to live? Water is such a primal need of all life forms, it's ridiculous knowing your life directly depends on corporations having to bottle and then sell to you what you life depends on regularly. I hope every brand of bottled water goes extinct so I can see you all die of thirst….why are there so many different brands of bottled water anyways, do particular brands have water that tastes more like water than the water of the other water company? Who has the most watery tasting water? Oh wait, maybe water tastes like what the brand names are. Like Crystal Geiser tastes like a bunch of crystals, Arrowhead has an arrowheady taste to it, and Dasani…uhh, Dasani tastes like whatever the fuck a Dasani is.
Well if my short rant didn't convince you about bottled water representing everything wrong with society (the manipulative corporations and stupid people), check out this site, which has a wealth of knowledge that should shut you bottled water drinkers up.
http://www.bottledwaterblues.com/
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