Parody
New Pledge of Allegiance?
Given that most of the eligible voters in the United State don't vote, don't write or speak with their governmental "representatives", don't take responsibility for most of their actions, and that we have an Institutional Mediacracy where we get extremely limited news and canned sound bites from the mainstream media, it may be time that we replace the "Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America" in order to more reflect the current attitudes of our citizenry.
Pledge of Indifference to the Mediacratic States of Generica
I guess I'm indifferent
to the plight
of the Mediacratic States of Generica
and to the disfunction
from which we sue
one audience,
under stress,
insatiable,
with lotteries and Prozac for some.
The snowpacks on Mount Kilimanjaro that inspired Ernest Hemingway to title a book after them are over 11,000 years old. In less that a century about 80% of this snowpack has disappeared. At this rate the entire snowpack will disappear within just 20 years and the entire ecosystem and human culture around the mountain could be adversely affected due to their dependence on this water. This is not unique to Africa. It is happening a similar rate around the world and is likely due to global warming.