Imagine if you owned a company that polluted a river that people swam in. Do you think the people who swam there would think you were patriotic? What if you company employed people, would that make it OK to pollute the river?
How about this, you log forests and that logging causes all sorts of environmental damage, from erosion related flooding to global warming. Is the logger patriotic? He/she is damaging not only their area, but the world. But then, they are cutting forests because we demand wood and paper and all the other stuff dead trees give us.
How about McDonalds? Patriotic? Let's see, they make food and feed billions. Of course, their food is unhealthy and filled with genetically enhanced beef products and parts of chickens that don't show up in biology books. But they feed billions, they must be patriots. Plus, they make a handy profit, which is always good in a capitalistic society. Except this, the food they sell is killing millions of people.
Those obese people we see all over our streets and certainly behind the wheel of large automobiles did not get that way from a gland problem, or at least the vast majority did not get that way. No, they, we, ate our way to blimpiness.How did we do that? By eating crap, day in, day out for years. Where do we buy a lot of that crap? Places like McDonalds.
It's weird, in a society that is built around making a dollar and selling anything possible to remind us of what a great country we are, is killing itself in both unhealthy diets and an unwillingness to provide education and healthcare for the people who are just doing what the society is telling them to do. Eat more, eat fast more, eat more fast food more.
And these corporations are patriots, right?
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