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As a mat­ter of com­plete coin­cid­ence I happened to con­sume both a bottle of Diet Coke and a Pep­per­mint Tic-Tac today. As a fur­ther instance of coin­cid­ence I actu­ally looked at the nutri­tion inform­a­tion on the labels, and I was shocked to dis­cover that there were more cal­or­ies in the Tic-Tac than there were in the whole bottle of Coke. As I thought a bit fur­ther about this it occurred to me that I shouldn’t be shocked at all. I have con­sumed dozens, per­haps even hun­dred of those little bottles in my 18 years, why is it a shock now? And I answer myself, because no-one both­ers to read the damn things.

No-one both­ers to read the labels.

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This makes a lot of sense. It explains a lot of the things that go wrong in society.

Point #1. Soar­ing levels of obesity in West­ern Nations.

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food. People don’t bother to take notice of the crap they eat. Off the top of your head, how many grams of fat are there in a Big Mac? A tub of Greater Union’s buttered pop­corn? Mum’s Continental’s Beef Strogan­off? I’d say none of you do (If you do, that prob­ably explains why you’re read­ing this blog). Surely, if people bothered to read those damn labels, and actu­ally com­pre­hen­ded the inform­a­tion they present, there wouldn’t be a need for quad­ruple bypass sur­ger­ies, because blood ves­sels wouldn’t be filled with lard in the first place. If people bothered to read, McDonald’s and its ilk wouldn’t be doing such massive busi­ness world­wide, filling us with their gast­ro­lo­gic poison.

Point #2. Work­place injur­ies and deaths

Work­place and Employee safety laws vir­tu­ally ensure every envir­on­ment of employ­ment is filled with ridicu­lous and pain­fully obvi­ous signs warn­ing work­ers why they shouldn’t put their hands in the cogs of that thingamy­bob, or why they should wear hard­hats where cer­tain knick-knacks are likely to severely impact skulls. And yet, people simply do not take notice. How hard is it to fol­low fuck­ing instruc­tions? They let their own stu­pid­ity either take their lives or at least severely limit it, and then have the nerve to pur­sue ridicu­lous legal claims, which leads me to my next point.

Point #3. The rise of the liti­gi­ous soci­ety.

If you’ve ever watched day-time tele­vi­sion, you’ve undoubtedly come across shows such as Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown. Filled with South­ern trailer-trash bick­er­ing over the most trivial matters.

to be con­tin­ued… (I’m tired)