I wonder what you would find if you went to some places that weren’t so down and out? Just seems like you were doing a little self-selecting here. Flop house motels are going to have people of a certain lifestyle and level of learned helplessness. When you talk to people who are stuck in place for what ever reason, you will get a certain…
I wonder what you would find if you went to some places that weren’t so down and out? Just seems like you were doing a little self-selecting here. Flop house motels are going to have people of a certain lifestyle and level of learned helplessness. When you talk to people who are stuck in place for what ever reason, you will get a certain story. But considering the number of x-heroin addicts is less than .1% of the population, you are not getting a true cross section of the other 99.8% of the country, you know what I mean? It would be interesting to balance this by hearing from some people for whom the American dream is working. But, they are working, and so harder to run down, I suppose. Plus, you can order a fish sandwich with extra lettuce and tomato, hold the bun, at MacD’s. Or a turkey sausage, egg and cheese English muffin and a plain coffee at Dunkin Donuts. No one made you eat all that sugar. You had some choices there,too, you know?
lol. I am writing about what others eat, not me. And those are not healthy meals and if you think they are then I suggest you try some fresh authentic meals like most of the rest of the world eats.
Everything is relative. If you try to do the best you can with what is presented to you, that’s it, you are doing the best you can. I am not dissing those people you talked to- just saying it was sort of a skewed sample there. And a depressing read. A guy distancing himself from his addict family to stay heroin free is a good story in and of itself. It’s just not the story of the average American, you know? But four donuts, that was a bit much . Really, who eats for donuts, and then complains when they feel like crap? What did you think would happen? Not really judging tho-My donut consumption is scheduled, and anticipated, and limited to one every six days, the rate that keeps my AC1 at an acceptable level. You write well, sorry for being cranky.
Chris - it’s a vast world, and I do feel like you go straight for the derelicts, eat garbage food and then get discouraged. Reminds me of your walking trip through Phoenix.
Please keep walking around America. McDonald’s has gone way downhill since the pandemic, with screens replacing people, but visit better places. It’s not the Mickey D’s of 2016. Think fast casual restaurants like Chipotle. I would love to get your perspective on this land. Talk to the middle class not the under class.
A fish sandwich at McDonalds is a better choice but hardly nutritious, for your body or your soul. And although we all have the ability to choose, it seems the point of the writing is that cultural influence has led us Americans to be conditioned to choose a lifestyle of sedentary, junk eating, isolated, depressed people. And that is hard to deny for the majority of Americans, no?
What is nutritious is a home cooked meal eaten with people you love followed by a stroll through your neighborhood. I will say there is much more optimism in my suburban experience but a lot is still missing and the drug is alcohol rather than heroin.
Ok on my way to Panera, which is McDonalds for the upper middle class because I’m bored alone at home. So American.
I wonder what you would find if you went to some places that weren’t so down and out? Just seems like you were doing a little self-selecting here. Flop house motels are going to have people of a certain lifestyle and level of learned helplessness. When you talk to people who are stuck in place for what ever reason, you will get a certain story. But considering the number of x-heroin addicts is less than .1% of the population, you are not getting a true cross section of the other 99.8% of the country, you know what I mean? It would be interesting to balance this by hearing from some people for whom the American dream is working. But, they are working, and so harder to run down, I suppose. Plus, you can order a fish sandwich with extra lettuce and tomato, hold the bun, at MacD’s. Or a turkey sausage, egg and cheese English muffin and a plain coffee at Dunkin Donuts. No one made you eat all that sugar. You had some choices there,too, you know?
lol. I am writing about what others eat, not me. And those are not healthy meals and if you think they are then I suggest you try some fresh authentic meals like most of the rest of the world eats.
Everything is relative. If you try to do the best you can with what is presented to you, that’s it, you are doing the best you can. I am not dissing those people you talked to- just saying it was sort of a skewed sample there. And a depressing read. A guy distancing himself from his addict family to stay heroin free is a good story in and of itself. It’s just not the story of the average American, you know? But four donuts, that was a bit much . Really, who eats for donuts, and then complains when they feel like crap? What did you think would happen? Not really judging tho-My donut consumption is scheduled, and anticipated, and limited to one every six days, the rate that keeps my AC1 at an acceptable level. You write well, sorry for being cranky.
Chris - it’s a vast world, and I do feel like you go straight for the derelicts, eat garbage food and then get discouraged. Reminds me of your walking trip through Phoenix.
Please keep walking around America. McDonald’s has gone way downhill since the pandemic, with screens replacing people, but visit better places. It’s not the Mickey D’s of 2016. Think fast casual restaurants like Chipotle. I would love to get your perspective on this land. Talk to the middle class not the under class.
A fish sandwich at McDonalds is a better choice but hardly nutritious, for your body or your soul. And although we all have the ability to choose, it seems the point of the writing is that cultural influence has led us Americans to be conditioned to choose a lifestyle of sedentary, junk eating, isolated, depressed people. And that is hard to deny for the majority of Americans, no?
What is nutritious is a home cooked meal eaten with people you love followed by a stroll through your neighborhood. I will say there is much more optimism in my suburban experience but a lot is still missing and the drug is alcohol rather than heroin.
Ok on my way to Panera, which is McDonalds for the upper middle class because I’m bored alone at home. So American.
Yes, Pamela Braxton, “And the drug is alcohol rather than heroin…” and alcohol is everywhere!