Reflections on the U.S.A.

The plane is making me very reflective...or maybe its just that I'm so bored and I just can't bring myself to study property. Anywho, lucky for you, you get two posts as a result of my imprisonment on this metal flying machine. I still have at least another 4 and half more hours. Ugh.

Anywho. I thought I might as well as reflect on my time in the U.S. Its been the first time since I've been back since I first left for UCL in September. So a good 7 months or so.

So overall I enjoyed my trip back. It would have been more enjoyable if I didn't have studying for exams hanging over my head but I guess part of me really liked being back in the familiar surroundings. As I mentioned before, the shopping was great. I really liked being home and knowing what brands were good, what weren't, what was crap, etc. And being that I don't have to worry about conversions, things are overall cheaper here.

Then of course there is the food. The food is good good good and not as expensive. And i of course enjoyed the free refills wherever I went. I went to a lot of my favourite places that I've missed and my last night in Chicago I got deep dish pizza. yum. Like its places like Noodles & Co, Chipotle, and Panera that I miss in England. They just don't have places like that..or you sort of do but your paying so much more for stuff that isn't even that fresh.

Therefore, along with that came the fact that there were a LOT of fat people. Everywhere. Like right now. I am currently staring at a very very fat man watching him struggle to get back into his tiny plane seat. ha. chuckle chuckle. God I'm a horrible person.

So after the shopping, and going to my favourite places to eat and driving everywhere, I had DVR and all my favourite channels on TV, I started to wonder why I hated the U.S. so much and I realised everything England was lacking. I was having fun, I had everything I liked. Then I started to watch the news and then I remembered why I could never live in the United States.

Americans are idiots. Massive massive idiots.

I hate the politics, I don't really like the culture. Watching the "news" and hearing what the stupid anchorpeople have to say makes me want to puncture my ear drum.

The general outlook of Americans on the rest of the world is disturbing.

For example..there is all this business with Obama meeting with the Russians to talk about nuclear disarmament. Great right? Um..not according to most U.S. news. They are all talking about how it puts us at risk, how we won't be able to protect ourself..blah blah blah.

UM HELLOOOOOOO. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS WE ACTUALLY HAVE. Apparently the number was something like 1500 bombs more 25 times more powerful than the bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. like seriously...how many fucking bombs do you think we need to completely annihilate a country. Um...not 1500 that is for sure.

Then there is the issue of..."if someone kills 1,000,000 americans, should we not be able to retaliate?" Um first of all..so many things wrong with this statement. Cutting nuclear weapons by a third is not going to affect your ability to retaliate. Second...yea, it would be absolutely horrific if a million american died...but how does it make it better to kill millions of people in another country? I don't understand the warped logic behind it. civilian lives are civilian lives. there are to be valued whatever country they are in.

Then there was that whole incident with finding out that apache helicopters in Iraq shot on innocent civilians including two cameramen for reuters because they thought they were weapons. Then a van showed up to help the wounded which was carrying two kids, the helicopters then proceeded to shoot mercilessly on the van killing the two children inside. The military's response: "Well it was their fault for bringing kids into a battle". Honestly...it makes me sick. Check out the video if you have time...just listening to the audio is enough to make you hate humanity with a passion.

It was then that I realised that good shopping, cheap/good food, and the Daily Show (only good source of news in the U.S.) are not enough good reasons to want to stay in the U.S.

So here I am..sitting on a plane back to England. I don't know where I will eventually end up (hopefully the Netherlands) but one thing I'm sure of is that I could never permanently go back to the U.S.