Ingenious Ingenuity

I posted this link on Facebook and a friend asked what on earth had happened to American ingenuity. This was my response: We used it to design "green" vehicles that get the same gas mileage as suvs so we didn't lose any power, genetically modified food that does God knows what and factory farms that are hell on earth for the animals so we could poison ourselves with our food. Oh, and we used it to particularly good advantage to figure out how to game the system so we didn't have to pay taxes, or much to employees (for that matter), or anything to clean up our pollution or toward making a safe product - to figure out how we could get the absolute last dollar from the poor saps buying our BS. Then we (the saps - the 1% who raped the world were off somewhere sunning themselves, swimming in the warm Caribbean, and eating organic nummies prepared by world-class chefs) freaked out and stuck our heads in the sand and wailed, "This is not happening, this is not happening, this is not happening," as the world collapsed around us on absolutely every possible front. Apparently, the 1% is too busy congratulating themselves to have figured out that it's their world, too.