if you'd like to be angry and appalled for a while

The other day we watched two really amazing (and rage-inducing) documentaries. One is called Flow. It is about water, and the gigantic multinational corporations who are stealing water from 3rd world countries and selling it back to them for a sizable profit. It's atrocious what these companies do. Lack of access to potable water is a huge, huge problem. It's frightening. So many people die from parasites and diseases and chemicals in dirty water, and these companies are part of the problem. They're totally evil. When water purification and distribution is privatized, everything goes to shit. The whole movie was just painfully sad and completely disgusting.

Then we watched Who Killed the Electric Car? GM used to have a completely electric car called the EV-1, which was a zero emissions vehicle. There were about 150 of them that had been leased out to people, mainly celebrities, and anyone who had one was totally in love with it. And then GM took all the cars back and destroyed every single one of them. Because they like their oil money and if people knew about the cars they would want them and GM might be under pressure to start mass producing them, which would upset the oil companies. Also electric cars would need much less maintenance (no complicated engine) and GM would lose money.

The general theme of both documentaries is giant corporations are pure evil and the government (of course) does nothing to protect us from them because they're being controlled by the giant corporations.

Andrea is ready to move to France or the Moon or something. She's been in an America-hating mood lately. I don't blame her. It's hard not to hate America sometimes. We are mad at America because it has so much potential. It could be such a great country. It's just not there yet. I don't know if it ever will be.

Anyway. We'll just keep our bags packed for Canada or Mars or wherever. And if we go we'll totally send you guys a postcard.