Why are we never satisfied?  We want more, we want more, we want more!  One is never good enough.  Children buy their parents duplicates of a toy, just in case one gets ruined.  We find a shirt we like at the mall at a good price – we buy three.  Soup goes on sale at the supermarket and people are going crazy filling up their carts with the buy one get one specials.  We don’t eat one slice of pizza – we eat two, we eat three, we eat the whole damn pie. 

We want more of everything and what’s worse we want it now.  Not only do we insist on having more than our neighbors, we demand that the good things in life happen right now, right this second or, goddamn it, we’re going to take our ball and clomp on home, or worse, we are going to throw our ball really hard at your little pea-brained head.  We are the greedy little fat kids of the world, hording our toys, gobbling up our candy, and laughing maniacally as all the other kids sit around and look mad. 

When I go to Europe next summer, I’m going to feel embarrassed to even admit that I am American citizen.  I shudder to think what the rest of the world thinks about our country!  America is the big bad bully nation of the world, and whether I care to admit it or not, I am an American. 

I live in the country directly benefiting from the wars we start in the world.  I live in the country, the king of commericialism, that spreads its poison via advertising – movies, commercials, product placement, making sure that you want it and want it bad. 

And what does the world think Americans are like?