Living In A Nation Built On Red Meat And Porn: The Illusion Of Hollywood And The Way We Eat

Recently, I took a much needed road trip to Reno, Nevada to do a few things. First and foremost, to visit my lovely mother and her rather talented boyfriend in what would prove to be the lovely suburb of Damonte Ranch, a place that actually looked a lot like Valencia, California. I looked around for a juice bar, salad bar...just any glimpse of hope, really. But what I found was actually astonishing.

So when it came to the very subject of wheatgrass and other superfoods, the conversation actually took an interesting turn, one that would prove to be downright scary. It appeared that my mom and her friend were actually quite opposed to the idea of drinking a liquid grass that grew from wheat by the roadside, and this of course was an understandable sentiment. Because who the hell would ever dream of drinking, wait for it...wheatgrass?!

But even in this context, there was still something that didn't make sense: my parents wouldn't drink a green drink that had more Vitamin K than a ginseng tree in China, but--and that's a big "but"--they were willing to shoehorn down their throats the very juice that comes from a suffocated potato, a potato that's been suffocated and deprived of oxygen, and therefore produced a syrup that got a bunch of hillbillies drunk and they bottled it. But you know how that is: "Elvis didn't do no drugs," and so my parents must've somehow been right about killing a cow and taking a "whiskey drink and a vodka drink," as the song from the '90s says.

And so my friend and I were left in that "land of decision," where red meat, alcohol and Skynard were the staple of nearly everyone's diet. Southern rock and sex on ice: yeah baby!

But that's not really the visceral response that I had during my time in Reno, because if anything, I came to a revelation: America is a country built on red meat, alcohol and porn, because red meat and alcohol all too often facilitate those mindsets and behaviors that either lead to fornication, drunkenness and/or red meat consumption. Sex, meat and alcohol; these are the big three elements that make up our nation's "holy trinity."

Here's the part that a lot of folks don't understand: micronutrients are what we're lacking. They're the ones that are the most important, and they stand in opposition to macronutrients, those that are found in most processed foods. The problem is that most of our nation's foods are processed ones, which essentially means that our Western world is completely void of any real food sources.

No one can ever tell me that we don't have a real genocide in America, because that "genocide" is a slow one that seems to be a little more under the radar than what Hitler had in mind during World War II. No offense to Hollywood either, but fuck those mother fuckers for leading an entire nation of people to truly believe that pussy and fast cars can be had through some kind of a "razor's edge," or a Fonzarelli-like magical act. Take it from the son of a bodyman: girls and cars don't come for free, and either do green drinks.

In fact, if you closely investigate a man like my father, what you will absolutely find is that each and every path that leads to something good is one that has to be taken with care-and-caution. When you wish for something, you have to be ready for consequences. When you hope for the "best," the "best" never comes, but when it comes to mediocrity, just settling in, this is an action and a state of mind that literally takes all but five seconds to adopt.

So is it our parents/grandparents' fault that they adhere to backward practices? Of course not! Because that would be like me saying that I'm backwards for falling under that crazy assumption that disabled guys can't get play from chicks. It's not my fault or my parents', because these are the conditions that we were just taught to accept for so long. Welcome to the '90s! "Saved By The Bell," "Sweet Valley High," and of course that crazy notion that disabled guys can't get laid. "Elvis didn't do no drugs!"

And since it is true that Elvis Presley never did drugs, it must also be true that we're not really being conditioned by our own pop culture and lamestream media. Right! And if you believe that, then you must also believe Chris Columbus' notion that the earth really is flat, and that it's biologically unsafe for blacks and whites to sit at the same lunch counter together.

If you believe all of this, then it's probably safe to assume that you'll fall for pretty much anything and everything. Hard as it is to believe, this is the path of America and the "progressive" world's majority! But after all, wheatgrass tastes like shit, and Elvis never did drugs!