Oklahoma is OK, not great, just OK
The O’Collegian’s editorial board has found one of America’s biggest problems: Our love of complaining.
Americans would rather gripe about today’s problems rather than solve them.
Let’s take for example the high gas prices:
You’re still going to pay for gas regardless of whether gas tops out at more than $4 per gallon. Think about it. Would you walk 20 miles for $4?
Didn’t think so.
Instead of doing something, we whine about how tough life is, when in reality, we’re very lucky to have cars, bikes, etc.
If you want to do something about gas prices, go buy a hybrid or a car that runs off a gas alternative, like cooking grease.
Or, go dig your rickety old bike out from the depths of your garage.
If you have to, start walking everywhere.
Our point is, unless you try to solve the problem, there is no use in complaining about it.
Complaining has never fixed anything.
Sure, we the people really can’t do much about the gas prices (except complain), but if we the people put our heads together, we might be able to come up with an alternate-fuel source.
Just think, the Henry Ford of alternate fuels could be sitting in front of a computer, too lazy to do anything but blog about how he or she hates how expensive gas is, hates his or her old rickety bike because it’s rusty, hates walking because it causes blisters and hates cooking grease-fueled cars because they reek of fries.
It’s time we put our money where our mouths are.
—The Daily O’Collegian
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This editorial then, is a complaint against complaining, right? Ironic. It reminds me of the editorials/articles about Britney Spears that deplore all the Britney Spears coverage.
In any case, I basically agree that the endless complaining about high gas prices is can be annoying, much like the endless complaining and whining about global warming.
However, if something can be done about high gas prices, then perhaps the complaining might lead to something being done–more offshore drilling, drilling in the ANWR, smaller cars, more hybrid cars, more windmills in the great plains, better mass transit, etc.
I am much more frustrated by the complaints about global warming than I am by the complaints about high gas prices, for one very simple reason–high gas prices are real, and the complaints might lead to solutions, while global warming is an inconvenient hoax, with no solution.
Alternative fuel sources? People preach this like it is some overnight fix, when in reality it would take years and years to fully integrate into the economy. All this talk about alternative fuel sources is just some pie in the sky theory that we don’t have time to wait around for.
Also, exactly what is the point of Campbell’s cartoon today? Other than just another example of how much of an idiot he is.
Actually Beau, I find Campbell’s cartoon to be a model of clarity. Notice how concise his humor is–he has a miraculous ability to distill a variety of perceptive socio-economic criticisms into a pointed, easy-to-grasp, and uncluttered cartoon. I find his labels very helpful, very useful, because they enable me to grasp the full significance of what his skilled drawings are expressing . . . and believe me, what he’s expressing is profound and distressing–I believe it has something to do with child abuse and obesity in Oklahoma City, but it’s really about much more than that. In fact, I think what the cartoon is really addressing is the fate of children in a post-modern society ruled by rampant over-consumption and alienation.
Justin, that was a sarcastic joke right?