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McDonald’s Changed Their Peanuts!!
By mentor24 | June 18, 2008
Have you noticed that McDonald’s has changed their peanut supplier? No? Well, I did. And the fact that I did and you didn’t is proof that we are nearing the end of civilization. Oh, you don’t think I can support that statement with logical arguments? Well hear me out.
This little anecdote illustrates two core reasons why humanity is headed inexorably toward our fall.
1. The Fudge Factor
Hi. My name is Dane, and I’m a fudgaholic. It’s been just a few hours since my last McDonald’s hot fudge Sundae. I want to hold out, but seems like I end up having about three or so hot fudge sundaes a week. I always ask for two peanut packs cause one just doesn’t quite make it, and the indifferent employees always say “sure”. So this evening when I tore open my peanut pack I noticed it was a completely different package.
Well, the peanuts aren’t really the point. The point is that I’m kinda hooked on those sundaes. I know as far as vices go this isn’t one of the most reprehensible. Still, they aren’t good for me, and those $1 bills do add up. The $100 I’ll spend in a year just on hot fudge sundaes could probably support a whole family in Congo for a month. If I donated that $100 and just gave up the sundaes I’d feel better about myself, lose a little weight, and make a positive difference in somebody’s life. But I don’t think it’s gonna happen. Cause like I said, I’m kinda hooked on them.
Oh, so now your judging me? OK. What are you hooked on? Cigarettes? Pizza? Shopping for shoes? The latest tech gizmos? Cruisin’ around in your tricked out four-wheel drive? None of those? Well, I know there’s something. In the industrialized world, almost everybody is hooked on something. And even though we know it would probably be better for everyone concerned if we gave it up, we just can’t seem to do it. After all, it really isn’t that bad of a vice, and how much of a difference would it really make if we quit anyway? It’s so easy to rationalize giving in to temptation.
Now I’m not saying that a few hot fudge sundaes and closets full of shoes are going to bring civilization to its knees. Some addictions have a greater impact than others. The point is that human nature dictates that we will find a way to rationalize the destructive behaviors that give us some kind of temporary satisfaction but cause long-term damage. We may logically know it isn’t smart, but we’re gonna do it anyway. Cause we gots to have our goodies.
So as a civilization we’re just gonna keep on burning oil, burning rain forests, burning garbage, and burning money that we don’t actually have. Who’s gonna stop it? You? Me? Hey, all I’m doing is eating a few extra hot fudge sundaes!
2. Age of Entropy
Which brings me to the second point. You had no idea that McDonalds changed their peanut supplier (right?) because that’s just not your thing. Doesn’t even register in your consciousness. (Truth is, it’s not a big deal to me either–it’s just to illustrate the point). But if the style in shoes changed from wide heels to narrow heels, you might be keenly aware of that. Not me. And neither of us would have a clue that a hot new black metal band had just hit the scene. We all have our own thing, or really collection of things, these days. And it’s getting harder and harder to keep up with what other people are into.
Civilization is going to a state of entropy. The individuals that make up society are spinning off in different directions. We have less and less in common with each other every day.
So I don’t really fear your judgment about my hot fudge obsession. You don’t know me and you don’t know what it’s like to crave those damn sundaes. Gay folks are less likely to be concerned about the judgments of uptight conservatives than in past times. Smokers just go off to smoke with their smoker buddies. And don’t get me started on those clowns in their ten foot tall monster trucks. They don’t give a rip what anybody thinks.
Part of the glue that binds societies together are the agreed upon sins and taboos that we at least try to appear to avoid. But these days there are fewer and fewer behaviors that draw universal criticism. From NAMBLA to skinheads to monster truck fan clubs, there is a community of people ready to encourage whatever activity you want to engage in. (My hot fudge fetish ain’t sounding so bad about now, huh?)
And here’s the deal. It’s inevitable. It’s natural! Entropy is the way of Things. And by Things, I mean everything in the natural universe. Things spring to life from nothing–miraculously. They grow. They get strong. They mature. They age. They start to fall apart. And eventually they die and disintegrate. You name one thing that doesn’t follow this pattern for me and I’ll take back this whole article. But you can’t. It happens to everything, including civilizations.
You just have to ask yourself: at what point in that arc is our civilization? Are we at a place where things are coming together, building up, growing stronger? Or are we on the downhill slide? And if the latter, just how far down do you think we’ve gone and how much farther are we going to go?
Well, I really don’t know the answer to those questions. Could be it’s not as bad as it seems to me. It’s a pretty abstract concept. So I don’t plan to give up my hot fudge sundaes on account of it. I’m going to enjoy them while I can.
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