Have you noticed that there has been no advancement in the area of Suction Cup Technology? I thought by now we’d be regularly climbing in through our office windows, but, no, instead our bath pillows are still swinging loose and lazy. I think this little failure is a microcosm of the less than spirited scientific community. Honestly, why aren’t our scientists fixing problems and perfecting innovations. It seems that all too often our creators only shoot for the bigger achievements and, ultimately, fail at achieving them. So you’re saying none of you can focus on less glamorous problems? Somewhere along the line, it was decided that suction cups are just as good as they’re going to get and there was no point in wasting our “best minds” on it. Well I would remind those best minds that our cars still don’t fly (Michael J. Fox lied!) and the common cold still hangs out where it pleases. “Are those big enough problems to tackle,” I ask as my relaxing bath turns into a shoulder-juke session sans the comfort a static bath pillow would provide.
Has the luster of true achievement gotten cloudy? Is curing problems, ailments and puzzles less important than the profit attached to chronic treatment? The pressure of monetary concerns is the driving force now, not that ever-satisfying moment when one runs a line through an item on his/her list. I want to laugh about flat feet because it was solved by the HyperBoot or cast aspersions on that pop-up thunderstorm because of the Weather Protect Personal Force Field system. And most importantly, I want to rest easy knowing that the only concern I’ll have during a bath is that perhaps I’ll become too relaxed.
Strip Clubs are Sad Discos 