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Spoiled America: Re-examining the Wonders of our Daily Lives

TheThinkingAtheist

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I've Got It So Bad, the Law Needs Mowing Again

In the modern age, in my spoiled little world, a break of the skin doesn't mean infection that might kill me. A tooth abscess was once potentially deadly. To day it's a trip to the dentist. Epilepsy was often considered so strange and terrifying that people would blame it on demons. We wear contact lenses for vision correction when so many other people remain in a blurry disconnect from the world. Let's just take those things that grieve us, and let's take another look them against the forgotten things that we've often taken for granted. Even when our life seems intolerable to us, perhaps we are richer than we think.

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