We’ve all heard, “how do you know if you are a redneck?”. Well, I’ve got my own list to the question of, “how do you know if you are a GPI (General Public Idiot)?.”

1. If most of the food items in your basket at the grocery store that you think are healthy have high fructose corn syrup.

2. If you still write checks and also balance your check book with other people waiting in line behind you when you go shopping. (They have debit cards now. They’ve been around for like 13 years. Get one.)

3. If you believe more than 50% of anything you see and hear from the TV mainstream media

4. If you watch American Idol or any TV sitcom

5. If you believe that global warming is man made and you are buying green products

6. If you think Elvis is still alive, but don’t believe that Jesus ever rose from the dead

7. If you leave your dog at home inside all day long so that it eventually urinates on your carpet

8. If you still think the government prints the money that circulates

9. If you still go and see movies

10. If you buy all of your clothes retail

11. If you drive 10 mph under the speed limit because you think you are going to save a ton of money on gas

12. If you park your car in the street and not in your own driveway

13. If you think the president of the US actually calls all the shots

14. If you eat food samples sitting out on a tray at a grocery store. The samples would probably make a better lab sample for bacteria and virus testing.

15. If you poop at work. I mean, who does that? Do that at home! Change your diet too. How much of a pig does one have to be to always have to take dumps during the middle of the day?

16. If you think that the upper management and directors at your company are smart people that do anything. Believe me, your job is harder than theirs is.

17. If you think Russia is still the Soviet communist country it was in the 80’s.

18. If you believe anything you read in a magazine about hollywood. (Stop buying the stupid magazines at the store. The script is carried off of the screen. And all of you dopes actually believe it’s all real.)

19. If you cannot make the connection that the same global elites that finance communism also finance hollywood and the democratic party. It’s not hard to connect the dots.

Then you might be a General Public Idiot.

Everyone alive today is living in a completely different time than any other. For most of human civilization, humans have lived as animals. Humans have lived as animals for hundreds of thousands, or possibly, millions of years. We’ve only been living in modern times for hardly even a hundred years. If you were alive just a little more than 100 or 150 years ago, then you’d more than likely be building your own home by hand and catching your own food. That is, if you weren’t a peasant living over in Europe. If you were living in America, you more than likely lived off the land while your wife made all of the family’s clothes and cooked all of the meals that you either hunted or harvested. But still so, for the greater part of human civilization, humans hunted with hand made weapons and lived in the wilderness. We were animals, but just a more intelligent form of an animal. Computers, TV’s, radios, malls, cars, movies, and hollywood have only been around for a tiny spec of time.

The point I am trying to get across that a lot of people probably understand is that things have not been like this for very long. Heck, toilet paper wasn’t invented until the late 1800’s. Even though humans have roamed the earth for a million years or even more, we’ve only been using toilet paper for like 120 years of that million years. Knowing that, maybe even being born into poverty today is still considered pretty lucky. I would imagine most section 8 apartments out there have plenty of toilet paper and running water. That’s a lot more than what most of human civilization ever got to have.

And yet, we might still only be living in the beginning to times. Humans could still be around for the next million years. We will probably continue to evolve and adapt. We will become more intelligent. We might even develop different mental abilities than what we have now. Maybe even instead of having to go to school to learn anything, the information can be downloaded into our brains so we can know everything there is to know within a second rather than going to school for 20 years to learn nothing. Then again, the possibility remains that we might be living at the height of technology. Meaning, we could all very easily return back to the stone age. All it would take is for us to bomb ourselves into the stone age or for a global natural disaster to occur such as what happened in the dinosaur age. Bottom line is that we are still very well adapted to live outdoors more than what we might think. Afterall, most of human civilization has lived in the wilderness and I would say our bodies have had most of its evolution and adaptation geared towards that.

Just simply driving down the highway is an excellent representation of life. Everything that is on the highway coincides with life.

As I was driving down the highway the other day, I noticed how everyone on the road seemed to be a representation of how society operates. There are people that are driving too slow that are in everyone’s way and have no clue as to what is going on around them. There are people that break the law and ride your bumper and can careless that they are not only wasting gas, but they are also prematurely wearing out the engines of their vehicles. Both types of drivers make conditions dangerous for everyone else on the road.

There are people driving vehicles that they just do not need such as large trucks and SUVs. They do not haul anything with them nor do they drive off-road. I see plenty of women driving SUVs because they want to portray a certain image. They want to be an “SUV wife”. They can careless that they are adding to the energy demands of the nation.

Then you have people such as myself, that drive a perfect 5 mph over the speed limit and have a car that gets decent gas mileage. A car that suits my needs. I’m never in anyone’s way and I only change lanes when there is an open spot.

I see a lot of other people that “ask to change lanes”. Meaning, they will go to a spot on the highway where other cars already reside in a particular lane, and then they will turn their signal on and “ask” for someone to give them a spot. These types of drivers could very easily either speed up or slow down to go to an open spot as not to inconvenience anyone, but no, they would rather inconvenience people and “ask” to move over into another lane. These types of people have disregard for other people and do not care to inconvenience someone as long as they are getting what they need for themselves. These types usually make their problems visible to everyone else. They will go around and tell everyone if there is ever a problem and let everyone know about everything. Basically, if there is ever a problem or if they are ever in need of anything, they will lose their dignity over it. They want other people to make room for them in the road of life rather than gaining some pride and finding their own space. But then again, these types do not have the ability to develop a sense of pride.

The people that break the law and drive too fast are the people that represent the individuals who do whatever the heck they want in the moment without thinking about future consequences. These are people that will take out enormous interest-only mortgages on homes only to go into foreclosure a few years later contributing to the devaluation of the dollar. They will run up credit debt like there is no tomorrow. Everything is instant gratification for them and they can careless if they are endagering your life. They are destroying their car by driving it 80 mph down the highway. They basically will sacrifice anything at all cost to get what they want no matter what it could possibly do to other people. A lot of these people get away with it most of their lives and always seem to come out smelling like a rose, but eventually they will skip a beat. And when that happens, it’s all over with for them.

The people that drive too slow and are in everyone’s way are the people that do not need to be on the highway. You are always having to go around them. They represent the individuals that provide nothing but a drain on society. In a nutshell, they are in society’s way. They are in the economy’s way. They just will not move along with the mainstream of society. They live on your social welfare system. Your tax dollars support them. Your tax dollars even pay for their vehicles, their newly built section 8 apartment, the flat screen TV they have, and the cabinets full of cheap high fructose corn syrup food items they eat while watching Oprah.

Then you get your people that seem to ride in your blind spot or on your bumper no matter the speed you are going. If you speed up, then so do they. If you slow down, then so do they. These people represent the people that do what everyone else does. They have no minds of their own. They march to the beat of whatever drum is provided to them without questioning anything. These are excellent people to market to. They will buy any product just as long as other people are buying it. They will dress, act, talk, do, vote, or listen to whatever they see everyone else doing. They are mindless followers.

Then you get those people that drive a perfect 5 mph over the speed limit and cause no hassles on the road. In short, it’s too bad everyone cannot be like this. Society would be so utopian if it were. America would be a greater superpower than it ever was instead of being the decline that it is in. Insurance rates would be lower. Healthcare rates would be lower. Gas prices would be lower. And there would be more jobs available. How come? Because these people just simply do what is right. They aren’t the major contributors to car accidents which nationwide will contribute to higher insurance rates. They don’t over-consume gas. So prices would of course be lower. They don’t buy things that they just simply do not need. Because nationwide, the greater the debt of the people, the greater the devaluation is of the that nation’s currency. International investors pull out of the market and less jobs become available. Retirement accounts also stop growing. These people have mind’s of their own and can see the big picture. They know who to vote for when it come’s to the country’s leadership. They know what to do that is always in the best interest of themselves and everyone else around them.

So if you find yourself wondering what the heck ever happened to the great country we once had, just take a look around on the highway of life next time. You can thank all the mindless GPI’s that drive the same way they live their lives.

I know it sounds harsh, unrealistic. How could that be? We have cars, nice houses, computers, TIVO, etc.

Yes, but isn’t it curious that 95% of us reaching retirement age are unable to retire, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics? How is that we can end up with little to no money after “slaving” for 40 years?

Step back and take a look at your life through the lenses of someone just arriving from outer space. See how different your situation looks:

You work for The Man.

You are in debt to The Man

The Man owns most of your possessions

The Man controls your life

In the old days, as now; The Man fed, clothed and housed his slaves in return for their labor. Although you are no longer controlled by iron chains, you are now controlled by a pay check.

The Man pays you just enough to meet your basic necessiti