I'm just watching the NLCS between the Mets and the Cards and a Chevy commercial comes on. It has images of Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin Luther King, lower Manhattan with the beams of light where the World Trade Center towers once stood, pictures of political protests during the 60s and several other memorable images. The sound track is provided by John Mellencamp and the commercial ends with "This is your country. This is your truck."
Am I too cynical to think that this demeans and marginalizes the memory of these important people and significant events? Am I just an old fart fussing about nothing in particular, just to have something to bitch about? Does anybody else care about this?
Help me, I'm growing old.
In the meantime, the Mets scored. The world is going to hell.
UPDATE: The Cardinals come back and win. There is some cosmic justice.
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