a nifty club

If you're reading this then you, like me, are the sort of person who has the leisure time to sit around looking at a computer screen. You don't work in a dimly-lit factory all day making shoes you'll never afford and you don't rummage through the city dump looking for bottles to sell. You probably have a good education, and have maybe even spent some time considering the source issues behind poverty - but you'll never be poor. You also are unlikely to have anyone in your family man-handled in the next week in a war you didn't start, or by a corrupt government for whom you didn't vote.

Nope, you've got it pretty good. Chances are fairly high that you've never unintentionally gone without a meal and that the only time you've ever run out of money has been when you were in some tourist fantasy world and you left your fat wallet lying in front of somebody whose family had eaten nothing but rice for a month. Just like me. Welcome to the club.

Let's see, every club needs a name, so what shall we call ourselves? Something snappy, something catchy that will really get us out there - something we can use to create some real brand recognition. Hmmm. How about "The McAwesomes"? No, that's not it. How about "The Tech-no-crats"? I think it's been done. "Los Gringos"?

We'll have to think about that - group effort, you know. What matters is that we're a club now, which means that we're exclusive. The only way we can keep our integrity as a club is to keep out the riff-raff. This is going to have to be a group effort but, fortunately for us, it's going to be easy. We're not going to have to do anything. Just keep on going on exactly the way we are. Don't ask any questions and don't try to understand. Don't think about it. And buy lots of stuff. That's important, so don't forget it.

Well, well, I feel just dandy. I'm going to go off and write us up a club song. See ya 'round.