Oh America and it's pornographic relationship with money and consumption and a psycho-pathological obsession with having THINGS. To be sure, $750 is 10 000 South African Rands! For an alcoholic beverage? To what end? I love a good life but Americans have to be sick in some way in order to glorify consumer products in such a disturbing manner. To live life for the sole purpose of accumulating money.

But what's beyond curious is the fact that American's (particularly and disturbingly my fellow African descendants in that country) are proud of the fact that they are a country which glorifies greed and only sees that those who should be respected are not people of service but those who have more money than anyone else. 315 milliom people fawning and lusting over 35 million people's possessions. Apparently this country is the "greatest country in the world". American exceptionalism they call. They accuse other countries of jealousy and envy at their very much ill-gotten economic wealth. But I think on closer inspection one finds it's not envy, but it's sympathetic fascination as to how on Earth is it possible that such a great number of human beings can value money so absolutely yet the avarage American can get blacklisted because they couldn't pay their medical bill.