Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The water and the stoopid

Beam me up Scotty!! and hurry damnit!
I never though I'd be in that age of humanity when people start paying for water like it is a manufactured product.

By "manufactured' I meant that the raw materials did not resemble the end product. A bottled water cost $1.00 for the 20oz. Pepsi in comparison, cost the same, but with value-added nuritional stuff like: carbonated water, sugar, caffeine , some weird acids, number-coded colors and other artificail alien secretions that we probably dont want to know.

The Aquafina bottle says: "All bottled waters are not the same. Aquafina's state-of-the-art hydRO-7 TM purification system consistently removes substances most other bottled waters leave in. So the only thing you taste in your water...is water".

Straight from their Marketing slogan, there's nothing in it but water. They gave us damn pure water, there werent minerals, no Sodium, not even a single calorie in it!! And like mindless creatures, we actually love and pay for it. I must be damn rich because I bathe, tub and flush with the same stuff everyday! If you make it, they will dumb.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Seth Godin (formerly of Yahoo, I think) once said that New Yorkers who bought bottled water were fooling themselves because New York tap water is really very clean. But try telling that to the yuppies...

If you're back in the Philippines somewhere at the beach in the Visayas or Mindanao though, I'd fork out the money for bottled water. :) A friend of mine got amoebaiasis (dunno if that's spelled right) at Camiguin...