If it's Gourmet, it must be good!

I was looking at a gardening catalog and came across the most riduculous thing of the day. What hip-recycling-cloth grocerybag-carrying-never drink out of a styrofoam cup-green-loving-Hummer driver wouldn't love to have their very own gourmet compost bin? Yes, folks. You can be the talk of the neighborhood! The envy of everyone in the country club if you throw your gourmet leftovers into a beautiful rated #1 in America, garden gourmet composter. You can start your own gardening "Must-have" trend that far surpasses the Jones meager compost drum or the awful compost tire-stacked-eye-sore from down the street. This is not just any attractive black plastic composter cause they put the word "gourmet" in the name so that must mean something. Right? And what's even more impressive is the fact that it was seen on the Oprah Winfrey show. Oh, that seals the deal, right there! If Oprah smiled on it then that's enough for me! I mean come on people...It's Compost--the backyard gardener's gold and fits neatly into almost any available backyard space thanks to its efficient design. Just look at that beauty! http://www.gardengourmet.com/ Do you see that sleek design? You know that the compost rotting in that bin is gonna be better than everyone else! It must be...it's gourmet!

Now, don't misunderstand me. I am a supporter of composting and I will be the first to tell you all the valuable benefits. However, it made me think about the nature of humans. How most of us are so surface-thinking that pretty positive words make us believe anything. That's why commercials are so valuable to the corporate world. We are like sheep or maybe more like lemmas. That is why we elect the sad-excuses for "gourmet" to run our government. We are mesmerized by positive pretty words like stimulus or recovery. Let's face the truth, people! Wake up and smell the "gourmet" roses! As Shakespeare said, "A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet." The container may look nice and it may be the talk of the Oprah show but get close to it and take a big whiff! Compost smells just as bad no matter how you package it.