They say that there are three aspects to judging mental health. Your image of yourself, others' image of you and then the reality of what you really are.

So, I wanted to create this blog where I could continuously update all the hypocrisy I encounter in daily life in America. It's not for bashing, but observation purposes only. I think the rest of the world must think we're incredibly insane, given what we say vs. what we do.

Of course, there is a "good" and "bad" side to everything, but to push controversy in the background and forget about it does not solve any of these issues.

For instance, over 10 million adults in the United States regularly smoke marijuana. It is, technically, less dangerous than alchohol. And yet the United State federal government classifies it on the same level as opiates and other highly addictive drugs. There is a high rate of crime associated with its sale and distribution that could be completely eliminated if it were legal, not to mention all the badly needed state and federal revenue that could be accumulated by the government by taxing it the same way cigarettes and liquor is taxed.

I just don't get it. It's obvious that a major portion of the population feels it should be legalized, for compassionate medical reasons, if nothing else, and yet we continue to deny its pervasive use.

Then there is our attitude toward pornography. It is so, so illegal in so many ways, and yet I hear over and over again that the major portion of internet traffic is dedicated toward pornography in one way or another. What's with that?

And what is it about being a corporate CEO that entitles them to (sometimes) hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation per year? I can't see that anyone needs that kind of money for anything, and it's money that rightfully belongs to stockholders, and yet each tiny, individual stockholder has such a small voice that the only clout belongs to those who own a majority of the shares, which means (you guessed it) the Boards of Directors and Officers of the corporations vote their own salaries and compensation without any significant oversight.

These are just a few of the inequities I see all around me every day, and I could expound on most of them for hours and hours and hours. I would, indeed, love to hear others' views and share their experiences.