Alienation

My cousin goes to the Community College tomorrow at 7:20 am and he was supposed to work tonight. Life is so packed for some people here!

I had a quite interesting day, at 9 am my uncle (who works in Real Estate) awoke me to go check a house that a Chinese guy is selling to a Mexican guy. He says that the big investors of the time are Chinese people. Then we went to eat at a place called Denny's, where food is greasy and not that cheap, but you get all the calories you need for the day, and after we went to his office from where my cousin picked me up. The office was empty, I'd say ten percent of the places where occupied. My uncle says that there is no jobs after the financial crisis.

With my cousin we went to the supposedly Old Sacramento which is just an scenery of what they created as "the old city" because all that stuff would have been where today is Downtown which is full of buildings. Instead, the "Old Sac" is just by the freeway, so it's easy to access for those who go visit "historical places" that is just a shopping area. I even saw a Hotel in one of the boats in the river.
That made me think of the "Osho Ashram" located in Pune, India, where most of the people come from the U.S. to stay in a resort-like Ashram paying a fortune. But unlike any other real Ashram I can imagine, in the Osho Ashram you need to pass an HIV-Aids exam to be accepted (because according to Osho's philosophy you can have as much sex as you want until you get tired of it and then you start developing your spiritual side) and there is a bar where, after the Yoga sessions and all that stuff, you can go for a drink and meet people. At least that's what it is said in the video they present you when you go visit for the first time.

I'm amazed by the way this country works, but I haven't fully understood the mechanism. A big part of it is the way people is fooled. I bought a bear nail for one dollar, it looks exactly like a real one if not because there is a sticker that says "made in china". I just burned it on one side to prove myself that nobody is killing bears to take his nails. Of course it smelled like plastic, but it looks so real that even with the "made in china" sticker I wasn't totally sure that it was plastic. At least there is no problem about bears being killed, but it really fools people.
Oh, and in that same place there was a guy buying a wig. He was trying many different ones and after some time I walked near him and he was asking his companion, who could have been his girlfriend or just a female friend, if the one he was trying at that moment was okay. He said something like "this looks more like my real hair right?"

Oh!!! And we went to a Scientology Center!!! Exactly the same shit than the one at Madrid I visited some months ago but everything was in English instead of Spanish. They offered me to switch the languaje to Spanish though, but we kept English because my cousin is more fluent in it. Crazy, it a marketing experience applied to religion.

This is all a fraud. People in the other side of the world imagine California as being the paradise because of its series and movies and then you come to see that life is totally different from that image.
At homes people here will use any kind of chemical products for everything, from allergies, headaches, kill weeds in the yards, kill insects, grow plants... Of course, cancer rates are growing exponentially and heart diseases too. People eat lots of calories, have energy drinks, spend fortunes on anything and live enslaved from the moment they get their first job and engage in a 30 years credit to pay a house to live. I understand now why so many Mexicans come here, build their houses in Mexico, and then go back there to live without all the stress and nonsense of this country.
Being at the Scientology Center I started a discussion with the clerk person on why there is so many crazy homeless people in the streets and he said that it's just people who "gave up". Just that! People who gave up!
"Give up from what???" I replied, "from the horrible pressure of the American life-style? Did they gave up the fight against the system? Is it necessary to live in an eternal fight to keep going? There is never rest?"

This system is playing with the psychology of their own population. I had never fully understood the world "alienated" until now being here and observing around.