Everything in pill form.

My brother and I watch a ton of stupid television. Besides being an outlet for a good laugh, you also get really really stupid commercials, and stupid products behind said commercials.

For instance, there's the Baby Bullet, FROM THE MAKERS OF MAGIC BULLET, which makes all your baby food from nice fresh produce, and "saves money not buying all those jars", which since produce is up 600% anyway, makes that argument completely moot.

Or there's any variation of machines you strap around your waist, and the "electrodes wake the muscles up and make them work" while you sit on your ass. Never mind those backbreaking crunches that have never broken a back a day in anyone's life, all you have to do is sit on your ass to get that shredded body.

Even better, there's a program out there that allows you to eat whatever you want, work out like five minutes a day, and you can lose an inordinate amount of weight. Even though that was on one of those 3 AM infomercials(That I got accustomed to while working on my script), it still counts.

Let's go one further. How about any of a number of get rich quick schemes that promise that you make $300,000 in one month, and only 5 hours of work a week.

In other words, if there is zero work involved, no sweat required, or little effort needed, the product is a guarantee top seller.

And this is exactly where my blog title comes into play. My buddy Greg(An actor buddy of mine that I'll bring up later) said it best. Society wants everything in pill form. They don't want to put forth true effort, or blood, sweat, and tears. They want it all easy, and all right now.

Even the entertainment world has fallen into this trap. While there are still the usual struggles to get ahead, there are also easier ways. You can go the way of Nicole Polizzi or Mike Sorrentino, AKA Snooki and The Situation. Simply go on one of a number of reality shows(cheaper production values, so the network doesn't have to put on real television), make sure said show uses zero IQ points so that the majority of the population understands the show, and/or gets a laugh out of hotheads that think they can fight, or women that can't shut their mouths.

You truly want to know what's wrong with our country? It's not the rich people holding the lesser people back(biggest myth ever concocted), or politicians not looking out for people, or any of a number of excuses.

It's that the United States of America, which was once built from blood, sweat, guts, and guile, a country that was built on the back of people with unlimited determination, and blisters on their feet, has now accepted that you can lose weight without effort, gain muscle without the pain, cook five course meals in seven minutes, and make a ton of cash without the work ethic. They have also accepted that we are 24th in the world in standardized testing, behind some third world countries, and barely blink.

So what do we do? I could spend hours going over the same stuff that I've written in other blogs, but I won't this time. I'm just going to take a quote from a favorite movie of mine.

"Get busy living, or get busy dying" - Red from Shawshank Redemption

When the majority of this country is ready to start living again, call me.