As I Lay Living, or How Ken Burns Made Me Feel Morally Superior to Californians on Environmental Issues (Specifically San Francisco)
by admin - October 19th, 2009.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Last night I watched the first two segments of Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America’s Greatest Idea and want to salute John Muir (pictured below). I admire him because he told President Theodore Roosevelt that he was full of himself on a private camping trip in Yosemite National Park and founded the Sierra Club. Ken Burns invented dramatically panning over pictures for documentaries. I am currently sitting cross-legged in the library reading a book on psycholinguistics while sipping on a juice box.
So why do I fell superior to those snow-owl-loving hybrid-driving gluten-free sourdough individuals of San Francisco? Hetch Hetchy is why. It is a valley in Yosemite National Park that is now under water to provide non-bottled water to San Francisco. President Wilson had the dam built because he is an idiot and his shit is all messed up. The water has unusually high levels of smug and hypocrisy. They don’t really need to use it, they are just lazy.
The documentary is amazing and makes me want to become a park ranger. I looked into it and found out I need a degree in forestry/conservation or a related field to get a job. I might just become a mountain-man anyway.