The Easy Life

Working in an air-conditioned, modernly furnished office, complete with state-of-the-art desktop computers, off-white felt cube-wall separators, and eco-friendly water dispensers. Driving a new, well-equipped & imported car through suburban streets flushed with mildly-dense traffic. Getting home at 6:30 every night in time to order pizza or help your wife cook a light dinner & still have time to go online before prime-time t.v. hits the waves. Snuggling with your spouse on a firm but flexible sofa enchanted by the new episode of Lost. Mulling the benefits of On Demand versus regular cable while watching commercials. Averse to the planned trip to the mall Saturday to pick out furniture for the basement. Psyched about Sunday's NFL playoff game against the team you hate.

This, is the easy life.

This is why America's an immigrant's dream and why our forefathers came.

Inspired stability and financial ease, corporeal satiety, legal protection, space.

No one knows life under contrary conditions. Who needs to?

Security's an illusion we're bred in it.

If disaster or war befell America -- no one would know what to do.