At What Point... ??

Me and my honey were watching a show on cable last night, Livin the Low Life with Vida Guerra. Some of you will be familiar but if your not, it’s a car show that looks at the lowriding culture from showing the types of lowriders, to the painters, builders, etc. And believe you me, there are some HOT cars on that show.(and Vida’s not bad to look at either, somedays…LOL)

Now, I’m an old school kinda gal.. something about a classic hotrod that just turns a sista on.. BUT not the fully decked out, rimmed out, cycadelic paint job types…but classy, restored, basic, one color paint or even candy painted…and nothing is wrong with rims it’s just getting a little ridiculous now-a-days.. to sum it all up…NOTHING TOO FLASHY..

But, back to the point of this blog.. in watching this show, you see some really slick cars and creative designs.. and of course the insides are decked out with DVD’s, a music system, and sometimes even a gaming system.. (you’d see that more so on the other car show Unique Cars) .. but me and my honey got to talking and he stated he’s seen a car with TV’s on the outside of the car.. on the doors!!!! Ok, let me repeat that! TV’s on the outside of the car doors….WTF!?!

Now, I’m quite an emotional, passionate person with certain subjects and when he described this car to me, and I’m picturing this car rolling around town, I find myself shaking my head and wondering at what point in HISTORY, in LIFE did we CREATE this NEED to be flashy, showing off, and “mine is better than yours..”? I ask this completely being aware of the fact that everyone likes to have nice things and everyone likes to be able to show their hard work has paid off. BUT DAMN!

So the more and more I tried to determine where in history WE adopted this way of living/thinking, the more my heart began to hurt..SILLY?, I suppose but I feel deeply about OUR PEOPLE and OUR POTENTIAL GREATNESS that witnessing some of the ignorant things we do, just hurts my heart and angers me at times.

So, what do you think? When did we become this way? What will break us from it? Just inquiring…