We watch too much TV. I am so tired of ET and extra. It's just become too much. What’s more important, Janet Jackson secretly giving birth to a child 18 years ago, or the fact that we as a culture find it necessary to know the status of kin from a flasher? Are we more concerned with Tom Cruise’s sexual identity or the several adopted children and future blood-child of his? Does any of this change the state of your life, or help you acquire that skill or trade which would fulfill your otherwise barren life? Didn’t you know that we should be watching a sex-addict’s syndicated gossip show about what didn’t look good on this week’s celebrity?
So we have to figure out where this cultural-garbage disposal leads to, and where all the trash is coming from. Shall we say that the stars who entertain us that we obsess over are to blame? After all it if they did not want the prying eyes to follow them and give them public examinations worse than a prostate exam they would fall from the public eye and stay away from our stories on the small and large screen… that’s a crock of shit and you know it. We can blame the media who, for most Americans from our neighbors in the north, to those Americans south of the Rio Grande acts as our eyes and ears for matters occurring further than a block away from our homes and grocery stores. They’re as guilty as the stars they report on- if we didn’t eat it like starving children, they would report on something else… It’s our fault obsessed with Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff. It's our fault news junkie. We are the source of this bullshit. We stalk these people by proxy with paparazzi, who never came to your house for dinner, never mowed your lawn, and never ran over your dog that morning they escaped from your backyard while you were watching Matt Lauer & Katie
We are the source and destination of all this garbage I have to swim through each day. Of course we react by claiming, “It’s not our fault, we’re addicted to television!” well that’s just bullshit. Is it Mars candy factory’s fault we couldn’t dispose of that Snicker’s bar wrapper properly? Is it McDonald’s fault most americans are over-weight because we don’t have common sense regardless what advertising they throw out there? Is it RJ Reynolds Tobacco’s fault cigarette habit causes nasty build up of cigarette butts lining our city streets (that’s the disgusting part of that habit by the way, not the smoking itself)? No! It’s our fault this shit happens because we have no self-control, we worship the television and movies screens and the people on them because we were raised by an absentee mother & father & a faulty cathode-ray tube. Now you’re an adult because some asshole in Washington D.C. un-effectively blocked those under 13 years of age from the internet, so take some responsibility and find something interesting about your partner in life. Find something interesting to learn, to do, to see, to create, stop obsessing about all these egomaniacs who get in your face and then bitch about how they have no privacy once you’re good n’ obsessed…
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