Journalism. It was my one true dream as a child… to be able to write and inform the public of events that occurred in their very own backyards without the slightest inclination that any of these humble or conversely, horrifying stories told could be about your neighbor, your friend, your mate. The twist was implied but not revealed. It was left to the reader to interpret… not like now, not these days. Today, most embrace the largest of news pimps and bloggers. Fox news is no different than the idiot that posted panty shot of a 17 year old. I didn’t see it but it sounded crude and hot. We don’t want to think about it, we want to see the video. Americans these days need that blunt slap to the face to feel… we sell complacence and business is booming. In the 1960’s, well before I was born, there were reasons that the citizens of this country felt outrage, betrayal and so on. Now those same emotions are brought about by rumors, innuendo and flat out lies. We love this in much the same way we love our television.
The virtual babysitter, teacher and confident leads the majority of living mammals by the beak. It’s like having a dog that is constantly on a leash, eventually it becomes accustomed to the collar and will go any where you lead. Try it. It works… even on humans. I have 2 dogs that I have inadvertently done this to as well as my wife doing it to me on purpose. We are trainable. That’s what separates us from the amoeba (no offense to amoebas… I hope the ACLU lawyers don’t google search amoebas and find this).
I loathe the way that when I begin writing something meaningful it turns in some dark, pornographic tale of politics and horse shit. But yet here we are… again. The people who used to argue about Obama being the answer and George being the anti-Christ (which there is no way that Bush can be the anti-Christ as he is described as being much taller) now stay quiet.
Through the bail out, health care bill and so forth they seem to simply accept it as the way things need to progress and have no rationale for it. This kind of division would cause bloody civil wars in most countries but we have grown far too fat and lazy to do so.
It’s much too easy to judge, critique and battle via the internet… there are no real consequences other than censorship or having your account deleted. Go to Mexico or Africa and try to pull that same shit with a crazed opponent coming at you with a machete. Not so much.
We used to have a constitution, now we do not. We were designed as a republic and now we are a democracy. It’s curious, much like the strange pimple on my left shoulder that never seems to go away. My wife and I have tried to pop this thing for 4 years straight and it continues rear its little white head. Menacing… laughing while our efforts to enable change accomplish nothing but I digress.
Point is, without truly researching and changing the core of our society’s being we have been able to rewrite history in just a few short years. What need have we for honest and factual banter when you can simply sit, smoke some grass and come up with a completely alternative to the truth. Fiction is a shit ton more entertaining and convenient.
So to this end I say, piss on you Wikipedia and the like. Twitter and Facebook can go straight to hell. Oh and while I'm at it, the reality T.V. that is our media can just plain fuck off. It's all a short cut to thinking that the crazed majority do not seem to mind. I don’t care if Lindsay Lohan goes to jail or if Mel Gibson is a complete psycho, I want to know how and when the government is going to insert that electronic chip in my head so they can flip a switch and make me eat, go to sleep, feel like beating an innocent bystander or even better… wait a tick… I just described television. Silly me.
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