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Britney Spears Stumbles, Nearly Drops Baby
When a ditzy, redneck, manufactured pop icon makes the news for almost dropping her kid because she tripped on her designer pants, something is SERIOUSLY wrong with the world and the media. The reality is (how you like that one Tim!) that it’s not even Brittany Spears fault. Do you think she could even remotely conjure up her celebrity status? I don’t even think she could spell her name, much less sell millions of records. No, it’s not Brittany’s fault. This is the fault of the American people! God bless us…
We want to see Brittany or Michael Jackson drop their kids. We want to hear about famous people flipping out and joining cults or having silent births (yeah, right) or having affairs and marrying each other’s spouses. We’re addicted to this crap. We’d rather hear about the newest bullcrap with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt than who died in the war or in Sao Paulo during the recent police riots. Who cares about how many people died in Darfur or how many people are starving worldwide. We want to know what’s happening with pretty people who act out characters in movies or TV or play and sing music (or try to do either).
I’m sure there is a million reasons why this is the case but I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that we always want what we can’t have and because we can’t have it, we feel entitled to be a part of it ANY WAY WE CAN. We want to be rich and famous. We want to have beautiful people to have sex with anytime we want. We want status and power and freedom. And if we can’t have that, then damn it, we want to know every detail of “their” lives in return! It’s our right as the poor and middle class. Right?
I’m here to tell you that this is all a lie. The media is lying to us. It’s not what it appears to be. Life is not better “on the other side”. They take our money and feed us complete crap. There is no choice. If you are alive and breathing you get force fed this mindless drama everyday. You WILL get your daily dose of violence from TV or rap music. You will get your daily dose of nudity and skin while checking your e-mails. You WILL get your daily dose of drama-ridden nonsense about actors, musicians and famous business people behaving badly. And you’ll like it! Sure, you might want to turn the channel, but you won’t. You’ll sit there on the couch and wish you had their lives. You’ll ask yourself again and again what you did wrong to have a 9-5 and not be on the French Riviera with a bottle of expensive wine, a Gucci model (who’s name is Keena, of course) and 20 reporters in helicopters circling above trying to get a picture of your bare ass.
The point is that I think it’s gone WAY, WAY too far. In my opinion (and in the opinion of many more educated people than I) we will NEVER grow as a peaceful and more intelligent society unless we send a message to mainstream media that there are many more important things in the world than Brittany, her baby and that goofy white rapper she married.
In the words of the future-seeing Edward R. Murrow:
“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
They say, “any press is good press”. Brittany, you just got your for the week. You’re now back our thoughts for ahwile. What a mastermind you are!
Good Night and Good Luck,
-Steve
When a ditzy, redneck, manufactured pop icon makes the news for almost dropping her kid because she tripped on her designer pants, something is SERIOUSLY wrong with the world and the media. The reality is (how you like that one Tim!) that it’s not even Brittany Spears fault. Do you think she could even remotely conjure up her celebrity status? I don’t even think she could spell her name, much less sell millions of records. No, it’s not Brittany’s fault. This is the fault of the American people! God bless us…
We want to see Brittany or Michael Jackson drop their kids. We want to hear about famous people flipping out and joining cults or having silent births (yeah, right) or having affairs and marrying each other’s spouses. We’re addicted to this crap. We’d rather hear about the newest bullcrap with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt than who died in the war or in Sao Paulo during the recent police riots. Who cares about how many people died in Darfur or how many people are starving worldwide. We want to know what’s happening with pretty people who act out characters in movies or TV or play and sing music (or try to do either).
I’m sure there is a million reasons why this is the case but I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that we always want what we can’t have and because we can’t have it, we feel entitled to be a part of it ANY WAY WE CAN. We want to be rich and famous. We want to have beautiful people to have sex with anytime we want. We want status and power and freedom. And if we can’t have that, then damn it, we want to know every detail of “their” lives in return! It’s our right as the poor and middle class. Right?
I’m here to tell you that this is all a lie. The media is lying to us. It’s not what it appears to be. Life is not better “on the other side”. They take our money and feed us complete crap. There is no choice. If you are alive and breathing you get force fed this mindless drama everyday. You WILL get your daily dose of violence from TV or rap music. You will get your daily dose of nudity and skin while checking your e-mails. You WILL get your daily dose of drama-ridden nonsense about actors, musicians and famous business people behaving badly. And you’ll like it! Sure, you might want to turn the channel, but you won’t. You’ll sit there on the couch and wish you had their lives. You’ll ask yourself again and again what you did wrong to have a 9-5 and not be on the French Riviera with a bottle of expensive wine, a Gucci model (who’s name is Keena, of course) and 20 reporters in helicopters circling above trying to get a picture of your bare ass.
The point is that I think it’s gone WAY, WAY too far. In my opinion (and in the opinion of many more educated people than I) we will NEVER grow as a peaceful and more intelligent society unless we send a message to mainstream media that there are many more important things in the world than Brittany, her baby and that goofy white rapper she married.
In the words of the future-seeing Edward R. Murrow:
“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
They say, “any press is good press”. Brittany, you just got your for the week. You’re now back our thoughts for ahwile. What a mastermind you are!
Good Night and Good Luck,
-Steve
posted by Steve at 2:02 PM
2 Comments:
Good Britney fugging here: http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/
The media keeps shoving it all in our faces and if we don't keep up we feel like we've missed something. I've really been making an effort in the last few months to not care as much. I haven't bought a magazine in over two months. Not even People's Most "beautiful" and Danica Patrick was in it! If I buy a magazine it'll be Relevant, Radiant, or something about knitting.
"If you are alive and breathing you get force fed this mindless drama everyday." no sh*te, brokeback. you rant on the same themes over, and over, & over again, nothing of which is new to anyone who possesses anything above a 4th-grade reading level. the media lies? our self-created cultural dieties are without inherent value? we're a slow-down-and-glimpse-the-car-accident culture? next thing you're gonna tell me is that the U.S. consumes too much processed food. ye gods, how about some insight on something original here, puke?
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