Mourn The Loss
Our country was hit with another devastating loss yesterday. One of our national treasures has left this fleshy existence and gone on to meet her maker. Her passing will certainly leave a gigantic vacuum that will take virtually no time to fill but that is the way it goes in our nation of celebrity wanna bees. Yes, I am talking about Anna Nichole Smith. Her passing will leave a nation weeping with sadness. I just wish I knew which nation.
Americans and to a lesser extent, the rest of the industrialized nations, have developed an appetite for eaves dropping on people that are famous. They do not have to be famous for any good reason like the aforementioned Anna Nichole Smith (what is up with the three word name) and to a greater extent the amateur porn star, turned reality TV star, party girl, turned pop star Paris Hilton. Talk about wasting time on something totally worthless.
To give you some kind of perspective on how pathetic this worship of the “famous for no actual reason” has progressed, a poll was done asking both young and old alike two questions. The first question was who discovered the polio vaccine? Many of the older people rattled the answer off like it was their last name. A sizable percentage of the young people asked what polio was. None of the youth knew the answer. The answer they were looking for is Jonas Salk but I would have accepted Albert Sabin also. The second question was who is Nichole Richie’s side kick? The children all answered that one correctly and most of the adults. I pray the adults are just aware of their surroundings and not actually watching the trash or reading the tabloids. I may just be dreaming. We can rattle off the name of the heiress turned attention whore but we cannot name the man that cured one of man’s most devastating diseases. Somebody shoot me.
We waste so much time and effort on this pursuit of the worthless effort that I wonder how anything gets done. I guess the technology allows us to waste the time we spent in transit. Before the cell phone, you listened to the radio while you drove. Now you can surf the net, play video games and have a group conversation while driving to work. What will they thing of next?
Icool
Cobb
Americans and to a lesser extent, the rest of the industrialized nations, have developed an appetite for eaves dropping on people that are famous. They do not have to be famous for any good reason like the aforementioned Anna Nichole Smith (what is up with the three word name) and to a greater extent the amateur porn star, turned reality TV star, party girl, turned pop star Paris Hilton. Talk about wasting time on something totally worthless.
To give you some kind of perspective on how pathetic this worship of the “famous for no actual reason” has progressed, a poll was done asking both young and old alike two questions. The first question was who discovered the polio vaccine? Many of the older people rattled the answer off like it was their last name. A sizable percentage of the young people asked what polio was. None of the youth knew the answer. The answer they were looking for is Jonas Salk but I would have accepted Albert Sabin also. The second question was who is Nichole Richie’s side kick? The children all answered that one correctly and most of the adults. I pray the adults are just aware of their surroundings and not actually watching the trash or reading the tabloids. I may just be dreaming. We can rattle off the name of the heiress turned attention whore but we cannot name the man that cured one of man’s most devastating diseases. Somebody shoot me.
We waste so much time and effort on this pursuit of the worthless effort that I wonder how anything gets done. I guess the technology allows us to waste the time we spent in transit. Before the cell phone, you listened to the radio while you drove. Now you can surf the net, play video games and have a group conversation while driving to work. What will they thing of next?
Icool
Cobb
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