Give Them Candy!
"Candy Everybody Wants"...that 10,000 Maniacs tune rings in my head everytime I pass the periodicals.
We are at war. Our economy has hit a dire point. We are in an election year. We are at war. Our economy has hit a dire point. We are in an election year. WE ARE AT WAR! OUR ECONOMY HAS HIT A DIRE POINT! WE ARE IN AN ELECTION YEAR!
Did you hear me? Good. Because sometimes the really important subjects are drowned out by who is handling Britney Spear's finances/body; pregnancy stomachs of the wealthy and thin; sports faqs; and relationship information of the stars- true and fabricated. I always refer to the Roman poet Juvenal in Satire X when this occurs: "... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
bread and circuses".
This time it is not the government distracting us, but our minds tht beg to be numbed from the pain of reality. In reality we are at war, our economy has hit a dire point and it is an election year. Sometimes it is hard to focus on the actual candidates because they themselves revert to frivolity. Remember Hillary's ten minute babble on renouncing and declining? She just had to say SOMETHING negative toward Obama; why not something easy on the senses and useless to the mind? I feel like my ears are full of screechings and murmurings when I read the headlines of many weekly periodicals and listen to the catch points on evening shows. I am happy that a young woman who was alienating her family due to what seems to be a mental disease is now being cared for by her family, but this doesn't really matter. I enjoy hearing news of families expanding and ushering in new members, but this doesn't matter either. If someone is trying to lose weight, I champion their health...but this also doesn't matter to me.
If these were random distractions instead of bombardments, I would not mind. But we are replacing our grown up conversations with news of the weird and star-life tidbits. I am afraid we really will become like the characters in "Idiocracy" (2006)! I don't ever want to have to go to St. God's Hospital for treatment, or Buttfu--ers Restaurant for dinner!!! And who really wants to be a descendant of Clevon?! Watch it- it may creep up on you!
You KNOW it's gotten bad if someone with a Screen Goddess Complex is saying "no mas!" If you need to detox from the 'bread and circuses' coverage on the nightly news, turn your cable channel to BBC News and watch it for about two hours. You will see stories that American media does not bother to cover because they are too busy telling us who peeked in Britney's hospital file.
We are at war. Our economy has hit a dire point. We are in an election year. We are at war. Our economy has hit a dire point. We are in an election year. WE ARE AT WAR! OUR ECONOMY HAS HIT A DIRE POINT! WE ARE IN AN ELECTION YEAR!
Did you hear me? Good. Because sometimes the really important subjects are drowned out by who is handling Britney Spear's finances/body; pregnancy stomachs of the wealthy and thin; sports faqs; and relationship information of the stars- true and fabricated. I always refer to the Roman poet Juvenal in Satire X when this occurs: "... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things:
bread and circuses".
This time it is not the government distracting us, but our minds tht beg to be numbed from the pain of reality. In reality we are at war, our economy has hit a dire point and it is an election year. Sometimes it is hard to focus on the actual candidates because they themselves revert to frivolity. Remember Hillary's ten minute babble on renouncing and declining? She just had to say SOMETHING negative toward Obama; why not something easy on the senses and useless to the mind? I feel like my ears are full of screechings and murmurings when I read the headlines of many weekly periodicals and listen to the catch points on evening shows. I am happy that a young woman who was alienating her family due to what seems to be a mental disease is now being cared for by her family, but this doesn't really matter. I enjoy hearing news of families expanding and ushering in new members, but this doesn't matter either. If someone is trying to lose weight, I champion their health...but this also doesn't matter to me.
If these were random distractions instead of bombardments, I would not mind. But we are replacing our grown up conversations with news of the weird and star-life tidbits. I am afraid we really will become like the characters in "Idiocracy" (2006)! I don't ever want to have to go to St. God's Hospital for treatment, or Buttfu--ers Restaurant for dinner!!! And who really wants to be a descendant of Clevon?! Watch it- it may creep up on you!
You KNOW it's gotten bad if someone with a Screen Goddess Complex is saying "no mas!" If you need to detox from the 'bread and circuses' coverage on the nightly news, turn your cable channel to BBC News and watch it for about two hours. You will see stories that American media does not bother to cover because they are too busy telling us who peeked in Britney's hospital file.
Labels: American Media, Bread and Circus Distractions, Candy for the Brain
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