What is it with these reality shows and their ability to sink their claws into us? They are like a hardcore narcotic — you know you shouldn’t do it (watch it) and you tell yourself “I’ll just try it this once,” and the next thing you know you’re completely addicted! I have had my fair share of battling these beasts myself. I watched the ‘original reality show,’ the ‘Real World,’ and I even got sucked into watching a marathon of ‘America’s Next Top Model’ with my girlfriend one day (NEVER AGAIN!).
But I never realized the true power of their grip until a couple weeks ago. I was flipping through the channels when I saw ‘A Shot of Love With Tila Tequila’ about to start. I instantly knew that this was the peak of a long string of the stupidest TV shows ever known to mankind, yet, I started to watch it. As I watched it I realized more and more how ridiculous this show was, yet more and more … I couldn’t stop watching it. I knew that it was a perfect example of how completely disturbed our mainstream media can be and why other countries looking in at us from the outside think we are so ‘lost’! How could you not after watching these reality shows! Now, don’t get me wrong, Tila seems like a sweetheart with an angelic smile, but what kind of values are we teaching our children when we find it more important to find out who she finds Love with, or even WORSE, what Hugh Hefner’s three girlfriends do on a daily basis, than how many of our people have died in Iraq, or whether or not there is a child who’s going to go to sleep hungry and cold tonight, OR the fact that our entire social-economic system is on the verge of a ‘bridge like’ collapse?
I am not claiming to be a saint, nor do I preach any religion, but it seems to me that we have strayed too far off of the path. Yes, life is for living and everything is an experience, but we do have a responsibility in this life to make well-thought-out decisions regarding the care and well-being of our people, communities and nations, and carry them out to completion. Instead, it seems that our ‘governments’ are doing the best job EVER of robbing us blind, while we sit ‘hypnotized’ to these ‘UNREALITY’ TV shows. What really bothers me is that our government, mainly the hardcore republican businessmen, who own and run our country, claim that we are a nation of moral do-gooders who need to purge the rest of the world of their evil ways. Well, for a ‘Christian Country,’ we sure do a lot of sinning! In fact, is there a government out there at all that is leading the way to a better world? I would have to say that the governments of the world are constantly fucking up the work that people ARE doing to make this world a better place!
I think the sad truth is that since the days of Christ people have been using Jesus’ name to their own evil ends. Kinda like when George W Bush declared to the world that ‘we’ as a ‘Christian Nation’ were going to defeat the ‘Axis of Evil’ over in the Middle East. HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE? Way to add fuel to the fire numb-nutz!!!!! I mean, do you think that if Jesus came back today that he would go, “Wow, American government, you’re really doing a great job of spreading the good word! Way to represent me and everything I taught my disciples!” I DON’T THINK SO!!! It wouldn’t be so bad if that’s what was actually happening, but when one of our government’s OWN renown economists finally breaks down and says “we are in Iraq for the oil,” you know the cat’s outta the bag!!!!!
Now the Ying to the Yang, the Smiley to the Grim, I saw a GREAT show on TV last night called ‘THE HENRY ROLLINS SHOW.’ WATCH IT!!!!! He interviewed a couple of American ‘Iraqi’ veterans. I don’t care how republican or conservative you are, if you don’t feel, after watching that episode, that we need some serious checks and balances on our current government, and ESPECIALLY its stance on foreign affairs, then you are either completely brainwashed or just plain frightened of change.
Justin~
P.S I know of one Rock & Roll band called Missing Dave who saw this whole thing coming with their song “Reality Show Junkie”!!!!!
