Beem Weeks's Blog - Posts Tagged "stupidity"
Famous For Nada
You know the names--even if you've never watched the shows. Honey Boo-Boo, Kim Khardashian and family, Snookie and J-Woww. These are the current crop of "people" making money in the recently invented world of Reality Television--though it's far from real. What people won't do for fame today!
I refuse to watch these idiots-on-parade programs, but I am aware they exist. What little I have seen shocks me. Not the content itself, mind you, but that there's actually a viewing audience faithfully tuning in each week. What would tempt grown men and women into watching a little piglet mumble and squeal about how wonderful she truly is? And yet that's what happens. Honey Boo-Boo even scored a larger audience last season than the brilliantly written and acted AMC series Breaking Bad.
What happens when said little piglet reaches maturity as a wallowing sow and suddenly nobody cares what's going on around her trough? Honey Oink-Oink is being set up for a serious letdown once she realizes she's a train wreck--not a talented star!
That's another point of contention for me: What exactly is Kim Khardashian's talent? What are the Khardashian's known for--besides being well-paid parasites? I lost all respect for Bruce Jenner--a one-time hero to me--long ago. A recent TV commercial posed the question: Who is your favorite Khardashian? Mine is Robert Kardashian, the father of that talentless brood. Why Robert? Because he's dead. Harsh, sure--I don't wish death on anybody--but I'm tired of seeing these parasitic grubs feeding off the stupidity of dumbed-down Americans.
And speaking of stupidity, just what the hell is a "Snookie" anyway? This strange little rat-like creature crawled up out of a New Jersey sewer line and quickly found work on MTV. She and her pack of fellow rodents gnawed their way into the scarcely working brains of Zombie Nation--oh, wait, I don't want to give Zombies a bad reputaion. My point is: There is no point to garbage.
So, America, I ask you: Why? Why would anybody bother with this trash? Why would we, a supposedly civil nation, encourage this sort of mindless sludge?
The days of well-written, well-acted series television are over. The Learning Channel once offered quality, educational, intelligent programming. Now, they give us Honey Boo-Boo, Toddlers & Tiaras, and Mega-Couponers. (TLC, Totally Lame Crap.) A&E--officially called Arts & Entertainment--promises an exciting season this year on Duck Dynasty! Discovery Channel, The History Channel: We're drowning in garbage. The dumbing-down of America continues. Stop supporting your own demise, people. But you won't. Why? Because only in America are people free to be stupid--and get paid for it!
I refuse to watch these idiots-on-parade programs, but I am aware they exist. What little I have seen shocks me. Not the content itself, mind you, but that there's actually a viewing audience faithfully tuning in each week. What would tempt grown men and women into watching a little piglet mumble and squeal about how wonderful she truly is? And yet that's what happens. Honey Boo-Boo even scored a larger audience last season than the brilliantly written and acted AMC series Breaking Bad.
What happens when said little piglet reaches maturity as a wallowing sow and suddenly nobody cares what's going on around her trough? Honey Oink-Oink is being set up for a serious letdown once she realizes she's a train wreck--not a talented star!
That's another point of contention for me: What exactly is Kim Khardashian's talent? What are the Khardashian's known for--besides being well-paid parasites? I lost all respect for Bruce Jenner--a one-time hero to me--long ago. A recent TV commercial posed the question: Who is your favorite Khardashian? Mine is Robert Kardashian, the father of that talentless brood. Why Robert? Because he's dead. Harsh, sure--I don't wish death on anybody--but I'm tired of seeing these parasitic grubs feeding off the stupidity of dumbed-down Americans.
And speaking of stupidity, just what the hell is a "Snookie" anyway? This strange little rat-like creature crawled up out of a New Jersey sewer line and quickly found work on MTV. She and her pack of fellow rodents gnawed their way into the scarcely working brains of Zombie Nation--oh, wait, I don't want to give Zombies a bad reputaion. My point is: There is no point to garbage.
So, America, I ask you: Why? Why would anybody bother with this trash? Why would we, a supposedly civil nation, encourage this sort of mindless sludge?
The days of well-written, well-acted series television are over. The Learning Channel once offered quality, educational, intelligent programming. Now, they give us Honey Boo-Boo, Toddlers & Tiaras, and Mega-Couponers. (TLC, Totally Lame Crap.) A&E--officially called Arts & Entertainment--promises an exciting season this year on Duck Dynasty! Discovery Channel, The History Channel: We're drowning in garbage. The dumbing-down of America continues. Stop supporting your own demise, people. But you won't. Why? Because only in America are people free to be stupid--and get paid for it!
