+ Life, or Something Unlike it

Man, I hate tv. I realized this today as I was watching one of the few worthwhile things on: Daria, who's about as sarcastic as myself, so she's worthy. Anyway, I was watching Daria on the misfortune of a network, "The N" which is a ridiculous anagram for the word Noggin (which I suppose that is supposed to suggest that by watching it you will be emptying said already vacated cranial cavity). So I was watching Daria, and the show was interupted by this commercial with this ugly animation of an obviously brain dead male (read: jock) scanning a cafeteria, deciding where to sit. He looks to a his sister, and then his girlfriend (or something), and decides against it. Then he spots his lonely friend and starts to head toward him when some new girl (a new piece of ass to chase) invites the sucker to eat with her. He looks to his friend and thinks hard on what to do... and goes with the chick! Of course, being such a brain dead idiot, he couldn't possibly sit with somebody that gave a crap about him.

What kind of message is this sending to our youth? Ditch your real friends for a potential sexually transmitted disease, because chasing ass and getting laid is so much more important than real friendships, or real life for that matter. Don't get me started on the piece of shit known as Degrassi, also on "the N". The show is, supposedly, about real life situations at a highschool. I keep seeing commericials where people are having cat fights, running out into the woods to do "evil" things, and making out with teachers, because of course highschool is all about the social interactions, and all that pesky school work is just a distraction. Here's my beef; the media on such bullshit networks as this and MTV (Moron TV) promotes this sort of belief, which is that highschool is nothing more than your social playground and that anybody who actually does school work is a 'geek' or 'brain' or somehow behind the 8-ball.

I was talking with my brother earlier about how people completely slack off at his school and do nothing even in the easiest classes imaginable, and how they think that it's all just a joke, like their life should revolve around their crush or next new outfit. Everywhere you look, people are worried about who likes who, who's sleeping with who, and what happened at the big date/dance/social affair of your choice. To these vapid, horrendously shallow excuses for human beings, their lives have no more meaning than the color of their lip gloss and whether or not their shoes match their bag. I can't even fathom this lack of depth. If my mind were so vacuous I would have to shoot myself. Even worse are the jackasses who actually manage to somehow make it through highschool and get accepted to a college, only to slack off and take up a place in a school that somebody else could have actually appreciated, but that's another topic entirely.

Speaking of moronic social interactions. I saw an ad for this new show called Beauty and the Geek, wherin so-called geeky guys and beautiful but vacant women are paired up and have to go through some kind of competition to win. The entire idea is insulting. It suggests that people who have brains in their heads are undesireable and that it's some burden for this beautiful women to have to date them. Toward the end of the commercial the women are all suprised that the guys actually have feelings and personalities. Why is that so surprising? You don't have to be gorgeous and brain dead to be desireable, but this is exactly what tv today promotes.

Here's a newsflash: While it's good to have social engagements and to have friends, there is more to life than what your so-called best friend said about your new Prada backpack. If you do as these piece of shit networks encourage the slowly declining minds of the youth advise you to do, the only thing you're going to have to worry about is remembering to ask if your patron wants fries with that. Your social engagements are not going to get you a job. Your popularity and how pretty or hot you can make yourself look is going to mean jack squat in the end because all your years of sun exposure in an attempt to look good is going to make you look like a Shar pei. When it comes down to it, no matter how big your boobs are or how witty you think your crude, yokel humor is, next to somebody with a college degree, you mean absolutely jack.

The networks such as "The N" and Moron TV need to catch a clue and stop encouraging these teenagers to blow off real life in lieu of what they would have you believe real life is. Real life isn't parties and drama, it's what you know and what you can do. It's how you influence others and the world around you. They think they're encouraging individuality or some crap like that, but all they're doing is producing yet another generation of mindless media-influenced drones that are too stupid to think for themselves. I guess, though, that that means another group of people too dumb to know when they're being used for media propagation and advertisement. This all plays right into the hands of the networks because the more stupid people buy into this crap, the more money they make. Congratulations, you vapid morons; you have become the newest generation of pawns.

Get me out of here!