I WISH i could take credit for the title, but it comes from a regular column in the tabloid periodical, The St. Louis/Seattle Sinner. When i go to the diner for breakfast, and the racks are empty of the Riverfront Times (or if i've already read it), the Sinner is a entertaining alternative. It's full of incendiary opinions and offbeat amusement, and some undergroundish news from which mainstream sources like to "shelter" us.
The only reason i stole the columnist's title is that, when i think of the state of the nation and world, and then i think about the intellectual pablum we're fed by the media, i feel completely disgusted. Big things can happen in the world, and our news sources will tell us ALL about the inane goings-on of some adolescent poseur.
I assign the blame directly to those who have the most to gain from keeping us stupid, fat and happy -- the moneyed owners of almost every information and entertainment channel in the western world. They tell us only what they want us to hear and believe, and the sad thing is, it often works. You've no idea how many people think they're hearing Truth from "Faux News." Mass distraction, indeed.
And people willingly consume this drivel. "Reality shows" -- which are anything but -- clog the time-slots that used to be host to works of actual cleverness, imagination, ingenuity, ... TALENT. Some may argue that "creators" are only giving the public what it wants, but i don't believe it for a moment; they're merely filling the over-expanded "airways" with the cheapest products they can get away with -- kinda like breakfast-cereal manufacturers....
Not long ago, i was ranting about the trivial "problems" which had been presented for serious discussion.... I earnestly hope -- now that we all know that it's safe to drink distilled water -- that these people may turn their minds to something of a little more substance.
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