There is something wrong with a society that embraces the memoirs of a 15 year old. We've become so celebrity obsessed that it's the fame itself, not what actions garnered it, that our plebeian masses value.
Paris Hilton, when told her autobiography made The Washington Post's best-seller-list, was quoted as replying "what's The Washington Post?" No matter, she's a best selling author who is completely unaware of the existence of one of our foremost newspapers, and no one even cares. It's just another quote in a long line of inconsequential stupidity because she's a famous modern icon, someone who has come to represent what we are as a county.
Thinking of what represents our country, I realize that as great as our Constitution is, compared to Paris it isn't as quotable or likely to be pictured in dozens of magazines around the world every week. You can't turn on the TV and see The Constitution soaping its body down and shaking it's ass at the camera to sell Hardee's burgers. No one will be downloading "A Constitutional Night In Philadelphia" home-made-porno's and cumming on their keyboards over how hot they think our founding document is. Despite her gangly, skeletal body, ugly-duckling face and a vapid cranial cavity, Paris wins the popularity contest hands down.
And here we sit, often wondering why so much of the rest of the world hates us. Or worse, we don't even consider what others think unless it's full of praise, and then we threaten you with thinly-veiled threats of war saying "you're either with us or against us."
Is it really so shocking we're becoming an international pariah? Am I really so anti-American for questioning our culture and politics? Wasn't that the point of this country in the first place, the freedom to question the status-quo without being an enemy of the state for it? While Paris Hilton and George W. Bush are presumably miles apart as people, there's only a few hundred words separating them in our daily lives ...and there's something seriously wrong with that.
So now, to the point, following behind all this is soon-to-be-has-been Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) writing her own autobiography at the worldly and experienced age of 15. This poor girl, in our tabloid-obsessed culture, is the next Britney Spears, complete with soon-to-be fucked up siblings, a torrent of "shocking" headlines and a resounding "where did it all go wrong?!?" voyeurism we'll eat the fuck up in grocery store lines and online news sites. Her father will take an active role in the coming war-of-words, as does Britney's mother now, and people will care.
It's not surprising I've become obsessed with ancient history, I just don't get the world around me.
Paris Hilton, when told her autobiography made The Washington Post's best-seller-list, was quoted as replying "what's The Washington Post?" No matter, she's a best selling author who is completely unaware of the existence of one of our foremost newspapers, and no one even cares. It's just another quote in a long line of inconsequential stupidity because she's a famous modern icon, someone who has come to represent what we are as a county.
Thinking of what represents our country, I realize that as great as our Constitution is, compared to Paris it isn't as quotable or likely to be pictured in dozens of magazines around the world every week. You can't turn on the TV and see The Constitution soaping its body down and shaking it's ass at the camera to sell Hardee's burgers. No one will be downloading "A Constitutional Night In Philadelphia" home-made-porno's and cumming on their keyboards over how hot they think our founding document is. Despite her gangly, skeletal body, ugly-duckling face and a vapid cranial cavity, Paris wins the popularity contest hands down.
And here we sit, often wondering why so much of the rest of the world hates us. Or worse, we don't even consider what others think unless it's full of praise, and then we threaten you with thinly-veiled threats of war saying "you're either with us or against us."
Is it really so shocking we're becoming an international pariah? Am I really so anti-American for questioning our culture and politics? Wasn't that the point of this country in the first place, the freedom to question the status-quo without being an enemy of the state for it? While Paris Hilton and George W. Bush are presumably miles apart as people, there's only a few hundred words separating them in our daily lives ...and there's something seriously wrong with that.
So now, to the point, following behind all this is soon-to-be-has-been Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) writing her own autobiography at the worldly and experienced age of 15. This poor girl, in our tabloid-obsessed culture, is the next Britney Spears, complete with soon-to-be fucked up siblings, a torrent of "shocking" headlines and a resounding "where did it all go wrong?!?" voyeurism we'll eat the fuck up in grocery store lines and online news sites. Her father will take an active role in the coming war-of-words, as does Britney's mother now, and people will care.
It's not surprising I've become obsessed with ancient history, I just don't get the world around me.
How on earth have you lived enough to write an autobiography at the ripe old age of 15??