What is it with so many frustrated types living in the “reality” shows of today? I guess it’s a kind of voyeurism, a Peeping Tom complex that lies dormant in us and then is awakened to action when titillated.
Who gives a ratsass if Kim Kardashian got married? She’s a pretty girl with a good body, granted, and she’s married now to this beanpole. Who cares what narcicisstic antic Paris Hilton is currently into? What have Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton contributed to the betterment of the world? If they are so clever as to glean all this publicity and garner followers sighing at their every move, couldn’t they do something of constructive value?
Maggie Furlong, on AOL TV wrote an amusing column about the planned four-hour Kardashian wedding and what alternatives you might have. One choice in that time span was to take sixteen showers. Not a bad idea…
Publicity seeking is a disease. Some avid seekers are successful. Look at Madonna. She may be out in space some part of the time, but she has made a contribution to the world in her art of singing and acting. That gives her a few credentials for opinions, even if some seem wacky. Or Lady Gaga---offbeat but talented.
In England they are as nutso as we about “reality” programs. One of the biggest is “Big Brother” where a bunch of lowlifes live together and the camera records every moment of their action, except perhaps going to the bathroom—and that may be on the agenda later.
Thoreau said it more than a hundred years ago: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” And to watch a gaggle of publicity hounds avidly sniffing their way to notoriety is, to me, quiet desperation.
But then I am a bit of a curmudgeon.
Big Brother is can't miss summer viewing at our house. You're an elitist.
ReplyDeleteThey'll go away in a few seasons. It's who we are. We're fickle and will demand something altogether different soon.
ReplyDeleteHaha...Beanpole! You're too much Mr. Flesh, I love it!
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