| What Is Wrong With Us?
Yes, it's happened again!
The war in Iraq, the presidential campaign, the Bhutto assassination, rioting in Kenya, skyrocketing fuel prices et al have once again been toppled from the headlines by the tragic plight of Ms. Britney Spears.
Do that many of us really care to hear about this woman's troubles? Or is it just the trashy tabloids (both printed and broadcast) that are making it seem so?...These paparazzi guys are just as pathetic as she. A report I heard (because I just can't get away from hearing about it unless I turn off all TV and radio) is that a whole herd of these clowns were chasing her ambulance down the street as it departed her residence, and worse yet, there was another crowd of these jokers waiting at the hospital for her arrival, and began beating on the doors of the ambulance as it was arriving.
Hello??....Is this what America is truly interested in? We're more interested in the life of some young woman who had the world by the short hairs a few years ago and then spiralled into her Godless, self-absorbed world of self-annihilation than we are about our neighbor?
It would be one thing if this garbage were limited to the tabloids that assault us at every grocery store checkout, but I am so sick of her and her ilk being treated as mainstream headline news by ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, MSNBC and on and on....
It seems we always need someone like this in our lives. Michael Jackson was "it" for quite awhile, but now he has (thankfully) disappeared. Then we had Paris Hilton, but she's out of jail now. Do we have to have these people to make us feel good about ourselves? Do we get some sense of superiority because even though we're not rich and famous and our lives are somewhat messed up, at least we're not as screwed up as this person who is rich and famous?...Is that it?...If so, then aren't we pathetic as well?
The woman needs help, and I know the help she needs. I just pray she finds it before she ends up making the same type of headlines as Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith.
Rant over.... |