A few days ago while skimming through news and the celebrity gossip I landed on a headline that read “Snooki’s book becomes a New York Times Best Seller”. It took me a while to fathom what I had just read while waiting for someone who would recant the statement. For those of you fortunate souls, who’re not aware of who Snooki is or those of you who have not lowered your IQ by watching Jersey shore, let me introduce you to it.
Basically, MTV has come up with a show where they pay people to party, wear clothes worth more than a normal person’s salary, make a fool of themselves and talk about how miserable their life is since their boyfriend decided to dump them because they were cheating on them. I mean, I’m not trying to raze the people working on the show, it’s their job. But what are we, as Americans, watching? I was thirty seconds into the show, right after the beginning titles, and I wanted to expose the person who composed the ‘title song’ to a macabre scenario. I will not include the lyrics because it’s not school appropriate but is that what American teenagers are being taught? That you can get money by fighting with your boyfriend, partying and wearing nice clothes? How is that even possible in the real world? When United States is suffering through the juggernaut of failed economy, this is what is being saturated into the minds of America’s teenagers. This show has clearly sloughed human intellect and reasoning by creating an irrefutable degree of stupidity.
It was five minutes into the show, and I was lackadaisical already and had decided I was never going to watch this show again. I mean these people were arrantly fighting like cats and dogs not willing to conciliate and people apparently seem to enjoy it. I would rather watch a wrestling match than hear Snooki exacerbate at her boyfriend about how terrible of a human being he is. Concept of a delightful badinage is out of their dictionary. If I wanted to watch guys wear designer jeans, fuzzy looking jackets and tight zipper shirts I’d rather watch a modeling campaign than spend an hour looking at the guys in the show who quite frankly look like puffed chickens to me. It has took us millions of years to evolve from apes to the human beings we are today but once you look at the peacock shaped hair of people from Jersey Shore you try to figure out the difference evolution has made. Not only is this show easy to portend but also has a fatuous storyline and is marked by a paucity of original ideas.
Ten minutes into the show and a commercial break follows. I don’t ever recall myself being so glad for a commercial break. After putting up with ten minutes of yelling, screaming, drama and just plain old stupidity I decided to turn the TV off and tackle my APUSH homework. What terrifies me although is the fact that these very people also have a right to vote in our country. No wonder people like Sarah Palin get enough courage to preach their supposedly wise opinions. It’s because there are people like Snooki outsmart her in stupidity with her litany of things that make her life terrible. We wonder why people mock America’s intelligence when we have made a movie, silly bands and other merchandise for a singer, if you may call him that, named Justin Bieber, a show about partying and drinking called Jersey Shore, turned Snooki’s book into a New York Times Best seller and have a probable presidential candidate named Sarah Palin. Well done America, we have a bright future stored ahead of us.
I know some of you watch this show and this was not written to attack you individually or to express my saturnine temperament towards you, trust me I don’t hate you, but it really is hard for me to comprehend why any normal human being would waste an hour of their life on such low standard entertainment that drops your intelligence a couple of echelons. What I have alleged might not be the whole truth but this is what it seemed like to me. Honestly, I wish I could somehow countermand the time I wasted watching this show.
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