We're All Victims Apparently...

I get tired of watching TV. It's not because of commercials; no for every racial minority McDonalds hires to sing their jingle in an obvious effort to appear more urban-hip, Sonic or Skittles gives me something not half bad. No, I get tired of watching TV because in a misguided effort to pretend to be informed I turn to the talking heads of 'newsish' TV.

Let me say that I'm not an intellectual. I don't have the attention span to cannnnnndy. I don't have the attention span to actually keep up with on going stories for long enough periods of time to really feel like I understand them completely. Instead I more or less wade through the wide diversity of pressing issues I'm presented with in the news as though someone asked me for my gut-uninformed-opinion. Everything from 'obesity is a growing problem' to the endless, bloody civil war in Shrilanka is categorized in vague pigeon holes between 'Duh!' and 'I feel like watching Peanut Butter more often'.

I get sick and tired of everyone on TV claiming they're the victim. There are victims of poverty, victims of murder, and one could even extend that to larger minorities such as gays, blacks, and black gays. The loudest whiners though don't belong to any minority group; the spokesperson for the majority keeps using its more widespread sympathy and influence to whine the most nail-grating temper tantrum imaginable. It's so ridiculous that large empowered groups of people holding the majority over spans of the US are somehow being kept under the thumb of the (little) man. Christianity, the most popular(ly crazy) religion in the US is now being attacked by the gays. The new supreme court appointment was an affirmative action pick to persecute the often down trodden white male American. This is all so ridiculous. The only thing more ridiculous is the fact that people actually start believing it all. The last time I went home all I heard about was the travesty of Mz California losing her right of free speech.

'it's a sign of how we are all losing our rights to stand up for beliefs'
It's depressing when the adults around here act really stupid.