Moronism on Increase

[gothwalk]

People. Big Brother. For the sake of my sanity, and your bodily safety, STOP. It is inane. It is stupid. And it is, for some reason, all OVER the place. It's very rare I get as far as objecting vocally to something going on near or around me, because normally I'm pretty well able to ignore idiocy, but this is taking the idiocy in from the rain and dressing it in velvet robes. GET A GRIP.

Ayethankyew.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

never mind. There's still a way on in Iraq, you know.
Oh, and did you hear the one about the anti-EU party that got elected to the European Parliament? Oh how we laughed...

The world's going to hell in a handbasket, and all people give a damn about is oil and circuses.

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

You can vote in this particular circus though, and your votes make a difference to who stays and goes unlike in an election. More to the point it's a show that is encouraging people to talk - granted not about the deepest topic ever but there are folks out there who are now having lengthy conversations where before they'd manage a grunt and folks are learning to analyze behaviour in other people.

Or to put it another way: it's better than the fucking football

[mr-wombat.livejournal.com]

Yes, less engaging in the art of conversation would make the world a better place. Furthermore we should avoid facilitating people with a common topic (which has everything - scandal, controversy, sex, violence) on the offchance that they start building bridges, making friends, finding other common interests and reaching out to their fellow man in a manner which may well be very small but as we know, every little helps (or doesn't, depending on how much sarcasm I pour on there).
I'd like to think that people are also watching the behaviour exhibited on the show and maybe examining their own actions but I get the feeling that the show has less effect on introspection than it does on providing conversation pieces.