Michael Jackson, Celebrity worship and civics 101

The United States is home to thousands of minor and hundreds of major celebrities, people who make tens of millions of dollars a year selling their faces, and bodies to gain more attention and more money. With this “stardom” comes a sense of accomplishment, for when you have thousands of fans screaming your name, singing your songs, and plastering their rooms with your extra-life sized face on a 10.00 poster it is easy to gain a sense of superiority. Sadly, Americans buy into this and feed on it creating more and more “starstruck” children raised in a culture bent on taking every last dollar while selling you a worthless purse dog, or pretty bauble simply because one of your “idols” has one.

America creates fan based reality television shows because they truly believe that a person's worth gains the more people know about them, do they act like idiots and parade around on the sets of shows like Jerry Springer or Maury Povich and curse, hit and revile the very children they have had. Why is this happening? It is simple really, to be someone in this nation today the media tells us we have to be LIKE someone else. Advertising and corporations marketing shows that humans like to be apart of something bigger than they are, so they create shows that allow one or two of the millions of ant like people the chance to act out their “fantasies” to an entire country of unfortunate bugs who call themselves humans.

Reality television shows that it is ok to have children at 15, and it is ok to do drugs, be a gangster, and even better it is perfectly normal (according to reality television) to cheat on your partners and than BLAME the partner themselves for our personal actions! Society in the modern United States says it is ok to act like an idiot on television and if you are stupid enough or slutty enough and broadcast it to enough people you too can be famous and have more things!

Instead of teaching our children personal responsibility we are encouraging them to place the blame for all of their ills on everyone else. Instead of teaching our children to educate themselves we teach them to ignore real education and embrace ignorance. Instead of teaching our children about the importance of Independence Day July 4th 1776, we say to them, watch Michael Jackson's funeral he was a “great man.”

Am I sickened, of course, what semi-intelligent American wouldn't be. Will my thoughts and ideas matter in the end? Not really, after all it is the ignorant masses that think my revering the very foundations of this nation, and the freedoms we base everything in this nation on over some silly singer who liked to touch boys is wrong that will in the end prevail. Is there a way out of this madness, only time will tell.

So worship your celebrities and cry at the funerals of people who for the most part were simply paid moving artwork. Revere your fallen Michael's and Elvis's and forget the very past that allows us to be this ignorant. Hopefully one day soon everyone will wake up and realize that their lives are empty, maybe when the lights go out and they cannot watch reality television they will realize how very stupid they are.

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