Amusing ourselves to death

[Meneldil]

Uhm, yeah. Welcome to the golden age of the 21st century. Sucks don't it?

There's no cure but to keep trying our best until it all crashes and burns, at which point people might get the point.

Personally I think the biggest sign recently is the fact that CNN won't talk about anything other than Michael freaking Jackson. Nothing else. Not Iran, not Iraq, not Afghanistan, not Honduras, not Congress, not crap. Just Michael Jackson.

Don't be sad, the same thing is happening in France.

A typical TV news show goes on like this:
-10 mins of Michael Jackson
-2 mins of random french stuff
-1 min on Iran
-A few seconds on various world event
-2 mins on Sarkozy latest achievement/failure (depending on the channel you're watching)
-5 more mins of Michael Jackson.

That's pretty much it. If the revolution in Iran fails, I'm pretty sure Michael Jackson will have to claim guilty. Not only that, but people were being bored by the events in Iran. They've been told for years that Iranians are extremists nutjobs bent on destroying Israel and the free world, and all of sudden, they discover that there's a large moderate population. Way too intense for the average news-watcher, it wasn't deemed entertaining anymore after 2 weeks.

Ehm, what were we complaining about again?

If you consider that having a full fridge is the final aim to be reached by mankind, then that's kind of disappointing.