Archive for September 11th, 2007

“K-Fed Scratches Ass, Lindsay Lohan Falls Out”

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

….and celebrity news just like that can be found on TMZ.com, a website created just for all of you who can’t get enough reporting on what your favorite Hollywood icons are up to.

I just checked the site, and there’s a picture on its front page showing flowers on the grave of Anna Nicole Smith, with a caption that proudly boasts that said flowers were placed there by the oh-so-intriguing Howard K. Stern.

Do you want to know what my reaction to this news was?

Wait for it.

Ok, here it is:

“Who the hell cares?”

Which was my reaction when I discovered that TMZ.com is going to have its very own show on my television! Just what I need, another show devoted to the happenings in the lives of people I don’t give a rat’s ass about.

But, you, the American people, care. You do. Otherwise there would be no websites and shows like this. The adulation of pop stars has reached an all-time high these past few years. Or, should I say all-time low? I’m not sure what to say because I honestly don’t understand any of it.

I don’t understand this infatuation with people we don’t even know. I don’t understand why everyone cares so much about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. Are our lives so dull that we have to live vicariously through these dimwits who have not done a single thing to improve our own lives? If anything, they’ve made our lives more shallow and meaningless.

Mind you, I’m speaking for you - not myself. I have a very full and interesting life without paying attention to the tabloids. There are things I do - work, read, write, socialize, etc. that all play such a large part in my life that I don’t have the time to wonder what club Ashlee Simpson was seen at last night.

But, you all seem to have that time. Or do you make time to worship these people? Does it give your life a special meaning to hang on every word they say, to adopt their views and opinions as your own, to develop your personal style based on what they’re wearing?

Let me ask you this: When your children have an essay for school to write, describing their personal hero, how many of them have written about Paris or Britney? How many of them have written about Eleanor Roosevelt or Martin Luther King, Jr.? Sadly, I’d bet my last dollar that more students would write about the former, or other celebrities like them, than the latter.

What I’m trying to get across here is that America needs a wake-up call. We need to divert the focus away from goings on in Hollywood and use that time and energy to focus on more important things. We have a lot wrong with our country, and we need to start fixing it. We have to stop bowing down to these idiot celebrities like they’re divinity and try to better our own lives.

Instead of taking your child to see the newest Lindsay Lohan film, take them to a museum. Teach your children to think for themselves. Right now, most Americans are being told what to think by the media, and most of you buy into it. In order to progress as a society - as a civilization - we need to take that power away from those who have no right to wield it. Right now, Hollywood has that power - and it’s the job of the “huddled masses” to take it back.