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Originally Posted by Vasago Reno
You certainly have your finger on the pulse of our species - all based on offerings from the History channel.
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i don't think its a huge stretch to suggest that retarded tv programming is in part, a reflection of where we are as a society. the average person knows if Paris Hilton farted or not yesterday or who got voted off American Idol... but can't do simple algebra or answer basic geography questions or probably find Canada on a map.
there used to be a time when people actually had great respect for education and art... and kids would dream of being lawyers and doctors and firemen or whatever their father did... now every other kid thinks he's going to be a rapper or a professional athlete and doesn't even have the fucking brains to put on a pair of pants that can be worn without having to physically hold them up while walking around.
this nation has been dumbed down to an almost impossible state of collective stupidity and the sad thing is that its only going to get worse and mindless entertainment is driven by the fact that twitter or facebook et al and an electronic world is causing attention spans to shrink from minutes to milliseconds.
i leave the history channel on because i appreciate history. kinda surprising to see great programming replaced by some fucking idiot trying to hunt UFO's... who never finds them and it gets ratings.
BET was going to be a channel with programming for the African American community... in the end, its nothing but one long episode "Yo MTV Raps" mixed in with re-runs of New Jack City and other flattering movies
Oxygen was going to be programming for women and to celebrate women. In the end, they have shows like "Bad Girls" which is about a bunch of obnoxious chicks being cunts to each other because that's what sells.
the list goes on and on.