Watch the movie "Idiocracy" sometimes. A silly comedy but with some heavy truth. The coming wave is a society raised on social media and reality TV. A major dumbing down is in progress with the masses duped by overblown events and constant commercialism and advertisements. I'll take those fajitas though. LOL. I'm actually going to a hockey game on SB day but they even changed the time for that so we can all rush home and stare at the box. Imagine being excited by the new commercials. I turn the mute on every time they play a commercial. I'm surprised they even allow us to still do that that instead of having one those telescreens from"1984" that you could never turn off or mute.
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Combat!
I feel you. When I watched
Idiocracy I was like "whoa, you got something there". No, no I hear every word your saying. I got a niece who is like 27 years old who more concerned with her Kim Kardashian app than her son! Personally, my kids are banned from social media; one from instagram and the other from Facebook. Plus, if you were ever to ask one of my kids who's phones that it in their hand, they would reply "my dads". Yup, I am the supreme hard *** when it comes to phones and out of the blue I simply say to them "give me your phone" and go through all the texts, web searches, and photos. Plus, they have to "check in" their phone each and every night before bed time in my office...so no phone for you in when you go to sleep.
We do the best we can as parents my wife and I, but the bombardment of media is sooooooo overwhelming that I have to race to change channels when a Viagra commercial comes on when we are watching CNN! Any who, the dumbing down of 'Merica has been going on for a long time and frankly I am sick of it. All I can do is try to educate and raise my kids to best of my ability. Teach em what's cool and what's ridiculous. Keep them humble and never ever forget who they are and where they came from.
Anyway, I get some grief some times during football season (only during football season) when I am asked "you didn't watch the game???", as if I committed some sort of sin. No, I went to a youth soccer game and to me that was more exciting and wholesome than some BS I watched on TV. But, I must admit I like the Super Bowl, its a great show whether I got a dog in the hunt or not, but when it's over nothing has changed for me. The NFL does not pay my bills and I still have to go to work the next day. I don't get a trophy, reap any benefits, get gatorade thrown on me...nothing. I'm just a fan or voyeur watching a sports spectacle come to its end of the season like any other professional sport.
I can't wait for the Olympics this year, because Rugby is making its appearance once again as an Olympic game. Do you know who are the defending Olympic WORLD Champions are? Yup, the United States who beat France in the 1924 Olympic Games to win Gold.
So, once again the US will face the World in international competition and be waaaaaaay behind, just like in soccer. But I'll save that discussion for another thread.
John from Texas
PS: No empty promises here I'll send you some fajitas if you want them!
