“I hate that I watch this show, but it’s so addictive.” That is the comment that my roommate made this morning when he turned on the show Jersey Shore. It is a known fact within my household that I despise the majority of popular television, and I guess he felt the need to attempt to justify as to why he would turn this atrocious show on.
I looked deeper into this issue and began to focus on why he would even feel the need to justify watching one of the most popular shows on TV. After all, everyone has their own tastes, and those tastes cannot always match up. I came to the resolution that my roommate is a smart guy and he feels the need to justify it because he knows that it is complete shit. I would even go a step further, and argue that even though millions of Americans watch this show, they too realize that it is complete shit, and contributing to the downfall of American culture. Look at what we glorify.
America is putting value on trash, and is consciously doing so. If more smart people (like my roommate and many others) would put themselves above the trash that is displayed on MTV and stop watching it, television would be forced to cater to people on a more educated and productive level. Instead, we have college kids who lower themselves to the level of Snookie and whoever else is on this sorry excuse for a show.
It truly depresses me that my generation will be remembered for things like Jersey Shore, and music artists like Ke$sha. This is coming from a total lack of self-respect. People are lowering themselves to watch and listen to complete garbage when they are capable of comprehending and processing so much more. If more people actually thought about what they were taking in I think that it would force television to put better things on TV.
It is important to know that I am not coming at this from a moral point of view. I could not care less what language is used or what body parts are depicted. I simply think that we are putting so much value as a society on completely uneducated morons and idiots. There is a show on MTV that glorifies people that are “16 and pregnant.” What the hell people? This means we have 15 year olds watching this show saying to themselves, “If I get pregnant, I may be able to be on this show!” HOW IS THIS HELPING US AS A SOCIETY? Hint: It’s not!
Excuse me for ranting, but the 60s got the Beatles, and I’m left with Snookie! And if you’re naïve enough to think that I believe Snookie will have any lasting effect on anyone’s mind after a year or two, you need to keep reading this journal because you have a lot to learn.
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