Sea of Humanity

Numb

Well it has been awhile and I am back. Miss me? Spent most of the last week working like a fiend, so I wasn't able to post as often as I would have liked. But, now I am back and really have just one thing to say. I am sick of the media. I feel like 24/7 I am having "news" jammed down my throat in one form or another. In this post September 11 world, it is tiring. Like a lot of people, I have CNN as my home page so I essentially have the mass media's version of the world at my fingertips. I am fed up with it.

I used to enjoy reading about world events, but not anymore. I came to the re-realization that 95% of the news we read is completely irrelevant to our daily lives. As exciting as all of this Iraq, U.N., war, terrorism crap is, it doesn't really affect our daily lives. Well, maybe the terrorism news does in some "what the fuck I am supposed to do to save my own ass" kind of way (Not that we really need to worry about death). Seriously, what impact does the latest U.N. Security Council decision (or, perhaps more properly, indecision) have on me? What of the ceremonial dick pulling that goes on amongst heads of state and their entourages? Again zilch impact on my daily life. The latest sabre rattling from that butplug in North Korea? Again, doesn't change my daily routine in the least. Do I give a rat's ass that Saddam doesn't sleep in the same place twice? Or that this whole Iraq thing has Bush up all night unable to take a healthy dump? Not really. But the media wants me to. The media wants me to want to know what caused the space shuttle to blow up over Texas. They want me to have a burning desire to learn more about the unrest on the Korean peninsula and the dangers of ephedra. They want me to keep up on the latest polls, scares, violence, and scores. They want me to develop a voracious appetite for news that only they can fill.

And for awhile I had the appetite, the hunger for bigger and badder news. I wanted to know everything that was going on. I would get irritated that they weren't bringing me news fast enough. I would even get into inane conversations with co-workers and friends about what the proper move was on Iraq. Damn, what a waste of time when you think about it. All this jabbering about Bush, North Korea, the French, yadda, yadda, yadda, ad nauseam. I dunno. No more of it for me. Yeah, sure I will glance at CNN now and again out of curiosity. But not with the same sense of urgency I once had.

We are a generation of voyeurs. Whether your thing is live hidden cams of the wife next door, CNN, MSNBC, or what bimbo bombshell will select what furrowed browed nit wit, you have fallen prey to it. Me I am rejecting it. Time to pick up the slack and start living life. Let the chips fall where they may damn it, I am going to make my own news. Or maybe just sit at home and play violent, military video games. It is a real toss up. Hmm.. I wonder what Bush is up to.