Have you ever noticed that a crowd or mass of people seem to emulate the most annoying and ignorant person within the collective? It seems to start at a centralized area and spreads like a pandemic until the whole collective settles in a state mental inferiority. It’s truly a wondrous thing to observe the virulent effects of stupidity. However it’s impossible for people to deny this urge to become a mob. It’s a subconscious agreement with everyone in the mob to act as one with total disregard for everything logical. I could see a lot of people spontaneously exploding if an individual had the willpower to resist said mob influence. It’d be similar to an encounter with God. Our heads would explode in a shower of blood and bone shrapnel. I can’t see people ever developing immunity to a powerful contagion like stupid. Even after all is said and done, the crowd breaks away, the leader has left; the stupid hasn’t really disappeared. It’s like Herpes; you keep it with you while it lays dormant waiting for an opportune moment to resurface to a stimulus. A stimulus in the form of a wave patterns blasted on to phosphorus screen. That’s right TV. The primary contributor, reality shows like Survivor. These shows are designed to appeal to the largest audience possible. Since the show has produced yet another season, it’s safe to say this moronic show of daydreamers is proof enough for me that the media is feeding the disease to earn more money. A commonly known fact is that stupidity is regarded as synonymous with spontaneity and you’re more likely to make an unsound economical purchase in this state. I can’t really blame this solely on Survivor. But, I don’t have the time to list the thousands of stupid programming we endure everyday with near comatose levels of activity. So I’ll provide a few Station names that I think make the average person just a little more stupid. Fox, Life, Global, WB, Teletoon, YTV, A&E, Women’s life network, and lastly aboriginal channels. That last one isn’t part of a racist remark, rather a pointless endeavor to educate people about superfluous and inconsequential culture; as culture and diversity has lost almost all meaning to the overbearing stigmas and stereotypes manufactured by the media conglomerates. On the subject of media influenced thought. I really do think prostitution should be legalized. It’s one of the oldest and most profitable markets in the world. Sex is proven scientifically to improve self-esteem and combat depression. Is it really so immoral to sell someone an orgasm? Honestly, we as a nation, are more morally sound to sell a country bombs and guns knowing they are going to kill someone with them, than we are of selling someone an orgasm. Does that make any sense to you? Not only that it’s completely hypocritical. You constantly let products, movies, and shows use women to increase appeal without a complaint. We even have a commonly known credo, “sex sells”. I’m just looking for consistency here. If we’re going to be brave enough to say were the dominant species on the planet I really think we should start acting like it. Just think. If it was legalized there could be more government control. More Government control equals fewer infectious diseases being spread, a whole new market to tax the shit out off. Not only that, we are turning a useless parasite on society into a viable organ capable of supporting and bettering our society. Our unemployment rate would drop considerably if we turned it into a respectable profession, and like insurance, it’s appealing to a market group that’s always going to be there. I really don’t like democracy for those particular reasons. When I think democracy, I think of a group of frat guys getting out of a wild party all hammered arguing which of them is least drunk to drive them to their destination. The voting process is superficial and highly dubious, since they’re all incredibly drunk; popular guy wins. In every case the winner is never unanimous so they end up getting back seat drivers because they aren’t happy with the decision. So now we’re in a car with the supposedly least drunk person according to 51% of the people driving us to a direction none of us can agree on. To compound the problem the driver is being scrutinized and distracted by back seat drivers and their fellow supports. Where is this getting us? No where. We have no displacement and we’ve wasted all that distance. If the media is any indication of the majority of people voting, then I have to say I’m frightened. Who’s bright idea was it to leave major decisions to people of sub-standard intelligence who care more about what happened on Survivor than they do their elected politicians. This is why politicians are able to perform scandals and steal your money. You don’t pay attention. I think we need to go back to a dictatorship, just for a little while. You know, let people taste oppression and an iron fisted rule once more to remind them why we live in a democracy. But I have to give them some slack. It’s not all their fault they’re born in a system designed to crush your dreams and enslave your will to corporate masters. It all starts with childhood, your parents tell you of wondrous people of impeccable virtue. Only to shatter your beliefs that Satan isn’t real some years later. Then the Easter bunny is next, then you realize your favorite show characters are just actors and your world land slides from there. By now you’re approaching school, and the pressure is really applied to succeed and go to University. People crack, explode, surrender and just plain hand themselves over to a position needing to be filled. This all happens within 4 years, I have to say they’ve really mastered this slave training process; it used to be 5 until they found a way to cut corners. But slaves can’t be without masters so a few individuals ride to the top through connections or stepping all over the other slaves to get noticed by the other ruthless man slavers. The deception doesn’t end there, after you’re all trained and put into the work force they hand you small pieces of paper to conceal just how unhappy you really are. You buy a dwelling and buy stuff with these papers. Your dwelling isn’t much more than a building to hold all your stuff when you leave to go get more stuff. They encourage you to start a family by giving bonuses and social aid so the slave work force doesn’t pitter out and the masters come crashing down losing all their power. Isn’t it great how powerful people have tainted and distorted a phenomenal thing like learning? It’s amazing that they can’t even leave out emotions alone. They have to attach a power siphon to every one of us. Hallmark, if you truly love someone, you’ll send them a Hallmark. Diamonds, display your commitment to your love because Diamonds are forever. They don’t do this for money; the money is an object that represents power. They have a power over us to influence our emotions and decisions. Because we continually buy their product we are inadvertently agreeing with their beliefs and our dependence on them for presenting these emotions. But the catheter of all the tubes and plugs designed to drain our bodies is the CDA. The Canadian Department of Agriculture, telling us what healthy eating is through simplistic design. A pyramid. I find it highly suspicious when a food industry tells me how much food I should eat if I want to be “healthy”. Completely omitting the kind gene therapy they perform on our vegetables and fruits, the massive amounts of preservatives, growth hormones, and steroids in our meat, I still find it suspicious that the people who have most to gain from this are telling us how much to buy. I worry about people sometimes, taking stuff like this for granted. There is one place I’d like to see more drugs used; Sports. Before I explain the vast improvement on the entertainment value to be gained with the addition of drugs, I’m going to provide you with some reasoning. Firstly, I’ve noticed enormous improvements to equipment coaches and athletes are using. So already the game conditions have altered as the athletes today have more science to compensate for discomfort of bad running shoes. Not only that, coaches now have radios, walkie-talkies, surveillance cameras, and spy equipment so they can inform their athletes of important changes or strategies in an instant. If were willing to allow all this, why can’t we allow athletes to improve their equipment, their own body? Their body to them is a tool, a device to be used. Why not let modern science alter them to be more efficient. Health risks clearly aren’t much of a concern considering what they do is highly dangerous and excessively strenuous on their hearts. Now for the entertainment value gained. Consider how much more appealing a boxing match would be if both contestants were bloated with steroids, stimulants and a low grade beaver tranquilizer. I can guarantee you bouts would last many more rounds and it’d always be action packed. All weight qualification would have to bump up about 100lbs. Imagine the kind of Olympic battles that would take place, 2 runners side by side, pushing to take the lead when one of them has their heart explode from their chest. Can you picture the kind of overflow sports would get with more fans wanting to see more blood as two teams of aggravated steroid abusers beat the piss out of each other over nothing? It’d give reason for those grizzly bear suits, we could start mass producing them for the referees. It’s thoughts like these that are keeping me from going to the really good schools.