I don't know, but maybe Michael Hutchence was onto something years ago. It seems that everywhere you turn the news channels are sensationalizing common events.
Take today. I've been hearing all week that we're getting a storm in the city. I listen to the news radio station this morning and its like Armageddon. I'm expecting rivers to turn into blood and frogs to start falling from the sky. Any moment now the four horseman of the apocalypse will go galloping down Yonge street.
Good god people, its going to rain and yes the rain might freeze and the roads might get slippery. I think they have a word for that, hmm...letsee...WINTER! Its friggin' winter out there.
People are so apathetic now. No one really gives a shit about anything. We want to see that freak show shave her head and get tattoos on the back of her neck.
As a student of history, I've spent time studying many ancient cultures. I'm surprised when people refer to some of them (like the Romans for example), as barbarians. The whole thought of gladiators fighting in a ring and then feeding the losers to the lions seems grotesque to us.
As I look at what our culture has become, we are really no different. We delight in other's misfortunes and want our senses tickled by all that is garish.
I guess at the end of the day, in the words of Depeche Mode...."People are people..."
R.
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