Saturday, June 30, 2007

The glimpse of the society we live in today.

We still have the richer getting richer and the poor still getting poorer. We are impatient with time and even just the little things alone. We indulge in massive amounts of technology more than ever before buying gizmos and gadgets here and there that have multifunctionality. We have a bad economy - rising gas prices that will never drop and massive job cuts (in which companies now rely on cheap labor outside of the U.S.). Certain athletes are now branded as high-prized villains than the heroes (like in the past) in the sports world because of steroids/HGH supplements, crime, love affairs and being overpaid with little they can bring to a team. We have some people around us that take our soldiers for granted being in a war that they really don't belong to in the first place. We have a health care system that is corrupted not willing to take care of their obligations for someone who is dying or having health complications (refer to Michael Moore's movie "Sicko" and you'll know what I mean). We have some rappers that are millionaires, but yet they never let go of their street life thus getting into trouble and making headlines. We have the young looking up to celebrities like Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and (unfortunately someone who was my favorite at one point in this blog) Britney Spears who will never learn to grow up (being continuously irresponsible) and not take accountability for their actions. Box office results now matter more than the quality of the movies. Some young ladies (in their teens) now resort to experimenting in lesbian sex than straight sex with men. People are obese more than ever as many sit down on their seats surfing the internet on their laptops or playing a game on their video game system. More single parents these days with children to take care of, some of which will never know their mother or father. Everyone's got to have a MySpace page (or an online community type of sorts) if you're around your teens and around the ages between 20 and 40 - even past that. For today's young and even up to my generation, to have a really good fun time now is to either drink heavily, get high, or have sexual encounters. The internet has been a big push benefiting the pornographic industry at an all-time high. Certain people disrespect and make fun of generations past mocking of the things they had that were once hot to them. MTV is no longer THE MTV that most of us knew from in the past. It's now a channel catered and aimed for the young generation instead filled with whacky reality shows ... and that's only a glimpse of the society we live in today. What a world, huh. And it just keeps spinning. Think about it ... the world was never perfect in the first place.

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