Intelligence as we used to know it is now a mere shadow of itself.
Do you remember when we used to pride ourselves on outsmarting others? Or we would hear about Scientists or Mathematicians and think "Wow, those guys are so smart! I'd love to be that smart."
Well, with the invention of Reality TV, Emoticons, and OnStar we can kiss that era goodbye.
No longer does a person have to know how to read a map, or measure distance with the legend at the bottom of said map. No, it's all done for you, and delivered to you with a pleasant sounding computer person tucked away inside your dashboard. "Turn Right on Vineland in 1.3 miles."
No longer do we say "Oh, that was funny." in a message between two people. We have went from writing "LOL" (laugh out loud for those that have been living under a rock), to not even attempting to type at all and pushing a little yellow smiley face with his mouth agape in apparent laughter. I find full grown adults abbreviating words to an extent that they are no longer legible. This is the demise of language as we know it. When adults on a Social Networking site are writing "OMG, dat's gonna get Gawd on ur ass!!" If you're old enough to have graduated college, had children, own a house, or to even drink alcoholic beverages, it is time to grow up and be an adult.
An emoticon is not an answer to a question. "LMAO" is not proper English. It's all of a sudden COOL to be STUPID. Which brings me to Reality TV...the demon in our society.
A fish lipped, liposuctioned, idiot of a human being can be famous for having a litter of children, that if this were a jungle, would have been dragged off by any number of ferocious animal with the excuse of "Survival of the Fittest".
Your parents can be the owners of a hotel chain that brings in enough money for you to never have to think again, and therefore find whatever powdery substance that happens to be lying around L.A. to shove up your nose all the while having a camera crew following you around dropping idiotic dribble out of your mouth like "That's hot." "Ohmigawd." and other worthless nonsense.
Then, when this wet fart hits the airwaves, impressionable child after impressionable child see it all over television. It's only hours before Little Suzie in Tallahassee, Florida goes to buy pink tiaras and walks into school with a stuffed chihuahua under her arm saying "That's hot." to everyone she sees.
It's a sad world we live in when a scientist that discovers there may be an actual cure for cancer is on the bottom page of CNN.com and another overdosed celebrity is at the top as Late Breaking News!!
This is all I have for now...I'll most assuredly return to this topic, as it's one of the biggest things that irks me in this world.
Goodnight folks, and enjoy the world you see now, because the next generation is going to fuck it up good.
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