I don't like to feel sorry for myself. Who does? Its pathetic, it is not? Who wants to be so miserable that they get joy out of directing pity inward? I would like to hope that no one would. However, for today and today only, I am feeling sorry for myself. Not only am I feeling sorry for myself, but I am actually feeling extremely selfish as well. To show you just how selfish I am feeling, I would like you to join me in feeling sorry for me. That's kind of fucked up, isn't it? Why on earth would I want people to feel sorry for me? For you information, I could't have a better reason; I just turned my television to the E! network! 

I know, I know, why would anyone ever do such a thing? I honestly couldn't tell you. However, I can tell you one thing from the 37 seconds of television I just witnessed; as a society, we are completely and utterly fucked. I just saw a commercial for a show called Bridalplasty. This is the sickest thing that I have ever seen, and I have seen Caligula....

I understand that reality television is nothing new. I understand that the intellectual bar has been consistently lowered for the last decade in a way that it never has before. However, I have never seen anything this disturbing in my entire life. The basic premise of the show, or so I gathered from the tiny amount that I could stomach, is that a large group of women are competing for a chance to get a full body butchering just in time for their dream wedding. The winner of each challenge gets small prizes, like BOTOX injections...

Yes, the people that want to participate in this are fucked up. However, this comes full circle, which I will explain  in a bit. What is more fucked up is that there are people that dream this shit up. There are board meetings, and discussion groups of people that prey on the fears, insecurities and vanity of the American people, just so they can use these things against them to force them to compete and lower any standards that they may have once had. What they are competing for is perfection; something that simply doesn't exist. Or does it? Well, it does actually, on these television shows! It all comes full circle. If there ever was a twisted cycle of shit eating, this is certainly it. However, when the average Josephine is constantly comparing themselves to images on the tv, who can blame them for eventually losing track of reality? The producers of this bile are hoping that you do! 

However, what is more fucked up than the peddlers of this garbage or the contestants are people like you and me. People that turn on the tv and see this shit and say to ourselves, "haha, look at the trash!" I have news for you, but this makes you just as bad, if not worse. If you set aside time to watch The Jersey Shore because you think that Snooki is insanely trashy, then chances are you could someday be a cast member on one of these shows. 

We are constantly being dumbed down as a nation. All of the popular music that we hear on the radio is made to be sold. The movies we watch are remakes of movies we watched as kids. The news programs we watch are commercials disguised as anything but a commercial. Now we have stooped so low as to watch people that struggle with body issues fight for plastic surgery so they can be the "perfect person"? 

I'll pass. but you can do whatever you'd like. However, when we are working as slaves in a sweatshop making fake body parts that will be sold to.. well, us, don't say I didn't warn you!