I recently read a blog that my daughter wrote regarding the surrealistic circus that has become American culture. I agreed with most if it. I took exception to her statements about Casey Anthony. I know she wasn't defending the baby killing mother (my opinion), but I felt she leaned a little bit overboard in criticizing the America's fascination with the case and the outrage over the verdict. My own opinion is that everything that Anthony did leads me to believe with a certainty that she committed the crime. Babies don't usually end up in a garbage bag with duct tape over their noses while their mother is out dancing in a club. All the talking heads who maintained that the verdict proves that the American justice system works are one of the more glaring symptoms of our malaise. We lend morons the weight of expertise when most of them couldn't find their bottom with an hour's head start and GPS. Is America right be outraged with the verdict? Definitely.
However, I agree overwhelmingly with the gist of what my daughter was saying. Our culture, especially anything that comes out of Hollywood, is a river of sewage. TMZ is my special peeve. If God were to put America on trial, all the prosecution would have to do is trot out the ratings for this piece of garbage to prove that God should reopen the floodgates. The fact that we have people hiding in the bushes outside of restaurants, shopping centers, bars and airports trying catch celebs with their mouths open while they chew proves that we have sunk to an all time low. And heaven help anyone who gets caught in the locust swarm of the 24 hour news cycle.
What is frightening is that ever since we were first warned about television's ability to reduce society to electronic barbarism, we have not heeded a single word. What further debasement awaits us in the future?
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