I Don't Care!

I always like to compare major news networks' homepages to see what stories they have headlined. Currently, as I type this, at 4:58am eastern time, Fox News' big headline is about some lady who's kid got snatched by a person pretending to be an immigration agent. I don't care. I couldn't care less. It's not that I'm calloused to people's problems; I am quite capable of empathy, and on rare occasions, even sympathy, but honestly, this is not national news. CNN's big story is that a "controversial former Japan official is found dead." Once again, you guessed it, I don't care.

Furthermore, I can count about 4 stories on CNN's home page that I am even remotely interested in. Meanwhile, I'm pretty interested in every other story on Fox's front page. The only story on their page I'm not interested in is this mess with some ladies kid, who she got back, then lost to the state because of "safety concerns." Why do I know about that? That's exactly the point I'm trying to make, just from skimming their home page, I know far more about this person than I ever cared to know. Meanwhile, we have real issues going on all around us! No wonder the public is so damned uninformed. The media is baffling us with bullshit!

There were eight troops killed in Afghanistan today. From the front page of both sites, that's all the information I have. Eight US lives lost to a war that Obama ignored to go lobby for the Olympics that most citizens didn't want, but I know no details about it unless I click on the story. Meanwhile, I know that some Japanese guy got drunk at a news conference earlier this year, and he is now dead, oh and also some lady lost her baby, but got it back, only to lose that child, and several others for being a bad parent.

This is a travesty. Our citizenry, if you can call it that with a straight face, is asleep at the wheel. We accept mediocrity in every arena of life. We glide through life as if this is a dress rehearsal. We put off changing the things that need changing in order to be vaguely entertained by other people's dramas. That is bullshit. We currently have two wars going on, even though people like to pretend that one is over, and the other one, well, they are still trying to decide if they are going to call that one quits or not. We have Iran building nukes, or at the very least working on it. We have natural disasters a plenty, that's at least somewhat newsworthy, (of course, those stories always get hijacked to push the "green" agenda). I could go on and no about the real issues, there are more than enough of them to fill a page.

I care about the big issues, but when it comes to personal problems of people I don't know, and will never know, particularly problems that are brought about through bad decision making. I DON'T CARE! My life isn't interesting, and neither is yours. We all have our own shit, and ultimately, nobody cares but you and yours! In the last year I've had gigantic, life altering events, which I alluded to briefly in a post entitled, Sometimes Life Kicks Your Ass, beyond that, you don't know about them. Do you know why? Because you don't care! And neither do I.

(I've edited this post about 4 times since publishing it, mainly because I typed it in a pissed off hurry. I'd like to point out, that I understand that if you are reading this blog, you are probably at least somewhat like me, and therefore, don't care either. In fact, I expect to accomplish nothing from this post, other than to rant to the anonymous masses who may someday read this).