June 25, 2013

• Jury Duty And Some BullShit

  I have my first jury duty in about 6 hours almost...shit! I have jury duty in about 6 hours! Need to get my ass in bed!

  But I'm not...might as well take this short amount of time to talk about something I really hate. I know that hate is a strong word and there's actually very few things that I hate about the world but I'm kind of leaning towards both sides on this one.

  We're consumers, right? Practically everything around us is part of some kind of business. The coca-cola cans that I have on my desk are designed a specific way to get me attracted to it, the taste is distinctively good (designed a certain way), and everything else about the Coke has been designed to attract consumers. Hollywood is the same way, right? The actors/actresses in movies aren't always determined by how good they are, but how popular they are. If John Cena is in a movie, he's going to attract wrestling fans along with women who are attracted to big men. Gunner movies like Rambo, Terminator, etc consist of big dudes. It's no surprise the purpose behind it all; Hollywood is a business, and we are the consumers. Put a movie in with a hott chick, throw a partial sex scene in the movie trailer, and you've got a select age group of men flocking to the movie practically just for that reason.

  Of course, why not? You know? Hott chicks in movies that are nude enough to allow you to fill in what you can't see by promoting the use of your imagination. But the truth of the matter is that us consumers are either too stupid to notice, or we don't care.

  There are men/women all over the world who compare themselves to celebrities. Some men/women literally starve themselves because they're trying to compare themselves to a certain female celebrities. The problem is that, along the way, their image gets distorted until they no longer can tell what is true and what isn't. You could tell them that they're skinny and it's gonna flow right over their heads because they can't see it. In their minds, they need to lose more weight because they aren't skinny enough. They might even start those high intense work-outs like P90X and whatnot. However, you'll ask yourself...why the hell is he/she doing something like that? They're about 20 pounds. If Charles Darwin came back from the dead, he would laugh at some people. It's all because of this body image that you canonly be beautiful if you're skinny.

  Now I can't decide whether I should be blame us, the consumers, or we should blame the media. The stuff we should've done a long time ago is put real women in movies. You can say that all women in movies are real women, but you know that's not the truth. I believe that some people are so stupid that they have to continually be reminded that not every woman looks like her natural self. You've got fuckin' make-up artists, clothes designers, lighting specialists, photoshop specialists, and any other kind of specialist that specializes in making a woman as beautiful as can be. Personal trainers, doctors that do plastic surgery and other kind of surgery, the whole 9 yards.

  It fucking kills me to see men and women look up to celebrities as role-models for their body because it's all lies. And people are either, again, too stupid or don't really give a shit. Men will jerk off to celebrities fantasizing about meeting Angelina Jolie in her Tomb Raider outfit, or some woman will have dreams about certain celebrity males. It saddens me to hear that some women honestly believe that there's a possibility that they're going to marry a celebrity.

  I never understood it. Yeah, I'm fat as hell but I guaran-fuckin-tee you that if I was going to be put into a movie, my body would make a transformation too. It's Hollywood. They could make me into anything I wanted to be with the technology. It's manipulation, and consumers are a bunch of sheep when it comes to that. I don't have six pack abs, but if I'm going to look up to someone...it's gonna be a guy that works hard at work and at the gym and doesn't have anyone helping but his own mind. I don't get jealous of celebrities because celebrities are celebrities. They have access to shit that I could only dream of accessing. But if you give me access to that shit...it'd be a whole different ball-game.

  It's just stupid. The thing about celebrities is that if we left them alone, they wouldn't be such a big deal. We have the power to cancel those bullshit shows on television, but we eat that shit up like it's going out of style. We don't know how much power we have because we don't use it. We're too stupid for that, or maybe we're just too oblivious. But I just think that it's because we're too stupid.

   

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