The Workermonkey

Thursday, February 26, 2004

america, the hypocrite 

# posted by josh @ 2/26/2004 01:43:00 PM

dont get me wrong, i love the US and there's nowhere i'd rather live than w/in its borders, but chump couldnt have said it any better. everything is getting quite ridiculous. for a free society, we sure do have a lot of censorship going on. janet and justin should be punished, yes. i dont know whether or not cbs, mtv, etc should be. but the nfl should know its taking a risk when it allows mtv to produce the halftime show. what it is is that noone wants to take responsibility for anything. everyone blames everyone else, and so in the end, the govt just decides to censor us all.

look at 75% of our advertising. its built around sex. how about the fucking immodium or one of those anti-diarrhea products' commercials: the guy in the hot tub w/ 2 hot women who think his job making paper is sooooo interesting, but then his diarrhea acts up. using sex to sell diarrhea products! sex is everywhere. it's how we procreate and prolong society. people iwll have to learn about it someday. besides, the radio shit is such bullshit. if you dont like it, change the fucking station or put in a cd. for christs sake. no one is putting a gun to these people's heads and forcing them to listen to stern or anyone else. hello first amendment, freedom of speech. fucking nazi's can schedule marches in skokie, ill, a predominantly jewish chicago suburb, and that's held to be a constitutional exercise of free speech, but howard stern cant talk about oral/anal sex? what the hell is that? hypocrisy at its finest. i'd love to see this clear channel thing go to the supreme court (which it most likely will not) and have them put stern back on the air nationwide. i hope they put him on every station for 23 hours a day. fuck censorship. remember when this nation was originally settled cuz all the protestants wanted to stop having their religion censored in europe? what happened to that?

i often see problems like this, and the gay marriage debates, and wonder how people have made it this far and how people can be so hypocritical. i wonder why i put up with it at times. but is there anywhere better to go? despite these downfalls, i think america is still the best place to be. sure, some of these issues dont directly affect my day to day life, but they still enrage me, as i see others' rights wrongfully being taken away. it just seems that a nation built on democratic ideals and freedom, shouldnt be so hypocritical and censoring. the worst part is they're getting away with it.

now dont get me wrong, everyday citizens are often morons too, its just their stupid decisions arent publicized nationwide. but i see ignorance and stupidity everyday. but then i see it by govt and corporations as well. it makes me wonder, who do i want to represent when i become a lawyer? the obvious answer is myself. the serious answer is those who are in the right, or who are having rights violated. the practical answer is where i can get a good job, which will give me the means i need to live the good life by my standards, as long as i dont infringe on the rights ofothers. so where does that leave me? frustrated and confused.

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