Boredom

Not a whole hell of a lot has been going on lately. I've spent the last few days studying and putting all of my CD's on HD. I get really, really bored lately. There is not much to do around the house once I take care of the basic cleaning duties. I've decided that it's time for me to start a cult. Why not? I don't know what our basic premise will be, but what the hell, it could be worse, I could try to found Catholicism. No wait, that's already been done.

What would be a good thing to do for tonight? I dunno. I'm sitting here watching my favorite TV show-Red Dwarf. It's an BBC2 sci-fi comedy. This show cracks me up. For those of you who have never seen it, here's a brief synopsis of the premise behind it. It takes place 3 million years in the future. The last human, a hologram of his dead bunkmate, something that evolved from the ships' cat, and a senile, half-wit computer. I know when I said it's a sci-fi comedy, you think I'm nuts. But when was the last time you've seen a sci-fi comedy? Probably never before. The cast has been around in American movies and televison shows. The human is an actor named Craig Charles (Robot Wars(UK)). The cat is Danny John-Jules (Little Shop of horrors, Lock, stok and two smoking barrels, Blade2, and Labrynth). The hologram is Chris Barrie (Splitting Image and Tomb Raider movies). These actors are brilliant. Moreso, I think that the writing is something that main-stream Americans have missed out on.

In a society where we over-gloiry violence, this show is a fresh breath of air. There is hardly any violence (what there is is comical and done in good taste) and no profanity. I know, me liking a show without profanity--Scary.

That's one of the worst things in American society. We Overglorify violence and are terrified of nudity. It's ok to show a murder and mass violence on televison here, but heaven-forbid if you see a nipple. The human body is not something we should be censoring, but should be embracing our own humanity. Our television standards are barbaric. We are supposed to live in the "land of the free," but we can't talk about sex, a natural process, on the radio or on television. Thanks to the narrow-minded people who run our media, our freedoms are being taken away slowly. We are so damn apathetic that no one will do anything to stop it. First they take away our First Amendment rights, then they next thing you know that our Fourth Amendment rights will be suspended. Eventually we will all be mindless automotons, at the mercy of the will of the government.

I'm not saying that the government is a bad thing, but we need to change some things about our society in general. Where are the great leaders of our day? Is there no one out there who is willing to shoulder the burden of bringing our country out of the mire we exist in today? Where are the great men of conscience today? I'm afraid that these traits are being bred out of our gene-pool. Instead we allow a man who was a C student and had a criminal record to run our country. Why did this happen? Because we are lazy as a people.