Sunday, January 30, 2011

At the Jersey Shore

Jersey Shore Re-cap

     It's sad to see that people are most interested in finding out what's going on with Sammi and Ronnie's relationship than what is happening throughout the world. I guess it's entertaining the first time around, but the same thing happens in each episode. They hit the gym, go to the club, Sammi and Ronnie fight and makeup several times, and Snookie gets drunk. I'm sure that if our generation spent more time studying than watching or even creating/producing a show like that we might find a cure to cancer. It's the same with all of those reality TV shows. People live crazy, drama-filled lives and everyone needs to know what's going to happen next week as if it's their best friend going through it. I don't know who these people are and I certainly don't care if they break up or make up with their significant other, get arrested, or the like. I'm not going to lie though, if someone paid me thousands of dollars to put me on TV I would do it in a heartbeat....of course my life would not be as interesting. They would see me go to school and then work, and then back to school....yeah, that show would be cancelled pretty quickly.
     Anyway, my whole point is that even magazines are giving re-caps in case people missed the latest episode of whatever reality show they missed. Since when is it ok to just sit around, party, and "look good" rather than actually work to make a living? It's funny that people would actually be willing to strive harder in order to party than to make a decent living. It would be impossible for our world to move towards greater innovations without succeeding at what we do, yet people are willing to give it all up to lay back and look "cool."