Sunday 11 January 2009

Olla!

Hey, here's something that's been pissing me off. Just go to www.yahoo.com and look at the news. The news they try to pass off as essential, on a website that considers itself an important source of information, and the most important hub on the internet. Lots and lot and lots and lots of people visit this website daily, for it is the center of this modern network of information and communication called the Internet.

Look at this fucking news. Why do we care about Amy Winehouse? Why should we care about Patrick Swayze? People get cancer and die all the time, but they don't get covered on Yahoo! They don't publicize every single aspect of the day of some dying child in Nairobi or Sri Lanka or Venezuela or some isolated mountain village in Tibet, yet every day when I wake up and check the news I have to read about Britney's new hair or Tom Cruise's new whatever-ma-bob.

What the hell is wrong with these people? Look at the "Today's Top Searches" category. I like watching this section because it shows the flow of interests on a large scale in a huge group of people. Today's top searches are:


Kate Winslet
Cheryl Burke
Mary Lynn Rajskub
3D TV
Jason Momoa
Cherry Jones
Foreclosures
2009 Toyota Sienna
Acne Treatment
Birthday Balloons

This is what people care about. They are all searching for some chick called Kate Winslet who can barely sort of act, to see what she's done now. Oh wow! I wonder what Kate Winslet did today!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO FIND OUT. OH FUCK I CAN'T WAIT OMG I'M SO HAPPY I HAVE THE INTERNET TO MAKE ME STUPIDER AND MORE GULLIBLE EVERY DAY OAOGMFGFG!!!

Birthday Baloons. HAHAHA. Why are they searching for birthday balloons? JUST FREAKING BUY THE BALLOONS. They're just these rubber things that you blow in, this does not deserve to be in the most sought out things on the internet section. And why is it in the top of all a sudden? Is there a sudden wave of birthdays in this period? How is that possible? Logic dictates that birthdays should be spread out evenly across the year in a huge group of people. Doesn't this smell fishy to you? I think Yahoo! is trying to manipulate us into buying birthday balloons!

3D TV... there's no such thing.

Yahoo! has a special section called OMG! where they cover all the celebrity news, in the most annoying way possible. I tried to watch one video on there and I almost keeled over to puke. UGH. It's like "Britney's new Clothing Fiasco!" WTFF? (what the fucking fuck?) I looked at the picture and it was just Brtiney Spears wearing some clothes. They weren't that bad. But the guy was like "Wow... just look at those clothes... oh Birtney, Britney, what have you done now?" in this sarcastic voice, like it was the most important thing in the world. Just fucking walk down the street, some people can barely afford fuckin socks! UGHHH...

You know a civilization is in trouble when the group of people controlling most of their information is concerning itself with glamour while their sky is getting blacker and blacker and their people are stupider and stupider.

Today's important links:
www.atheist-experience.com
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

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