I Declare War

I was making risotto earlier today with the TV on in the background. When I took a moment to look up, I saw a commercial for some show called 'The Kardashians Take New York' or some shit.

And shit it was.

It blows my mind the utter gunk garbage that gets on television these days.

In fact, not to be judgmental or anything, but there are waaaayyyy too many jerkjackoffs filling the tube making too much money. And guess what? They make it because people are actually watching.

I mean, who are the Kardashians exactly? I vaguely recall one being on a sex video tape and next thing we know she's "important?"

Fuck off.

It's the Paris Hilton disease.

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So what's the solution, then?

Well, I'll tell you.

Lights Linus, please.

What we need is a good, old fashioned plague followed by a Dark Age to purge us of all the clowns who make it to the top including those taking important political and social decisions. I mean, I can't listen to the radio without someone making an asinine comment be it political, sports related or whatever else.

Once gone, and I'm afraid some good people will die too, humanity will benefit from bright minds who will take over and catapult mankind into another age of enlightenment.

Maybe then people will shrug their shoulders in disinterest when a "report" about Angelina Jolie makes it on the front page of a website or newspaper.

Thank you.

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My biggest fear in life is having my daughter copy idiots on TV or sitting around listening to crappy music and watching programming that is specifically designed to destroy brain cells.

In order to prevent this I must play my part.

For example, I play a game called "Country, Continent or Planet?" with my daughter. I'll ask 20 questions like "Canada: Country, continent or planet?" And she has to guess which one.

She's pretty good at it now.

I realized the only way she'll have a fighting chance is if I take the time to teach her that learning is important. I want her to be able to critically assess, thinkand decide things for herself.

So today I decided to take the game up a notch. I spent $60 on - including a math-phonics-spelling-vocabulary book for first graders. She's in kindergarten - an Atlas and a book about maps for kids. In them, they discuss the planets, space, reading comprehension of maps and stuff like "Longitude and Latitude."

My wife takes care of cornerstone, bedrock, foundational things like reading, math and spelling since she's a teacher. I can offer other things. My interests lie in the stuff school is increasingly overlooking like geography and history. Slowly, I'm teaching her about basic financial concepts like "currency," "Saving," "bank accounts" and the like.

Geography in particular is losing its place in schools I reckon.

Alas, that won't happen here.

Slowly, she'll learn to appreciate knowledge for its own sake and this will lead to natural wisdom. After that, it's all up to her but at least I will have planted the seeds of curiosity in her.

I've declared my own private war on the Kardashian-Hilton scourge.