The Downward Spiral

Every great society has its downfall. Empires follow stages from inception to their eventual crumble. The Mayans, The Aztecs, The Romans, The Greeks, The Chinese Dynasties, all of them masters of their day. They don’t exist now though. Today, we are the Romans. America dominates the world. Our ideas, our language, and our commerce controls how the rest of the world goes about its daily business.

So what will be our downfall? In my opinion, it will be 24-hour news networks. Not just Fox news and it’s bullshit, but all 24 hour news networks. Last night prior to about 5:00pm Central Standard Time, all these assholes were talking about was the hurricane and how people were evacuating and how devastating it had the potential to be and blah blah blah blah blah lets fill more fucking airtime.

Suddenly, there was a new tragedy to focus on that was much more exciting. An airplane with its front landing gear turned 90°. Oh shit! It’s going to have to land in a few hours let’s focus on that now. Who wouldn’t want to be on the air when the Hindenburg goes up in flames? We may get to see a live plane crash. Then these dickheads start talking about how well trained the airline personnel are and what might happen if the strut breaks and blah blah blah blah lets fill more fucking airtime until this baby crashes and some people die.

Then when the masterfully skilled pilot was able to gracefully touch the aircraft down and slowly put the front landing gear in contact with the ground, you could hear the disappointment in the newscasters voice as the plane rolled to a stop, not on fire, all 140 people safe. What a bunch of bastards. 2 hours later it was back to the killer hurricane. What a bunch of dicks. Fuck all those 24 hour news douche bags. There’s my prediction, they’ll end up destroying us all.