Three Cheers for a Mutated Swine Flu

Over the past month or more I've had to watch these ridiculous town-hall meetings in the States where the American people have really shown themselves to be the complete fucking idiots they are. How utterly fucking dumb would you have to be to follow the likes of Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh or anyone else on FOX that gets a daily soap-box on which to spew, not just lies, but dumb lies. Anyone with half a brain could see through the crap, but not most Americans, who believe in things like angels, aliens, and Jesus (less likely to have existed than the tooth fairy). But they stand up and scream, "Obama is turning my country into Russia. He's a socialist." If they weren't so god-damned fucking stupid, they would already realize that socialism already exists for the rich in America, hence the tax-payer bailout of the filthy banks and auto industries. The middle class and poor will never get rid of the boot of capitalism standing on their necks. They worry about the government running "death panels" deciding whether Grandma will get the help she needs, when the insurance companies they are fighting for already guarantee she won't. Partisan politics and racism towards a black president leaves the whole world tied to a dying empire sinking in quicksand. You'd think people who were smart enough to design missiles that fly down the chimneys of children's hospitals could get their heads out of their collective asses long enough to stop fighting about made up bullshit.

And the more I watch the 21st century turning into a de-enlightenment of sorts, the more I want to see every single human wiped off the face of the earth. What garbage the human race has turned out to be. Given all the resources and technology at our disposal to do good and help people, we have let a select few rule the roost. Those of us living in Oceania (read 1984) get to be distracted by the worst bullshit imaginable. American Idol, Paris Hilton, any reality television, FOX news, any news, beauty pageants, etc. Shit-coms are the worst. There is some funny TV out there (30 Rock, My Name is Earl, Flight of the Conchords), but mostly it's just the worst writing I've ever seen. One of my channels here runs something called Monday Night Laughs. The only thing they got right was that it's on Monday night. How I Met Your Mother, Kath and Kim , and Rita Rocks make me think there is a plot by the networks to make television so unwatchable, that people will only want the cheaper reality television that makes me want to shoot my TV in the face.

So what hope is there? The promise of a mutated swine flu (sorry...H1N1), an asteroid, global warming, earthquakes, zombies, 2012? Any one would be richly deserved, and I'm sure the cave dwelling survivors would immediately go to war over the right to the movie about the end of civilization once they reinvent film. Fuck you, America.

(Maybe I'd be in a better mood if unseasonably large storms in both Asia and the Americas hadn't cut me off from msn, facebook and several other websites I tend to frequent on a daily basis. I really need for this shit to get fixed)