Credit Debt Cures - Why do people get so worked up about...?

Why do people get so worked up about...?

Britany and her kids, OJ and whatever he did this week, Phil Spector, The TV Doctor that was fired, Barry Bonds and steroids, the Senator in the Men's Room, Nicole Richey going to jail, Paris Hilton about anything? Why aren't people more concerned with current events that will affect their lives forever? For example, the Presidential race, the War against Terror, the state of the economy, the housing foreclosures in America, $90+ a gallon oil, what Congress is or is not doing, the conditions of the highways, roads, and bridges, the overcrowding of the airways, the need to find cures and not to judge how we find those cures, and the value of the dollar? I believe that people have their priorities messed up. The celebrity part of my question is for me just interesting garbage. The current events part of my question is important to anyone, anywhere, and at any time. Just look around your neighborhood and see the number of for sale signs. Look at your credit card interest. Thimk

Public Comments

Its all because the TV's power of brainwashing. Usual suspects: Fox CNN MTV
exactly thats what i have been emphasising all long, too bad the stupid people here are so obsessed with bloody mccans
The current crop of people are way too preoccupied to be bothered with the stuff that you mention.All power to you
It's easier to focus on smaller targets
Current events can be so depressing. Watching celebrity drama is more fun and appealing to people.
LOL 'thimk'...anyhoot....different age groups are interested in different aspects of life....some of the younger generations have no awareness or interest in world politics...the price of oil etc...its as simple as that....your obvious not a young man....and you havent realized this?....you have to post it as a question on a worldwide forum? maybe you need to 'think'.
Because it is escapism from the troubles in their lives, if you worry about Britney then you don't need to worry about the credit card bill. People do not want to face reality, they run away from responsibility focusing their attentions on the lives of the rich and famous. I worry about my children's education, the war in Iraq, Afghanistan (my husband is deployed there in Feb), the price of fuel, health care. I find I have no time for the celebrity culture that consumes so many in the West. I think a lot about the world I live in, not the vacant world of a few over privileged airheads.
preggers, i think that was his point, that younger generations have no political motivation or awareness. this needs addressing! it might not be cool, or whatever, and no i'm not of the older generation either. but the questioner is right, to much emphasis is placed on things and people that really dont matter instead of things that do matter. things that affect your life and your childrens lifes.
Small things amuse small minds.
Love your questions, William B. I think that people who get all caught up in these kind of pseudo news stories are unwittingly in collusion with the corporate media to keep us all distracted from what is truly important. I'm not usu. into conspiracy theories, but this stuff is insidious. Imagine how different our world would be if enough people were to break free from this addictive, mind-numbing garbage long enough to wake up, come together, and do what needs to be done about the more important issues that are affecting us. It's a form of collective codependency: focusing on and then going on and on about other people's lives (esp. the lives of celebrities) in order to feel better about our own lives or to distract ourselves from our own lives, which then become seemingly unmanageable. I'm sure this is not true of all of us, but, imo, if even just a critical mass of us would break out of the dream, out of the matrix, we could create a better world for all of us. It's all so strange to me. Yet some people think I am strange because I do not watch television and I do not listen to popular music. I really wish we would all wake up and stop this nonsense. But there I go again being "too idealistic," right? I wonder... Someone once said that I would probably ask Santa Claus for world peace. :) In hope and peace, Indie
I always try to keep up to date with world events, and those more local to me (UK). As for the celebrity thing, well I tend to skip past or cloud my own vision when I see an article in the newspaper, or flick the channel when I hear about it on TV. Don't get me started on those people. They're just over-glofied individuals with a higher-paid, public job than some of us. As for those socialite sponges.....*shudder*
it spices up our lives.