someone tell me ...

what exactly the fuck is wrong with the world?

i look at the new york times, following a nice weekend in which i paid little attention to the outside world, only to find that aparently, people have stopped caring about the continuing death in iraq. in fact, why the fuck are we even talking about the president of the ukraine?

ok, i understand that there is a lot of natural gas in the ukraine. but really, i don't give a fuck. i don't understand why we focus on this kind of shit at all. they go on and on about voter fraud in other countries, but no one seems to care about the likely voter fraud here in the united states.

this is why other countries don't like us. we are so quick to point our puritan little fingers at anything that we don't like, or more accurately, anything that we think is not "possible" in america. but all the time, we are walking around without any mirrors.

i guess it's foolish to try and characterize an entire country by looking at a single newspaper. of course, it's not a single newspaper. it always seems that whatever the times puts as the most important stories, all of the other papers just seem to follow suit. (wow! that was a horrible sentence!)

but the larger question is whether or not the media represent what the people think. and i guess that's a harder question as well. i don't think that the majority of people care enough to follow what goes on in the world at all. most of my friends do not read a daily paper. they just find that kind of news boring.

but these are the same people who are not at all interested in taking any part in america as a political entity. so i am not sure they even count.

and as for the others, well ... i am not at all convinced that they are not being told what to think about by the media they consume. unfortunately, i am not the type of person to pay much mind to the nightly news, and i do realize that it's the nightly news that often delivers america its dose of current events.

i guess i don't really have an answer. i just know that i am not happy with my fellow americans. and it's not the ones that don't pay attention that bother me. if you don't care, then don't care. but if you do care, do me a favor and stop regurgitating the bullshit that our subsstandard media feed us. i am just convinced that those people don't really know anything at all.