The Actual disclaimer off MTV's web site:
"MTV insists that our viewers do not send in any home footage of themselves or others being jackasses. We will not open or view any submissions, so don't waste your time."
Hasn't MTV's Jackass proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that people that want to censor what we hear and see for the sake of society have some merit behind their position?
One need not look any further than those teenagers that severely broke that drive thru tellers arm at the Taco Bell trying to run by and grab the product as she tried to hand it to a customer, or the kids that were arrested after tossing around the dead cat in front of a pet store, or how about the kids that jumped into the frozen food case at a grocery store in their underwear, or better yet, how about the kids that stole a steamroller and took it for a joy ride or the worst of all, the kid that set himself on fire. Each and every last one of these dumbasses (except for the fire kid) film themselves doing the prank and told authorities that were trying to imitate a MTV Jackass stunt.
I am convinced, kids are no smarter than our pets; they just speak our language.
Jackass's effect on American youth is more proof than anyone should ever need to see that censorship is a necessary evil.
I am not about to say I am going to champion a censorship movement but I wouldn't be who I am if I didn't honestly say that I believe in the depth of stupidity in my species, and that belief forces me to at least consider that society would be a better place if we didn't have certain ideas floating around.
Even if I did have the right to censor I would never censor books for one simple reason.the people that are most dangerous to society don't read.
Books are safe.
That is why I can get away saying the things that I do each week. Words are like Syphilis to an idiot. If you write your thoughts down idiots will stay away from you like you have open sores on your privates. If gangster rap was published in paperback America's youth would still be thinking Vinnie Barbarino was the toughest son-of-a-bitches on the planet.
The other reason censorship makes sense is because an idiot is incapable of coming up with some of these ideas like backyard wrestling all by his lonesome. Idiots are by nature copycat criminals and pranksters. You shoot up a high school and they shoot up their high school. If you fuck a cat, they go fuck a cat. They don't come up with these ideas all on their own. They couldn't if you paid them.
Most of the people that come up with these ideas first would never in a million years actually do what they are writing or talking about. They being the impetus or the catalyst of the troublesome idea, they almost always understand what consequences are. That is why they deal in fantasy. They write gangster films, idiots get inspired and join gangs. They write more and more outrageous professional wrestling plots, and then 12 year olds start going to prison for life for pile driving 6 year olds into the hard wood floors of their apartments.
That is why television and film are the most dangerous weapons society has. Ideas enter into the minds of idiots and all they have to do it just sit there and absorb them. I say if we are going to held under the gun by these bastards at least make them work at by putting it in a book.
Rules are made for the weak. This is how it has to be. Why? Because idiots are also incapable of recognizing that they are the problem. They are the ones that are always saying, "that won't happen to me, I am different". Why do you have to lose all of your fucking life savings at the casino before you realize you have a problem? Why do you have to be in fucking prison looking at 65 years to life before you question the validity of how "real" Eminem lyrics actually were?
Because you are fucking clueless that is why.
On some level you know what I am saying is true. I can see you nodding your head as you read this.
Once Ideas get tossed into the bouillabaisse of cultural consciousness it is a bitch to get them out. Like the first rapper to get gold caps on all of his god damn teeth. Is there anything that says, "I am trifling" more than that? It may be 30 years before that idea gets placed in a history book and therefore instantly extinguished from the zeitgeist.
The first kid to shoot up his high school if you follow my logic is at least in part responsible for every other school shooting after his because that gave other idiots his same age that idea. Hemmingway might have had a character in one of his books shoot his high school but it doesn't count because nobody that would do it ever read it. It is amazing Hitler did all that he did. He probably was selling copies of Mein Kampf from a picnic basket on the back of his bike before he took office. I bet his own storm troopers never even read it.
Honestly, these people can't even recognize when they are being feed the same thing if it you just place it in a slightly different package. You can take something you have seen a million times like your typical medieval Camelot plot, use all the same familiar characters the knight, a queen and king, a princess and a few wizards toss in a robot call it Star Wars and make 15 Billion.
It's been done before. |