Well my lunch was effectively ruined by a total waste of paper article that points to American Idol as a source of family bonding time. According to the article families bond as they converse about the contestants on the show. How exactly a family benefits from watching the show is anybodies guess really, any possible benefit it might have surely escapes my brain. I could easily thrash the hosts or the whole premise of the show but that would evade the heart of the problem: vacant programming. There is nothing of substance in American Idol, it doesn't impart any form of knowledge, it simply occupies time and distracts the mind.
It amazes me that shows on the Discovery Channel or The History Channel aren't considered better programming to expose children to since they might actually learn something while sitting in front of the stupid box. Why in the hell a parent would pick such a show as Idol over something that illustrates history in a way not possible with a conventional text book is beyond me. The fact that such programming as Idol is all the rage really makes me fearful that the next generation will not be amazing but stupid, ignoranct and unable to fathom anything outside of that box which raised them. I used to think that all the doomsayers were off the reservation when they said that generations were getting progressively more stupid but after reading that article at lunch I'm beginning to think they were spot on.
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