Remember when The Buggles changed the world when they were
first aired on MTV on August 1, 1981 with Video Killed the Radio Star? Well
back then, I was nine years old and my parents didn’t have cable TV so I missed
out on that epic moment in history.
Thanks to the genius of YouTube, it acts as a bit of a time
machine, we can all go back now at that moment and re-live it in all its grandeur.
Fast forward 32 years, but first make a pit-stop at the year
1992 and slap the hell out of the MTV execs who signed off on this train wreck
called “reality TV” which began with The Real World (real world-MY ASS!)
We can now clearly document the demise of American society
and thought (or lack thereof) chronologically with the lame shit that MTV
broadcasts.
To wit:
Prior to MTV not airing music videos any longer, there were
throngs of American youth who wanted to be the next rock star. Now we have
young girls getting pregnant just to be on TV- what the hell is this world
coming to?
MTV has done a FANTASTIC job at turning the American hope
for a brighter future (i.e. our children) into a throng of fucking morons- literally,
because that’s what they’re doing- fucking.
Parents are also to blame in this catastrophe of the
American psyche because ultimately, discipline begins in the home with the
parents. The unfortunate and tragic thing though, is the “sneak attack” that occurred
in 1992 with the advent of reality TV. Back then, we thought The Real World was
amusing and cutting edge television. Those who were teenagers in 1992 are now
starting to have families of their own and think nothing of their kids
idolizing the likes of Snookie.
Within one generation MTV has spawned the death of America
as we knew it and has produced a nation of zombies- and with that, we wish you,
MTV, a very happy birthday- I can hardly wait to see what the next 32 years has
in store for us! (God help us all).
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