h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We really do live in dreadful times.

We have to watch awful talent shows (as loose a definition of “talent” is required to make this meaningful here) on TV.

These shows tell us that being smug, rude and generally unpleasant is “the way forward” in this sound bite strewn, molly coddling, petty humour riddled world.

Newspapers make “news” out of un-newsworthy events.

“We’ve found out, exclusively, this morning, that one member of a panel of people responsible for making some kind of decision that will ultimately mean nothing to anybody, didn’t agree with everyone else on the panel. This SHOCKING news came to light several days after the panel had announced its decision and thus means that not everyone agreed with the final decision. The panel were divided on the issue. So how can we be sure that what they decided was right?….”

We will be told tomorrow whether the newspaper thinks the panel were right and then the next day we’ll get another view and then the next day we will find out that one panel member is sleeping with another one…

Who cares?????

Well, as a matter of fact, I do. All this sensationalism is madness. Let’s stop this.

We are all going mad – why do we believe what we are told by the papers – why do we allow it to wind us up.

I read somewhere that nobody thinks for themselves anymore.

Did you see what I did there?

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