A WEALTH OF WORTHLESSNESS

For those of you who have followed my blog since its beginning, a familiarity has developed with regard to my style of expression.  You have suffered through my rants on everything from the credit card companies to transgender supermodels.  I have curtailed these arguments as of late, fearing that off-topic discussions were an unwelcome interruption in the saga of my weight-loss journey.  I assume most of you tune in to check on my progress, not endure my sometimes heavy arguments for or against something.  But this is my blog, my truth, my forum, and while I enjoy sharing it with the world and making others happy...to thine own self be true! 


So ladies and gentlemen without further adieu, I present to you my beef of the week!  My disgust with television continues to grow.  We've covered how sedentary activities negatively affect your physicality in KILL YOUR TELEVISION but have we spoken of the mental damage it can do??  There is a disturbing trend among reality TV shows these days, and it represents an even more disturbing mindset.  It is a preoccupation with wealth, and I don't mean the spiritual kind.  As if we all haven't suffered enough through the mindless drama of The Kardashians and the Housewives of every sector from Atlanta to Orange County, now we have a new show on the Style Network called Big Rich Texas!

What!?!  Seriously, how much more flaunting from the affluent society can our citizens take before waking up and changing the channel?!?  Do we need a show called, I Have Everything, You Have Nothing??  Or how about, I Waste More Money In Five Minutes Than You'll Earn In Your Lifetime, or how about just, Nah Nah, Nah Nah Nah! 

Let me tell you something, in my current financial position I have zero desire to watch a bunch of no-talent, backstabbing, ladies continue to increase the size of their wealth by sharing their excessive lifestyles on camera.  What I can't understand, is why there aren't more people out there who feel like I do?

With the state of our economy, the joblessness, the thousands of Americans that lost their homes this year, and the continually broadening gap that exists between the haves and the have-nots, do we really need another program showcasing how the rich spend $286,000 on diamond-studded dog collars!?  It was easy to chalk this sensation up to America's fascination with celebrity status when the people being followed were in deed celebrities.  But now that we are talking about groups of people unknown outside of their circle of socialite friends, it's time to call it what it is- America's obsession with wealth! These folks aren't actors or singers or even British Royalty.  They are people with one central talent, the ability to cut a check in any amount desired.

I have nothing against money or the many hardworking Americans that have been fortunate enough to come by it, but the celebrity status we've awarded them is just mind blowing.  The arrogance that now accompanies these "celebrities" as they publicly brag about filing bankruptcy in one sentence, and introduce a new cookbook in another, is appalling.  Who do you think pays for such atrocities??  We do.  We pay when they don't pay their creditors, and we pay again when we reward their bad behavior with cookbook sales!

Why a nation jam-packed with struggling families would waste their time calling this fool-hearted display of wealth, entertainment, is beyond me.  It is so sad that we are raising a generation to prize wealth more than decency; that we will rear our children to look up to the very people that are stealing from them.  I think everyone dreams of having more money.  Me, I think I'd settle right now for just getting close to the American Dream.  But at the end of the day, I guess I'm just someone looking to enrich my life in a different way.


“This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.” -George W. Bush