i think humanity is taking a turn for the worse, and i dont know if we can ever recover from it. Maybe im overreacting, maybe its just American culture, but I am seeing far too much admiration going to the wrong trends and the wrong types of people. america leads the world when it comes to entertainment so i assume theres at least some sort of a ripple effect.
              Why do people look up to gangsters, hustlers, cracked out popstars, and spoiled heiresses?  50 cent shouldnt be a role model, hes a scumbag thats lucky to be alive. it isnt bc hes "from the streets" that he survived, he got lucky.  but thats beside the point, what makes this guy a musician? can we even call him an artist? he spits rhymes into a microphone, a producer drops a beat onto a track and all of a sudden he deserves the respect of millions?
 this stuff isnt music, and he isnt an artist. hes an entertainer, more a circus clown than a visionary. if the money wasnt rolling in, he wouldnt even be cutting tracks, and hes said that himself. thats not what art is about.
and then theres people like britney spears, this girl should have been put out in a cabin in the wilderness and forgotten about. it wouldve been better for her and the industry as a whole if she disappeared from the public eye. but no, i gotta deal with her shitty music, crazy antics, and worst of all, her nasty snatch in every tabloid. everytime i see a myspace with the headline "its [insert name here] bitch" it pisses me off to no end. why do you listen to that garbage? for christ sakes im sure you can find something else to dance to, if thats all you find important. 
              im not going to delve into anymore examples...  like tila tequila,  paris hilton, or lil wayne, im just gonna say fuck em. the point that im trying to make is we cannot admire trashy people in our culture because it will encourage trashy behavior. I guarantee criminal activity and drug abuse would drop substantially if people had some class when it came to entertainment.
 
Honor, pride, and respect- ive said it all my life, if you dont hold these ideals close youre lost.

...sigh i dont know why i posted this, i doubt anybody will read it, perhaps i just needed to vent. Ive been seeing too much greed and treachery in the news and i think its because no one has faith in doing the right thing anymore.  everyone just wants to get rich or drunk or laid and no one cares what happens to anyone else. its sad, humanity used to have unity but as the years pass the people next to us become strangers.