“I watch a lot of cable news. Because I enjoy being depressed.” – Jim Gaffigan
Boy is that guy funny. A lot of what he says is just the funny because it’s true type of humor.
Social Media isn’t the only thing that makes us depressed. Cable News is a reality horror show of epic proportions. But instead of making us feel unhappy about ourselves in the form of status anxiety, cable News makes us feel as if any minute we’re about to be trampled by a mean, bitter, divisive world war of disdain.
Here’s a re-post of a 2017 entry I called “CNMSOX”
The three headed jester laughing in our face. A stylized circle jerk at a frenetic pace. Entertainment bent on driving wedges. Fighting freaks in formal cage matches. Cable click bait. No wait, pure hate! Reveling in rants. Collectivist ideological sycophants. Whining like infants. Raving lunatics! Every night they shout in our home. Every guest a self absorbed drone. Taking sides and propagating lies that each one says is the other sides. Cutting. Slicing. To embarrass the other is icing on the cake. Fake. Doing us no justice…journalism you can’t much trust. The government media complex is clear when tuned in to them my dear. A high production fright feast. A simple minded joke at best. Preachy pundits who lecture us in their personal cathedral of catharsis. When will something come along to end this perversion that’s run too long? An evil game of keeping score that winds the toy of social war. A ratings whore. Millions of minds fallen into a hole, a trap set by remote control. And while they hold tremendous sway, we can only hope they’ll just go away.
