Just Fiddle While It Burns

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Everyone is getting stupid. Not you or us, obviously. We mean everyone else; and there's no greater bastion of the coming idiocracy than reality TV. Shows like American Idol, 16 and Pregnant, and especially Jersey Shore not only toll the bell for the dumbing down of the planet, they revel in it, begging you to distract yourself and laugh at the dregs of humanity while you continue to get fatter and dumber and easier to placate so the totalitarian corporate power that rules the world through its control of media can continue to steal our rights while we watch The Bachelor.

Whew, sorry. Blacked out there for a second. Where were we? Oh yeah, reality TV! Since we're all damned and you'll never make a dent in the tsunami of stupid, enjoy the show with Jersey Circus...

 

 

The bit is simple: juxtaposition panels from Bil Keane's interminably saccharine funny pages mainstay Family Circus with quotes from the putrid soup of humanity on MTV's Jersey Shore.

The results range from "worth looking at" to eliciting a genuine LOL. There's something to be said for tickling both our "people still read Family Circus?" and "How can anyone watch Jersey Shore?" bones simultaneously.

 

 

And that makes the decline of human civilization easier to swallow.

 



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