Angry Rant #30: Will + Kate + News = Ugh.

If I was to ever marry Beyonce, I would personally make sure that the names of our children will be so utterly different from Will and Kate that it's scary.

Yeah, even Kang or Kudos would suffice.

Of course, I'm talking about the "royal wedding" bullshit that has latched itself onto commercial television much like the proverbial plague - or perhaps it's the other way around - perhaps typical mainstream commercial news stations, as awful as they are, have latched onto this wedding because of the sheer "glamour". I'm here asking "why"?

...and why Mars Bars now have caramel in them.

Like many things throughout history, if you give something enough time, it can essentially morph from something overly negtive into something overtly positive - take for example this wedding. A royal wedding.

Now take out ALL of the "glamour" and think about what it stands for. None of those people who are so called "royal" got into power because they were good people and wanted to change society - no! They were born into it. They were born with a silverspoon in their mouth. The powers during the time of King/Queen rule heavily taxed the people under their reign because they had more money, more power and had "God" behind them. So, somewhere along the line someone in this "royal" family was a big fucking bully who used scare tactics and capital punishment to get their way. It was also a system heavily based around "God" and how he supposedly chose them to rule. So not only does this prove that religion is a farce, but proves that it was used as a tool by the powerful to oppress the weak. You speak out of turn or look the wrong way - you were very publicly taken away and killed. If you were a peasant, you hated the monarchy.

Fast-forward to today and look at what we get? Swarms of media coverage, people lining the streets to catch a glimpse of the couple as they drive past in William's inherited '58 Bentley. People wave their flags as if they're proud that these people are better off than they are! This literally makes my fucking head spin.

...Like this guy's spinny-top thing

One thing that has changed, however, is who we hate. We still hate the power, but just a democratic version which is something I find very ironic. Now with all it's flaws, a democratic government is one I would prefer to live under compared to a god-fearing hierarchical system of control. Just think about all the things that I've talked about here and imagine what would have happened if I was this outspoken during the middle ages?

I would have been a head of the competition.

So. When you flick the TV on tonight and you see this royal wedding and awful shows like Today and Sunrise are plugging the living fuck out of it, just think to yourself "these people don't deserve this so why do they get to live in old castle with a price tag beyond any real number when according to Bono a child dies in Africa from starvation every time he snaps his fingers?"

Then stop fucking clicking!!

Might just avoid commercial television until all this crap is over...or until we hear about the next earthquake that supposedly has occurred because a bunch of Mayans a few thousand years ago said so... but mostly because they thought that drawing up a calendar for 6000 years was heaps of time to do stuff until they had to draw up the next one.  

Don't believe the lies and spin.

JM