Monday, 23 March 2009

He'll Build A Glass Asylum

Back in January I was originally going to write about Tommy Sheridan hitting rock bottom and appearing on prolefeed-contest "Celebrity" Big Brother. Instead the bilge-circus centred around a non-entity has enraged me. I'll refrain from mentioning who this non-entity is, though it should be obvious given the saturation of the non-story.

Looking at the BBC News frontpage I saw a discussion about Patient 0's legacy. Let's look at this "legacy":
  • gained 'fame' by appearing on wet t-shirt voyeurathon
  • cemented 'celebrity' by appearing on version of said voyeurathon for people desperate to cling onto fame/preserve ego
  • revealed themself to be a loud-mouthed bigot amongst other loud-mouthed bigots on same show
  • became tabloid-fodder
  • started dying
  • became tabloid-darling
Do you know how many people died somewhere on the world because they couldn't get fresh water, and yet this untermensch is all anyone is thinking about? It's a putrid display of people's warped priorities. Did this person cure cancer? NO. And why bother.
Long live the new flesh.

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