I would just like to make 2 comments:
1) The girl doesn't need to be in jail. Paris Hilton may be an idiot, a whore, a drug abuser, a vapid asshole...but doesn't that describe most of us...or what most of us would like to be. A bubble headed idiot with no conceivable idea of the way the real world works. Wouldn't we all love to be this blissfully ignorant. Still, that is no reason to put her in jail. I hear people saying that "if it was me I would be in jail..." actually, you wouldn't. According to newspapers, most people wouldn't spend one day in jail for her offense. She was caught driving on a suspended license twice....well...sorry to disappoint the Paris Hilton haters (to which I am one...not for the money..but because she obviously don't swallow and that is a bad message for all young girls) but you wouldn't go to jail. The LA County jail system is overwhelmed...so throwing someone into jail for this offense is almost never going to happen.
2) Why do people want this madness to continue? So she can be more famous? So we the taxpayers can spend more fucking money on this idiot? No, it is because somewhere in our brains we want the world to be fair...well guess what...IT ISN'T FUCKING FAIR!!! People work hard to get more money so life will be tilted to their favor...that is called capitalism...that is the United States of America. Paris isn't going to jail because she broke the law. Paris is going to jail because the celebrity obsessed losers in this country hate her for what she has...and hate themselves for what they don't have.
I would love to write some long diatribe about the perversions of justice and the inequalities between the rich and the poor...BUT I HAVE A BRAIN...and I am not going to type out some bullshit that would make people feel better about their own situation. I would also like to be rich enough one day that the laws of this, and every other country, don't apply to me...so that I can do whatever the fuck I want and have no one call me on it. The United States of America promises us two things...if you are poor you will get fucked at every turn...if you are rich you will live your life without much worry. Amen! It gives us middle class folks something to aspire towards...autonomy.
If Paris and her fellow celebrity simpletons are guilty of anything, it is that they pushed it too far and too public. There used to be an understanding between the public and the rich and famous. The public would let them do whatever they wanted, and in turn they would let the public keep paying for their expensive lifestyle. It was fair. Now the excesses of the rich suddenly turn our stomachs? This is more than just disingenuous...it is complete and total fucking bullshit. Those rag mags like the Star and Enquire, the "mainstream" rag mags like People, and websites like Perez Hilton are a multi billion dollar a year business!! Jay Leno got his biggest ratings when Hugh Grant came on after being with a hooker. Celebrity tell all books are constantly best sellers. The American public is obsessed with celebrity and we love watching celebrities fuck up...people will pay to see it happen, they will pay to read about it, they will pay to revel in someone's misfortune...especially if they are wealthy and famous. Now suddenly everyone is going to act like we should treat celebrities "the same as regular people." GO FUCK YOURSELVES if you have heard yourself say this stupid phrase.
Who are these "regular people"? Are these "regular people" living in Watts? South Central? Cabrini Green? North Philly? OR do we mean middle class folks...like most of ourselves..the assholes who would spend their time emailing talk shows in the middle of the day? I have af eeling that the truly poor have a hard enough time and seen enough inequity not to give a flying fuck about Paris Hilton or any of that shit. They are just tying to survive...while middle class America gets their panties in a twist...because they are closer to that life of luxury than they are the life of abject poverty and daily violence.
This is middle class bullshit. Plain and simple. A nation full of medicated, therapy going, babies who just can't accept that Marx was right...money talks. Everything else doesn't mean a fucking thing...and because they are close enough to smell favoritism...but can't touch it...they get mad...they get jealous...they want revenge.
I leave you with a part of my favorite poem I have posted here before, and when my audio player works (myspace fucking sucks!) you can hear...this just keeps running through my head when I think about this stupidity.
beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
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