Credibility

Wednesday I was sitting in a restaurant in Tampa.  I was SHOCKED when I looked at the television screen to see Gene Simmons talking from the NYSE.  I thought, “What in the world can Gene Simmons have to say about the market; and, honestly, WHO WANTS TO KNOW?!”

It’s not that I have anything against Gene Simmons.  My issue is that Americans have degraded themselves to consuming life changing information the same way we do cheeseburgers.  We want something that we don’t have to think about.  Celebrity informants do that for us.  They give it to us “our way”, comfortable, with a smile and not requiring any thought.

As a society, we are so easily directed by mass culture.  We lose our identity in the status of those with whom we associate, or wish to associate.  We fail to think for ourselves.

Our childhood idols become our advisers in our adult years.

It scares the crap out of me.  There will be a day when the Olson twins motivate a voting public.

Isn’t it time we demand more ?