And I'm talking about the Hilton and not the city of lights! The whole 3 day jail thing is really so ridiculous and totally ruining my Friday morning news round-up!! Grrrrh!!!
It seems that Ms. Hilton took ill during her 3 days in jail - she stopped eating! Hey, here's a thought - maybe this is NORMAL behaviour for her and no one outside her circle of nutty enablers has noticed it until now!
Anyway, I think this is a really good example of what Gore is talking about in his recent book, "The Assault on Reason" and the trivialisation of news etc.
And you know, people keep dying around the world, being incorrectly incarcerated, tortured and displaced from their homes as we focus on this nonsense...if it isn't Paris today, its Anna Nicole's death, Britney's hair etc etc....and living in LA we get bombarded by this stuff during local news headlines as well!
Sigh...I asked for this when I missed pop culture whilst in Brussels.
I'm generally feeling very anti-consumerism and overwhelmed by advertising around me. I think LA is worse than other cities for that as billboards for tv shows and movies dominate the landscape, along with regular advertising for toothpaste, clothes etc.
Or maybe I'm just old and want to live on a farm (like Barbara Kingsolver), eating what I grow (so basically, with my record of growing plants, I'll starve like Paris) and feeling more in-tune with nature...or to travel somewhere less commercial (like Mongolia???).
Finished my trauma class yesterday...more on that later.
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How about the Maldives it seems really nice!
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