This chick haunts my dreams. She was sent to earth to lower standards for human kind.
I was sitting around and got angry that I have to see Kim Kardashian’s face all the time. Its presence makes no sense if you think about it. She was a B-list porn actress born to a scumbag most currently notable for illegally withholding evidence in the OJ Simpson case. The unwatchable staged show in which she stars as part of an ensemble cast has far worse ratings than Wipeout, which is a show about people falling into water. Yet I don’t feel the omnipresence of Wipeout contestants needling my psyche, being photographed in patently uninteresting scenarios, or trying to sell health products, even though most contestants on Wipeout are in better shape than Kim Kardashian.
She doesn’t seem like a good role model, judging by the phony arranged marriages, the fact that she is uneducated even though she is from a privileged background, and from what I understand has no interests hobbies or talents, and of course, the pornography.
I think it comes down to laziness.
Around the time Kim Kardashian became popular, the United States was invading Iraq. The American Press Corps, newly consolidated by corporate mergers, failed the American people by withholding facts, and were intimidated into representing an overwhelmingly pro-invasion view in their tone, sources, and the experts they quoted (and are still quoting as authorities on the subject, which is weird, because I think the homeless guy on my block wearing a birdcage on his head would be as credible as Dick Cheney on that subject anyway.)
From what I remember, you had to be famous for being interesting or cool before this time. But right around then Kim Kardashian started popping up everywhere, and then it got worse.
Here’s how this conversation used to go:
Hi, this is Kim Kardashian’s publicist. I need you to show up outside of Hyde tomorrow around 5 and take some photos of Kim because she is releasing a new perfume.
Um, no.
Why not?
That’s boring. What does she even do?
Well, she goes places and you take pictures of her.
Are you insane? Why would I want to waste mine and my readership’s hard earned time by taking photos of this chick so she can sell perfume? Tell her to get cast in a movie or something if she wants her picture taken. Can’t she write a song? Is this the same chick who made a professional pornographic video and sent a bunch of copies to this very office and then claimed it was an amateur homemade tape that was leaked? What a loser.
I’ll show you! She’s going to have show someday where we just show her sitting around in the kitchen!
Please do not call here again.
But it all changed. Journalists got lazy. They had already stopped caring about their country, and then they stopped caring about the quality of their work. Why would they go out of their way to secure decent content when Kim’s people could tell them where to show up and they’d get paid the same.
As people became more disenfranchised with reality and the economy crumbled, they were increasingly enamored by the wealthy lifestyle portrayed on her show, and none of the characters had jobs. And the brilliant part was they called it reality television. The American Dream was suddenly to become a rich slob.
Before long fools with cameras were lining up to take photos of Kim or Paris Hilton getting out of a car and they didn’t even know why. They just knew it was easy and people were starting to buy into it.
Collectively the Press, the state of television, and Americans lives took a step backward, and that is why I think seeing Kim Kardashian’s face everywhere makes me angry.