Blog n' Rant

Did you ever...?

Did you ever get tired of the hype? One of the worst things for a person's mental health is hype. It can do one of two things to you.

One I call the heroin effect. You always need more and you buy into the hype deeper and deeper everytime you get a chance to fix. All of a sudden you are eyeballs deep in a vat of pop culture excriment and you are succumed to the world and it's sinful pleasures. This effect is usually displayed by the very weakminded that are results of having been raised by a television. Hype is a stimulus that holds an unbelieveable amount of negative influence to a person that is either crying out for nurturing and attention, or simply to a child that wants to learn. Most of the time what, pop culture has to teach is the first and only thing that child will learn. When they learn the world's defination of life first, it is alot harder to let them know what the truth is later.

The second way hype can effect (or infect) you goes this way. It can make you the most bitter, cynical, miserable person in the world. Guess which one I turned out to be.

I hope beyond hope that somday I will be past this stage of being so hurt by the world and the pop around me. I realize good and well that my problem, the thing that causes the emptyness in me, is that I cannot change the unchangable world around me. That's not to say I stop trying to make a dent, but I feel painfully inadiquite that I cannot fix the whole thing. Hype has left me hating it and sullen in that I cannot stop it all.

When I was in the world, I lived for the hype. Everything from the pot to the porn was extreme in my life. It took almost losing my family, my life, and everything to see that nothing in the rhelm of worldly pleasures will ever satisfy. EVER. So I turned my life from the junk and I stopped disobeying the whole false idol commandment.

For a while I was much worse in my cynical stage. Dawn would tell you I'm still the same. Really what it boils down to is that the hype in the world today sickens me. Everything is hyped to sell. Wether it's a product, an adgenda, or hype it's self. Example: You couldn't watch one thing Superbowl week this year without hearing a mention of a wordrobe malfunction. There is constant fallout from that STAGED publicity stunt that will haunt us forever... all in thanks to the hype.

This morning I heard on the news about Superbowl Commercial Payoffs. It was about what commercials did the best promotion for its company. The absolutly sickest ad was by GoDaddy. I used to go to them to buy EVERY domain name I needed. Their commercial got me so angry. I thought this year would be different and not focus on sex to sell products. Well, it seems that GoDaddy's sales have increades by 40% since the softcore porn commercial. WHAT DOES SEX HAVE TO DO WITH DOMAIN NAMES AND HOSTING???

I just wish man would understand... porn does not satisfy, drugs do not satisfy, alcohol does not satisfy and this imaginary world of no rules and the attitude of 'live for the moment' created and hyped by the pop culture, the media, and Paris and her ilk will not satisfy. You see, with all these things, there is nothing to look forward to except for that next fix. In Christ there is a reason.

posted by todAnthony @ 1:07 PM