Friday, October 2, 2009

JUMPING THE SHARK

Listen, they're not proud moments. You think you've got the world figured out, and for the first time in years, everything's starting to make some sense. Then, right on cue, some asshole in a leather jacket barrels through, all thumbs up and AYYYYYYYYYs, and vaults over a bunch of Great Whites. The human brain isn't meant to see things like that.
Ever since Henry Winkler changed the meaning of "going overboard" for all time, it seems like real life is jumping the shark more and more each year. Or maybe it's just that, thanks to the technological advances since Happy Days, we as a people can find these flabbergastingly "What The F" moments in humanity with alarming speed. Especially since the takeoff of social media sites like Youtube, the average internet peruser can find more ludicrous examples of humanity in a half-hour than the average Roman citizen would in a lifetime. And they had vomitoriums, which, for those who don't know, are exactly what they sound like.
We really need to all get a grip on ourselves. I don't know how many more hundreds of times I can see common sense, basic human intelligence and all sense of cultural decency get thrown out the window. It's starting to hurt my head, and every time someone says we're living in "the land of the Free," the pangs get worse.