Pop Mockery
2004-03-27 3:14 p.m.
It humors me to no extend that we�ve become so entirely bored with our existence that we�ve begun to breed our entertainment. Everyone says they�re against engineering and creating people, as it�s unnatural, but the real fear is that once they�re created, will we be able to point and laugh at them? Will we be able to use them for our sick entertainment needs and then toss em away as we do our natural entertainers?Jo-Jo is our new pop experiment. A 13 year old singer. As my boy T. told me after his editor asked him to write a bio on her� �Her mother hates her.� And he�s right. She�s an addition to the parents who have forgotten the natural naivety involved in growing up.
As children we�re not meant to entertain the adult world. The adult world is far too immature for such things. Not that children are more mature by any means, but children actually believe our world is truth. They believe that the reviews and popular criticisms we spew actually matter. They believe that we actually know what the hell our purpose is in life, when in all actuality it�s just a bunch of people trying to get by.
And every day I�m seeing more and more sub 18 kids in the public media arena. Have we forgotten the monster we�ve created in Micheal Jackson? Well, of course we�re outwardly in denial that we could have created such a fucking weirdo, but internally we know. We know we�ve taken this poor kid and nailed him to the public arena for everyone to gawk at and then make a mockery of his existence once we got bored with him. Bored with ourselves. A mockery of ourselves.
And now we�re just hoping that once he�s gone, we�ll have made a few more failed experiments to poke fun at.