18: Most shit just doesn’t matter

The number of times I’ve tied myself in figurative knots over things which have turned out to be (and in reality always were) complete and utter shit is staggering. I wish I learnt this one way before I was 30.

Few things are actually, really important and they are all pretty obvious but not appreciated until they are lost. Health would be #1. Love would be #2 (giving and getting) and arguably #1. #3 for men is probably career or at least dollars in return for labour; aka contribution. For women, #3 would be family, I guess. And career. 🤷‍♂️#woke #glassceiling #etcetc

I’ll take this opportunity to rant a little at the media. Like any business, they need to create income. They sell advertising space to create revenue from presenting information packaged in a particular style defined by the publisher. Not fucking rocket science. So then, why do they present so much fucking bullshit like, at the time of writing, Karl Stefanovic’s divorce, marriage, removal from hosting duties of the Today show and his brother’s ah, let’s call it firing, from the same program? FFS, it just doesn’t matter. I get the vultures are circling mentality of the competing networks and rival print publications but seriously if you read this shit you are either next to be fired from that show or are so fucking devoid of mental function that I suggest you take a long walk off of a short pier.

This world has serious problems which need serious solutions and the most powerful and influential industry in the world feeds the masses on who’s fucking who. Well, fuck that shit. We need to stop clicking on those links, reading those bullshit, made up stories. They are nothing but a distraction to get us to look at ads for shit we don’t need to impress people we don’t care about.

These are the two finest examples of the problem. The first written by my favourite TV screenwriter, Arron Sorkin is from ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip‘ which I don’t think ever aired in Australia. The scene shows the Executive Producer of a Saturday Night Live TV show loses his shit on-air and rage against the industry.

The second is from what inspired the first, Paddy Chayefsky’s seminal 1976 movie ‘Network‘.

I AM AS MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!