According to Yahoo News The Jersey Shores' Snooki was asked to give a commencement speech at the University of Rutgers. This is not a joke. Snooki was invited by a student committee to speak at graduation. Now this in itself is bad but when you add in the fact she is getting paid more than a Nobel Prize winning author, it becomes insulting. So now fame trumps education. It's better now to be famous for nothing than it is to be educated and motivated?Has America lost it's mind? What is wrong with this next generation, have they become so jaded about life that they would rather listen to a "party-girl" than a professional?
In all my years as an adult I have never felt so disgusted at a news item. I haven't lost all hope in the great American way of life, it's just getting hard to keep alive. We used to be pioneers, a people willing to dig in and never take "no" for an answer. Now the only things we seem to care about are slacker celebrities falling off the wagon and messing up their lives. We seem to have become sick voyeurs waiting for the famous, which we made, to fall flat on their faces. It somehow makes some people feel better about their lives. It's out of control. Why should we care about people who are nothing more than famous for being famous?
What can these self serving "me monkey's" add to anybody's life, really? When a Nobel prize winner is treated like a second banana to an over- bronzed, drunken mess who has never accomplished a thing in her life outside of starring on a reality show, we are in serious trouble kids. It's time to stop being these shallow, empty headed selfish individuals and start contributing to society again. We are zooming toward a dangerous abyss at full speed while most of us sit back and let it happen. It's time to wake up and smell the reality. We are sinking. Sinking in a pool of stupid. The way we are headed our next president is going to be the guy from the Old Spice ads. I don't know about you but to me fame for fame's sake is like being right-handed when you only have a left arm.....useless.
Just in case you are interested her advice to the graduating class: "Study hard, but party harder." Now I'm not sure but I believe this was Richard Nixon's campaign slogan.
