"Damn Yankees, I Mean Commies!"

Maybe Dick Cheney is a commie.  Maybe many of the wealthy elitist businessmen in America are Reds.  Maybe they used to be on a list back in the day, a time when America searched for and persecuted American citizens with a communist interest.  What kind of publications do you read?  Do you attend party events?  Reds. Commies.  We as a nation have lost track.  Are we not interested anymore?  Is China too far away, further than the U.S.S.R, to drum up anticommunist support?  Certainly North Korea is in the public eye as is Iran, but commies?  Reds?  Once upon a time in America this battle was paramount.  It helped define America as did our nightly television schedule.  That line up of programs on network TV before the cable explosion helped define a nation.  We lived by it, that televisions schedule.  We waited patiently for the new schedule in the fall and new shows.  Now it is all gone.  Tim Cook speaking with Charlie Rose a year ago scorned this television schedule.  Whether he acknowledges it or not as CEO of Apple, television once was an art form.  It came out of vaudeville, stage, theater, Broadway, and the minstrel shows.  Once television was entertainment, and it was approached with the same respect and devotion as other art forms.  Then television required talent and when it was excellent, artistry.  Craft can substitute in a pinch, but the performers were shooting for artistry.  Now it is all gone.  Time/Life bought it all, and now they are selling it in boxed sets for a hundred dollars a pop.  I have bought some of it.  The thing is, we used to get it for free.  We used to have clean drinking water for free.  We used to have clean air and a cooler planet.  Now we have "reality."  Flick on the box and watch your coworkers fill time with lame, uninteresting, emotionally laden soap.  The Golden Age of Hollywood has continued.  While there may not be lavish musicals, still we have movies that are well-made and cared for.  Film continues, but television is dead.  Why is television dead?  Ask Tim Cook.  It is so antiquated, that interface sitting in your family room with your loved ones.  I think that is a gay thing.  In America we lived our lives with and by that box, and it was a good thing.  It gave us direction.  It gave us a mainstream.  It gave us unity.  Now we have nothing, except a handful of lame late night talk show hosts.  The guys that bent the shaft, that questioned and ridiculed the man, and thought for themselves as adults bailed.  The void in late night TV is inescapable.  The thing is, I don't want to choose the schedule.  That's what a CEO is for.  It is his job to hone that talent, begin careers, and satisfy America viewing tastes.  Naw, screw it.  Anything goes.  The same is true with music.  Let's just not care about anything excellent.  I am getting deja vu.  Slackers?  Grunge?  Baggie pants?  Flannel?  Low key?  They had a voice, and it was music.  That movement had a message, a voice, and a following.  Today our voice is Kanye West, and he is not qualified to be on stage as a musician.  It is bought and paid for.  While I have empathy for Bruce Jenner, and watching him transition is entertaining to me for some reason, he is just another aging frustrated man looking for notoriety?  Is he?  I would like to know more.  Is he leaving his 'wife?'  Does he not love her anymore?  Does he have feelings for men, or does he just like to dress in women's clothes to get off?  Join the club.  I don't think Bruce Jenner would have gotten a television show otherwise.  Is that motivation enough to change your sex?  Television is not what it used to be.  Reality is a term effectively which eliminated the competition.  In one fell swoop artistry was erased from consciousness.  Boom.  That seems like a commie thing to me...