Clinton Folly and Humanism

It would be nice if the Clinton Camp would take a lengthy vacation.  They could go to Acapulco.  If they traveled incognito maybe even George Soros could not find them.  They could drink Margaritas on the beach.  (not Acapulco Bay like the song says.  It is pretty polluted.)  Are their any white sandy beaches left on the Pacific?  If the Clintons took a nice long vacation, then maybe the remains of the Democratic Party could concede defeat in the presidential election.  As it is now we must listen to them whine nightly.  This is what politics has become in America.  Mudslinging.  It was inevitable I guess.  Jerry Springer, a former mayor, sets the example each day on network television.  How can American ideals remain pure, as the country changes so much?  This is the fundamental question that has been posed.  What has changed?  The answer is simple.  Them Internets.  When personal computers existed in labs at universities, they were regarded as a tool of academia.  Them Internets began as a connecting of data bases facilitating the development of the nuclear bomb.  It was academic.  Connecting scholarly data bases is a good idea for research.  Connecting personal home computers for the pirating of music is not.  Napster did it anyway, and shortly thereafter a thriving music industry in America died.  It was not a lengthy death.  As soon as adolescents realized you could pirate MP3's for free, it was over.  When an audio track, now an audio computer file, became available for download for free, America decided buying CD's no longer was a reasonable idea.  Paying a premium price for a studio recorded musical project became the butt of the joke.  Juggling digital music became a jubilant and rebellious practice for the youth of America. I was included to a degree.  I purchased a few recordings from iTunes, but after I realized the price was the same as buying a higher audio quality CD, I stopped.  If you buy the CD, not only do you have the CD to which to listen, you can import it onto your personal computer and then upload it to your iPod.  The consumer wins with multiple copies of his purchased music.  I don't know what the rules are today.  Apple at one point securitized their offerings, so you could not share them.  As a consumer and as an American the idea of owning my purchase seems reasonable.  We are a Capitalist community.  If I buy your album, it is mine.  The music is of course by the band, from the songwriters, and produced by the record company.  They all should get their cut from my purchase.  These terms have been thought out and well implemented for decades when the American music scene flourished.  Radio, both AM and FM, was a part of it.  Many people benefited from this system.  The system we have today only a few people benefit.  The system in America today benefits only a few, and these few are the influential cyber captains who have forged Internet commerce.  Them Internets.  This is what has changed in America, and while buying gifts from Amazon and eBay is enjoyable, undercutting large portions of the business community with piracy is criminal.  ASCAP is at war with Congress over digital copyrights.  Our federal government, incumbent, senile, narcissistic walking anachronisms continue to castrate American culture.  Pulling the strings of course are puppet masters which continue to escape public scrutiny, Rupert Murdoch being one.  Our media has become one large spin machine, literally a Big Brother, and these beings laugh and take our money.  If society as a whole decides to exploit our youth rather than educate it, there will come a time (now) when the mieda hits the fan.  Every major television network exploits the new arena of social media.  Should television news journalism have demeaned their craft for popularity?  Here is another fundamental question in America.  If talent and integrity openly and knowingly are sacrificed for popularity and this money, what remains?  With no one to monitor society, without religion or honest government, who will assure that American Capitalism will not destroy itself or be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah?  God is not happy.  American popular culture, mainly Facebook and iTunes, by sheer force have thrust their eager penises into our lives.  Their presence has unseated traditional norms like broadcast news journalism and the music industry.  Youtube, Google, and Amazon have thrust their eager penises into the art world disguised.  No matter how shiny, no matter how sparkly, and no matter how appealing immediate gratification is created by online media, it cannot replace the traditional arts.  The shortcuts that iMovie, Garage Band, and Photoshop offer us cannot and will not substitute for a thorough study of any discipline including broadcast news journalism.  The Voice, America's Got Talent, and Dancing with the Stars are entertainments.  They are entertainment offerings in the reality TV arena.  They exploit, embrace, and champion amateurism.  Tabloid news then capitalizes on their failures in the public eye.  It is very Greek, and yet the Greeks invented the humanities.  The Greek culture created and recognized areas of study which would ensure the human race an existence of integrity. No matter how hard they try, Internet commerce never will replace the traditional humanities.  Only unless we as a race decide we no longer want to be human.