On never listening to yourself

People with a half a brain left should seriously consider pulling the

    plug on radio and TV. Along with the stupid,obnoxious commercials, you

    are getting mostly PURE POISON.

       While listening to one of those inane talk-back shows one beautiful

    Fall afternoon, I suddenly asked myself: " When do people listen to

    THEMSELVES ?"

       At the same time I spotted a pedestrian with those foolish looking

    ear phones covering his ears. " No , he was not listening to himself ", I

    concluded.

        I played with the radio dial: sports and more sports, numerous

    crackpot " born again " preachers, a big fat right winger fulminating

    on the evils of BIG GOVERNMENT, Kevin Trudeau in an infomercial telling

    people they can read " Crime and Punishment " in fifteen minutes, mediocre

    pop music passed off as " the greatest music of all time ", how to

    convert $5000 into $50,000 overnight.

       What would H.L Mencken say about all this ?

     Do we perhaps live in one of the most stupefying societies of all time ?

      Is there a real conspiracy out there to keep people from discovering

    just hoe
       how meaningless their life is ?