Tales of Ice T and the Cheeseburger Monster

In case you missed it, Yahoo featured news articles about Ice T's presidential prediction and Paula Deen scarfing down a cheese burger.

Social media, politics and the internet all have one thing in common: they do very well reflecting the worst of humanity as a mirror would reflect all horror of a fat person in skinny clothes. Has our society really sunk so low that we'd be interested in what a washed up rapper has to say about politics? Or that some poor cooking personality with fat person diabetes is eating food that is bad for them?

Perhaps the issue is a little more complex. Perhaps we, as an online society, are known to be into some stupid shit so now internet purveyors of news and other social discourse are simply supplying us with more stupid shit.

I don't need to know that Deen was eating a cheese burger and had fries on her plate. I don't need to know that she is putting another nail in her coffin. The fact that she has a cooking show and that Anthony Bourdain considers her the worst and most irresponsible cooking personality on TV is of no importance to me. I do need to know why her food choices are relevant to me.

I don't need to know that Ice-T and his wife are making a movie. I don't need to know that Ice-T opines about Hillary Clinton being a G or that he's making his directing debut. It's mildly amusing to know that Ice-T hasn't had a gold or platinum record since 1993. I need to know why Ice-T is relevant today and, on a side note, why his wife thinks it's cool to be orange.

What you may have missed out on was there was a new study published about the correlation of low IQ, conservative beliefs being linked to prejudice. Studies, in my opinion, are a lot of guess work based on extensive observation with a preconceived notion (read that as "hypothesis"). Typically, this is called the scientific process, but in most cases, it is a sham depending on the motives of those involved. Henceforth in this post, low IQ will be called an idiocy.

There is a definite, non-scientific link between idiocy and prejudice. People who don't know better and are bigots, statistically speaking, will balance out the idiots who think everything and everyone is wonderful. Though I disagree with the underlying, implied results (Yahoo spins it one way while the researchers totally contradict Yahoo's spin), this kind of "news" is far more important than Paul's cheese burger or Ice T's directing debut (and orange wife).

In everything you read or hear, question the motives of the source. If you are not, you are contributing to stupidity.