It's All Gone Pete Tong

Saturday night. EdTV is on one of the channels and it pretty much sums up what's all happening today. Cameras following some average Joe around even when he's taking a crap.
These days you really don't have to do or accomplish anything to get famous, you can get famous for...eh...being famous. Here, in this little pond called Sweden, we have a handful "celebreties" that are on every tv show there is. Whether it's a dancing elimination contest or a quiz show, they're all there and the next day we can all read about it in the tabloids - who did what and to who when the cameras weren't running. It's Big News here if somebody makes out with somebody or if somebody twists his or her ancle while dancing. I don't know how, but apparently they can sell a lot of papers with headlines like that. Another popular show is the one where lonely farmers are searching for love. "Farmer Seeks Wife" is the name of the show.
It's just so stupid. Stupid and a bit sad, because it kind of diminishes us all into beings more stupid than we really are. I for one don't need to read about these things and I'm pretty sure most of us aren't if we think about it. Are there not more interesting and important things to see and learn and talk about? What is it that makes gossip so valuable?

There was a big demonstration today here in Malmö, against Israels war on the Gaza strip. Everybody is against Israel here and - hey - I'm not one who support a strong nation killing innocent people, but it seems a bit strange to totally neglect the fact that "good old Hamas" are firing missiles into Israel totally randomly, trying to kill as many as they can. I don't get it.
There's an old saying in Swedish that goes (if just translated as it is): "they are both equally good cabbage drinkers". It's a very strange saying even in Swedish, but what it means is something like "Let he who is without sin throw the first stone". What I mean is that none of the sides seem to be the better part in this - it's all gone Pete Tong.

Well, I'll hang up the laundry to dry now and then I'll enjoy a glass of white organic wine.
Cheers!