colbert and stewart
you may have noticed that i like to post youtube clips of the colbert report and the daily show, and so you may not be surprised that i am able to write a post related to the two men.
i just read the main feature in rolling stones magazine about the two men. it must have been close to 5,000 words, including the interview at the end. the slant of the article is that the two men have really become some of the most trusted names in television news even though they are only "fake news" correspondents and pundits.
in the article, stewart talks about what the current generation is doing for the younger one. he says, "I don't worry about this generation of young people. They seem to be far more sophisticated and interesting than I remember myself being at that age. I'm more worrying about my generation. We're digging such a hole for these cats, they will have to be exceptional just to get out of it."
at least he thinks we're "interesting and sophisticated." i think we're all just apathetic. sometimes i think that all young generations are living in the shadow of the generations of the sixities and seventies. maybe those young generations of the eighties didn't have much to worry about, nor of the nineties. the gulf war was quick and was in and out of the collective conscious in no time. however, those of living in today's generation, it seems that we have this large shadow. we are too apathetic to be like those of the past.
perhaps that sounds ridiculous and self-indulgent. to think that we are unique because of the current social/political/economical climate may be incorrect. but i wonder how far from true that really is?
they say to us, "well if you want to make difference go out and vote. run for office. become the next president!" i scoff at such remarks. "yeah, i'd rather not be assassinated," is one of my favorite responses.
in passing, i read somewhere a remark about the recent mid-term elections. specifically related to california. someone made a comment, maybe it was advertising an event, but essentially it poked fun at the fact that voting in california's mid-term election was pointless and was not a way to make your "voice heard," on a national level. perhaps because california is always going to lean democratic. perhaps it is because we all know that arnold is the terminator and bush is the decider and we are the hollywood sodomites (to quote colbert) who are always going to vote one way, despite the orange county conservatives attempts to disenfranchise their "minorities" voice. in a funny way, you can always count on our vote or not count on it, depending on which party you belong to.
(part 1 of 2)
i just read the main feature in rolling stones magazine about the two men. it must have been close to 5,000 words, including the interview at the end. the slant of the article is that the two men have really become some of the most trusted names in television news even though they are only "fake news" correspondents and pundits.
in the article, stewart talks about what the current generation is doing for the younger one. he says, "I don't worry about this generation of young people. They seem to be far more sophisticated and interesting than I remember myself being at that age. I'm more worrying about my generation. We're digging such a hole for these cats, they will have to be exceptional just to get out of it."
at least he thinks we're "interesting and sophisticated." i think we're all just apathetic. sometimes i think that all young generations are living in the shadow of the generations of the sixities and seventies. maybe those young generations of the eighties didn't have much to worry about, nor of the nineties. the gulf war was quick and was in and out of the collective conscious in no time. however, those of living in today's generation, it seems that we have this large shadow. we are too apathetic to be like those of the past.
perhaps that sounds ridiculous and self-indulgent. to think that we are unique because of the current social/political/economical climate may be incorrect. but i wonder how far from true that really is?
they say to us, "well if you want to make difference go out and vote. run for office. become the next president!" i scoff at such remarks. "yeah, i'd rather not be assassinated," is one of my favorite responses.
in passing, i read somewhere a remark about the recent mid-term elections. specifically related to california. someone made a comment, maybe it was advertising an event, but essentially it poked fun at the fact that voting in california's mid-term election was pointless and was not a way to make your "voice heard," on a national level. perhaps because california is always going to lean democratic. perhaps it is because we all know that arnold is the terminator and bush is the decider and we are the hollywood sodomites (to quote colbert) who are always going to vote one way, despite the orange county conservatives attempts to disenfranchise their "minorities" voice. in a funny way, you can always count on our vote or not count on it, depending on which party you belong to.
(part 1 of 2)
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