Assignment 5- Neil McGinley

I personally watch whatever comes on I’m a big fan of “How It’s Made,” it is about as mindless as tv can be, but it also makes you feel smart so... it’s pretty great. But I also like, we’ll see it’s hard to describe, but I like to watch the tv with so little mental investment that I don’t actually know what I’m watching. Like those 4 hour long vacuum commercials. Yeah those work great. My point is I biased in favor of the mindless consumers of television. So take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt.
The reason Nobel prizes are casually announced is because no one cares. Why should they? Does the average person want a nobel prize? No. Does the average person want to be dropped of in an elegant dress by a rolls royce? Yes. Yes they do. I do and I don’t even like dresses. We watch tv because it makes us feel less insignificant, because it numbs how much everything sucks. We don’t want to hear about the people working as hard as they can to save the planet on TV. We came here to forget our planet needed saving. That’s why we like the Emmy’s. Why doesn’t the news cover nobel prizes? Cause it doesn’t pay. People don’t care about them so people don’t watch them so advertisers can’t advertise so it makes no sense to cover them. I probably sound pretty cold and uncaring but I’m attempting to tell this story from the view of the economy. And what is colder than that am I right?

Thank you, that is all.