Originally Posted by d-null

today I experienced a small event that I thought was profound....


I was at a fast type restaurant and the news channel was on a big screen tv, and there was a couple of girls, maybe 20 to 25 years old sitting at a nearby table eating....

the news was pretty intense, some important stories about a soldier getting killed in Afghanistan and the economy and health care, etc....

the two girls were completely undistracted by the television as the news stories went by, then all of the sudden there was a story about Jessica Simpson getting dumped by her boyfriend..... instantly the two girls stopped all eating and talking and focused on the television as if the most important world changing news story had just come on, and remained focused through the whole Jessica Simpson story, after which they went back to their conversation.......


.... at that moment, I couldn't help feeling a little bit disturbed about the world we live in