MC 9/26

Yeah, you read that date right. I'm 3 posts behind where I should be. Prepare yourself for three MC posts in a row:

So, culture today is infecting everything with sameness. No freaking way. Let me tell you something, Horkheimer and Adorno: The cast of Laguna Beach are about as unique and individualistic as they come. Sure, they may dress, talk (with an excrutiating increase in the use of "like" and "ohmigod") and act in the same painfully boring-yet-I-can't-stop-watching manner but at least they differ in, uh, facial features? The personality of the cast members may in fact be indistinguishable from each other but hey, maybe there's difference in the shade of their toenail polish (Pearl Pink and Salmon Shimmer?).

Laguna Beach has developed into a deep love/hate viewing experience for me. I love the show for its entertainment value (and by entertainment I mean the same kind I get from watching a bear ride a unicycle) and I despise the show because of its ability to influence the demographic its targeting: gullible 13-18 year old middle class dreamers. Laguna Beach is a reality show based on privileged, bratty, white beach babies who gossip about whether Cami and Tess are truly friends or Jason's latest crush (if anyone can explain to me why this loser is still around, I'd appreciate it). If Laguna Beach is real, than what world am I living in? Where's the beach bonfires and the drama and the mansions and inappropriately inflated ego?

The cast of Laguna Beach Season 3 are no different than previous seasons in that they are all inflated, fake, scripted characters. Not only is Laguna Beach a sorry, highly stylized version of life in "The Real Orange County" (a simulacra of the worst kind) but it promotes this concept of sameness. One: that kids with Mommy and Daddy's money will all act this way and two: that kids without Mommy and Daddy's money should act this way.

Don't even get me started on MTV's boohoo-fest show True Life. Here's a sales pitch for another episode, True Life: What You're Seeing is Not True