A news teaser blurbed that a Kendall Jenner commercial for Pepsi was generating controversy. Apparently, handing a cold refreshing beverage to a police officer in an advertisement is an act which necessitates social outrage with enough people for it to make the news. Social media is the liquor store next door; it is the enabler of a rampant addiction to rage. And when did nearly everything become worthy of anger? Contempt maybe, ambivalence clearly, but anger? Pepsi is just trying to sell more empty calories - junk food as my mom used to say. Thank a Capitalist as without them we'd have nothing to fret about today. Can anything happen that doesn't require someone to bitch, moan and create banal memes about.
Luckily this rage is very short lived. Cecil the lion is still quite dead, but nobody really cares any more about Minnesota dentists or hunting big cats in Africa anymore.
I'm not sure if I should be embarrassed about this, but after hearing the news story on TV while getting ready for work, I really wan't sure who Kendall Jenner was. I looked her up on Wikipedia and saw she is Bruce Jenner's daughter and something about the Kardashians - at which point I quickly lost interest. Although I seem to vaguely recall that one of the Kardashians was married to Kanye West. So Caitlyn Jenner and Kanye West could end up at the same family reunion. Do people like that have family reunions? I think not.
And if Kendall Jenner is Bruce Jenner's biological daughter, does that make him still her dad? Or is she now her mom. Maybe Family guy can sort this all out.
Again, I lose interest...
I have no interest in Pepsi as a surrogate for someone's social anxiety, the Kardashians, or pretending I'm interested in things that people who are half my age should probably not even be interested in. How is it so easy to spot the old person uncomfortably attempting to act young? The wedding a few years ago where they played The Macarena and the dance floor was filled with only young girls and middle-aged men. It was terrifying. Maybe that was another phenomenon altogether. A former coworker recently resigned; he's been convicted of some crimes and it apparently wasn't dancing The Macarena. Even the limited information I heard on that one is too much. Every time I think about it, it is quite disturbing. Yet some kind of voyeuristic stupidity compelled me to look it up on the county court web site.
Maybe Dr. Bumquist can help afterall.
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