O.K. so maybe I don’t know what all of the
seven signs of the apocalypse are, but I have to believe that somewhere on the list
was the story I recently saw posted by the L.A. Times. Just the headline alone was enough to get me
thinking again about digging out a bunker in the back yard. And since that whole 2012, end of the world, Mayan
calendar thing, didn’t quite pan out, I thought, maybe THIS was what our
Mesoamerican forebears had in mind in regards to the destruction of
civilization. Anyway, the headline read…”Nude
sculpture of pregnant Kim Kardashian is coming to L.A.”
So, two shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey, a cool towel, and slamming my hand in my car door a few times and I was finally able to “snap” back to reality long enough to actually try to comprehend what I had just read. At first I thought the Times had accidentally joined two headlines into one. It could have happened…maybe a sculpture of Queen Nefertiti that had been hidden away by time in some lost ancient tomb in Egypt had been discovered. AND, on that same day, ol’ Kimmie K. was on her way to Los Angeles for some special event or give yet another ridiculous interview about her soon to be baby, her looks, her family, her husband, her ex-husband, or some other pointless reason to want to know what she has to say about anything. Now don’t get me wrong…I don’t dislike the girl. I am sure she is a nice person. Besides I don’t know her personally. So really I am not going after her. In fact, if the world wanted to make me a reality star for no reason and throw endorsement deals my way and put me on the cover of every trashy supermarket magazine, I would certainly play along too (until I had amassed enough money of course)! So you really can’t blame the girl.
Who really is the enemy of my feelings about a Kim K. sculpture? I am torn. Am I angry at “Michelangelo” here for finding Ms. Kardashian so “inspirational” that it drove him to create his chef d'oeuvre (masterpiece)? Am I angry at the L.A. Times for using the resources of the press to print such a story? Am I angry at myself for having read the story? Yes, my eyes still burn. Am I angry in advance at those who will actually stop to see, touch and photograph the sculpture? Or am I just angry at society in general for making Kimmie a celebrity in the first place? Well, regardless of the answer, the point is that we now live in a society where our politicians feel very entitled to the citizen’s money; where the citizens do not care as much as they should, as so long as they have some sort of distraction happening on TV (or at the Colosseum); and where we are now creating sculptures of our “idols” to be placed in the large cities for all to see and worship. My friends (Romans) and countrymen…it seems to me, history has seen this type of behavior before. And in case you didn’t pay much attention in school, the outcome of this behavior was less than favorable for all involved.
So in the end, is this a warning sign of an impending Rome like collapse of our society? Is it one of the seven signs of the apocalypse? All I know is that back on May 31st, we had a huge asteroid fly pretty darn close to the earth right around the same time I first spotted the story of the Kardashian sculpture. So all things considered, I just might keep my bunker idea an option I keep open.
I’ll see you in the groves
-Tony
